Author Walter Mosley has been chosen as the 2016 Grand Master
by the Mystery Writers of America, and will receive the award at the 70th annual Edgar Awards Banquet in New York City on April 28, 2016.
He was recently chosen as the 2016 Grand Master
by the Mystery Writers of America.
Edgar Awards are presented
by the Mystery Writers of America and are widely acknowledged to be the most prestigious awards in the genre.
James Lee Burke, a rare winner of two Edgar Awards, and named Grand Master
by the Mystery Writers of America, is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels and two collections of short stories.
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year
by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City.
Grafton has been named a Grand Master
by Mystery Writers of America and is a recipient of the Ross MacDonald Literary... Read More
The 2017 Edgar Awards, honoring the best mysteries and thrillers and presented every year
by the Mystery Writers of America, have been announced!
The Edgars are awarded annually
by the Mystery Writers of America.
The 2018 Edgar Awards have been announced
by Mystery Writers of America, celebrating the best mystery fiction, nonfiction and television of 2017.
Her many awards include the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writers» Association (2002), Gold Dagger Award for Blacklist by the Crime Writers» Association (2004), Anthony award Lifetime Achievement award (2011) and Grand Master
by the Mystery Writers of America (2011).
It was an exciting night in New York when the winners of the 2014 Edgar Awards were announced
by the Mystery Writers of America at a gala celebration last month.
Writers Award, and have been nominated for the Edgar, bestowed
by Mystery Writers of America.
They have won two Shamus Awards, two Anthony awards, the International Thriller Writers Award, and have been nominated for the Edgar, bestowed
by Mystery Writers of America.
Three of Leonard's books have been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award
by the Mystery Writers of America: The Switch, nominated for Best Original Paperback Novel of 1978; Split Images, for Best Novel of 1981; and LaBrava, which won for Best Novel in 1983.
Mary Higgins Clark was chosen
by Mystery Writers of America as Grand Master of the 2000 Edgar Awards.
An annual Mary Higgins Clark Award sponsored by Simon & Schuster, to be given to authors of suspense fiction writing in the Mary Higgins Clark tradition, was launched
by Mystery Writers of America during Edgars week in April 2001.
Heartstone, his first novel, was nominated for an Edgar for best original paperback mystery of 1978
by the Mystery Writers of America.
Walter Mosley was chosen as the 2016 Grand Master
by the Mystery Writers of America.
«Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane» (39:38) is a condensed new cut of a 1998 documentary on author Mickey Spillane directed
by mystery writer Max Allan Collins (the author of Road to Perdition's source graphic novel and assorted film novelizations).
Based on a novel
by mystery writer Ruth Rendell, Live Flesh begins in flashback with pregnant Isabel Plaza Caballero (Penelope Cruz) giving birth on a Madrid city bus.
Best in Shelter, a nonprofit organization created
by mystery writer Martha Grimes is pleased to announce its 2015 virtual show.
Not exact matches
It may seem incongruous to review a book
by a reigning Pope alongside a novel
by a
writer famed for her Vampire Chronicles, but both bring us face to face with the
mystery of the Incarnation.
In one of her previous
mysteries, A Fountain Filled with Blood, she succeeded at a feat that's been the ruin of many lesser
writers, plunging headfirst into a current social issue (homophobia) without being swept away
by it.
I have a deep fondness for
mystery novels written
by English
writers, many of them female.
Each issue delivers stories of
mystery and suspense
by some of today's leading
mystery writers.
Mann's approach here reminds me of the formulation recently expressed
by writer and director Paul Schrader — some filmmakers understand character as an instrument of elucidation, while others (Schrader meant himself and Martin Scorsese) see it as an instrument of
mystery.
Captivated
by the author's words of love, she returns to her job at the Tribune where she convinces her boss to run an article about the
mystery writer, known only as «G.» He approves, and Theresa begins her hunt.
In Dark Places,
writer / director Gilles Paquet - Brenner has gotten the first part right (kind of) but totally bungled the second, resulting in a boring, soulless, paint -
by - numbers
mystery that never clicks or finds its footing.
While there's now a lot of answers, the
writers are pushing on the
mystery of «Croatan», which
by the quick search on Google reveal is a Native American tribe that may or may not have been in alliance with the Roanokans.
