Annal:2004 Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Agatha Award in the year 2004. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors
- Mystery/Suspense books
- Mystery/Suspense authors.
Private Eye-Lashes: Radio's Lady Detectives
- 2004 Agatha–Nonfiction winner
- Score: 10.54
In this book, Jack French relates fascinating facts about the famous lady crime-solvers (Nora Charles, Candy Matson, Jane Sherlock) but he also tracks down the obscure ones (Susan Bright, Helen Holden, and The Lady in Blue, etc.) He traces the origin of these radio series, whether in pulp fiction, film, mystery novels, or comic books.
“Jack French has brought to the foreground many of the ladies who worked alongside their more famous male partners, and those who worked alone, in relative obscurity and were long forgotten. We learn about who these women were…
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: Vol 1 and 2. The Complete Short Stories
Leslie S. Klinger, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- 2005 Edgar-Critical/Biography winner
- 2005 Anthony-Critical nominee
- 2005 Macavity-Nonfiction nominee
- 2004 Agatha–Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 28.55
A cause for international celebration—the most important Sherlock Holmes publication in four decades.
This monumental edition promises to be the most important new contribution to Sherlock Holmes literature since William Baring-Gould’s 1967 classic work. In this boxed set, Leslie Klinger, a leading world authority, reassembles Arthur Conan Doyle’s 56 classic short stories in the order in which they appeared in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century book editions. Inside, readers will find a cornucopia of insights: beginners will benefit from Klinger’s…
