Finally, it’s out! Yup! The 2007 Edgar Allan Poe award for best play has been announced and the winner is Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, by Steven Dietz. Another work which won the award having the same fictional detective was The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear. It won the won the award for best critical/biographical book.
The best novel of 2007 is Jason Goodwin’s The Janissary Tree and the winner for best first novel by an American author was Alex Berenson’s The Faithful Spy. The Edgar awards are presented by Mystery Writers of America, a New York-based organization for mystery and crime writers, fans and professionals, honour the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television and film. The Edgars has been circling since 1946. The award is given annually. Edgar Allan Poe, the benefactor of MWA, was a writer of fiction known for his macabre tales.
Other winners were:
Paperback original, Snakeskin Shamisen, by Naomi Hirahara.
Fact crime, Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, by James L. Swanson.
The best short story was won by The Home Front, in Death Do Us Part, by Charles Ardai.
Best juvenile, Room One: A Mystery or Two, by Andrew Clements.
Best young adult, Buried, by Robin Merrow MacCready.
Best television episode teleplay was given to Life on Mars - Episode 1, by Matthew Graham.
Best television feature/miniseries teleplay was awarded to The Wire, Season 4. The teleplay was by Ed Burns, Kia Corthron, Dennis Lehane, David Mills, Eric Overmyer, George Pelecanos, Richard Prise, David Simon and William F. Zorzi.
Best motion picture screenplay for The Departed. Screenplay by William Monahan.
Source: USAToday