While the malleable allegory of the film's events — a woman and her
writer husband live in an Edenic country house that spirals into infernal chaos — has fueled both love - or - hate reactions and directorial marketing, I was riveted
by the heedless spectacle and totally enveloping film technique, all anchored in Jennifer Lawrence's sometimes baffling commitment to a character driven to distraction
by her husband (Javier Bardem), his
mystery guests (deliciously entitled Michelle Pfeiffer, Ed Harris), and much, much more.
Sure it has one of the most amazing casts assembled in recent years (Branagh, Cruz, Depp, Dafoe, Dench, Gad, Pfeiffer and Ridley) and a lush production, but ultimately the story gets bogged down as a
mystery, as it is arrogantly solved
by writer / director / star Kenneth Branagh.
However, the debut
by writer / director Rian Johnson works because of his dogged insistence to play it straight and let the audience find their way through the archaic dialogue to the
mystery at the core.
Writer - director Shane Black's horribly enjoyable action comedy The Nice Guys is an jauntily arch return to this tradition, the story of two dishevelled and incompetent private detectives in 1970s Los Angeles — played
by Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling — who have been expensively tasked with solving the
mystery surrounding the death of a missing porn actress, and what other kind of fascinatingly damaged female character can there be?
Nicole Holofcener, well - known for putting women front and center in numerous astute indies like Lovely & Amazing and Enough Said, adapted the screenplay from the novel
by award - winning
mystery writer Laura Lippman.
Script
by Donald Ogden Stewart and
mystery writer Elliot Paul.
Such is the microcosm at the center of Jean Renoir's Night at the Crossroads, a stunning
mystery thriller based on the novel
by Georges Simenon, one of the greatest of all detective
writers.
The film's
mystery, conceived
by Loverboy scribe Hannah Shakespeare and veteran bit player turned first - time
writer Ben Livingston, is adequately compelling and lends to the moody, foggy treatment that V for Vendetta director James McTeigue gives it.
«The Madness, Misery, and
Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe» (9:50) focuses on the real author, with biographical remarks from Poe museum curator Chris Semtner and St. Christopher's School
writer in residence Ron Smith complemented
by old photographs and documents, abundant clips from the film, and brief remarks from the screenwriters.
Executive produced
by «The Sixth Sense»
writer / director M. Night Shyamalan, «Wayward Pines» is a
mystery drama with an all - star cast that includes Matt Dillon, Carla Gugino, Melissa Leo, Toby Jones, Juliette Lewis and Terrence Howard.
We uncover these
mystery's with recently successful
writer Juliet Ashton played
by Lily James who's bubbly performance is just right for the quaintness of post-war Britain.
Founded
by Robert Randisi and Ed Gorman in the late 1980s to bring together professional
mystery authors in a private forum to exchange ideas, the American Crime
Writers League is still going strong in the 21st century as a writing organization for serious and proven writers of mystery f
Writers League is still going strong in the 21st century as a writing organization for serious and proven
writers of mystery f
writers of
mystery fiction.
Jan is the co-editor of Murder Past, Murder Present, a
mystery anthology
by award - winning, best - selling
mystery author members of the American Crime
Writers League.
In a July 2009 review for BookPage, Schneider wrote of When You Reach Me: «What could be better: a great setting, believable characters and a
mystery deftly woven
by a fine
writer.
(Also, any show that had established
mystery writers George Pelecanos, Dennis Lehane, and Richard Price churning out the scripts is certainly okay
by me.)
Founded 15 years ago
by bestselling
mystery writer Archer Mayor, independent publisherAMPress specializes in the
mystery genre.
R. Barri Flowers is the editor of Murder Past, Murder Present, a
mystery anthology
by award - winning, best - selling
mystery author members of the American Crime
Writers League.
By the way, Margot has a fantastic blog for
mystery readers and
writers — https://margotkinberg.wordpress.com/.
Jan is the co-editor of Murder Past, Murder Present, a
mystery collection titled,
by award - winning, best - selling
mystery author members of the American Crime
Writers League.
Her first foray into storytelling was the short story «Night Rose,» chosen
by international best - selling author Jeffery Deaver for inclusion in the
Mystery Writers of America anthology A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime.
Writer of the Year finalist Gwen Florio, interviewed
by Natasha Watts, talks about her writing influences, the differences and similarities between journalism and writing fiction, her most recent
mystery releases and her novel Silent Hearts, set to release in July.