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Detective work pays // Poe prize to honor deserving paperback originals on Friday
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19860504
Author:Virginia Van Vynckt
Reviewers of mysteries have so many hardcover books to wade through that original paperbacks, unless they're by big-name authors, usually are pushed aside. Readers, meanwhile, keep buying paperback originals because if they're going to gamble, they'd rather gamble with $3 than $15.
That is why I am devoting this column to the five books nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original. The Edgars, to be presented Friday at a gala dinner in New York, are the Mystery Writers of America's equivalent of Oscars.
And the nominees for best paperback original are: Black Gravity, ...
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