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"Citizen Vince" wins Edgar Allan Poe mystery writing award for best novel

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20060501
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AP Worldstream
05-01-2006
Dateline: NEW YORK
Mystery solved. The winners of the 2006 Edgar Allan Poe Awards have been announced.

The Edgar for best novel went to "Citizen Vince." Whodunit? Author Jess Walter; it's his third novel.

The award for best first novel by an American author was won by "Officer Down," by Theresa Schwegel.

Mystery Writers of America presented the Edgars, honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction, television and film published or produced last year, at a Manhattan banquet on Thursday.

The other winners were:

Paperback original, "Girl in the Glass," by Jeffrey Ford.

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