Mark,
Re your question below:
> This makes me curious about the Edgars:
first
> novels don't have to be
> first novels? They don't take pseudonyms
into
> account? That's actually
> kind of amusing. I picture an author like
Donald
> Westlake winning 8 or
> 9 of them, or a battle between 5 writers who
have
> decades of experience
> among them.
For many years, the Edgar for Best First Mystery Novel didn't
necessarily have to be for a first novel, just for a first
MYSTERY novel.
This is why Gregory McDonald was eligible to win in this
category for FLETCH in 1975, despite having been the author
of the straight novel RUNNING SCARED in 1964. And also why
Dennis's military novel, COMBAT SOLDIER, didn't make ACT OF
FEAR ineligible despite having been published several years
earlier.
I believe the rules have since been changed so that it has to
actually be a first novel.
There have also been at least two authors who have won the
First Novel Edgar despite having written mystery novels under
other names prior to the books that won them the award.
Presumably, the MWA was unaware of this.
Since COMBAT SOLDIER has come up, it seems appropriate to
remind Rara-Avians, this being Memorial Day, that Dennis
recently arranged for Iuniverse to publish a reprint edition
of his first-ever book-length work.
JIM DOHERTY
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