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March , April 1998 No.9


第九号

編集・発行:天野 貴司

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お知らせ  
  1. ハメット・バースディ・ディナーのお知らせ

  2.  今年最初の関東例会となる、「ハメット・バースディ・ディナー」が 5月30日(土)に開かれます。場所はいつもの代々木「オリエンタル・ムーン」で午後7時から。ゲスト等は全くの未定ですが、参加希望者は5月28日迄に連絡をお願いします。

  3. 「ファルコン賞」選出開始

  4.  「ファルコン賞」の選出が始まりました。投票はまだ受け付けております。
     会報163号に取り敢えずの作品リストが載っておりますが、昨年に出版され、 これぞ私のベストハードボイルド小説と思う作品であれば何でもOKです。
     是非とも投票をお願い致します。

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エドガー賞発表

 木村二郎氏から1998年エドガー賞の結果が届きました。
 受賞の模様など詳しい内容はThe Gumshoe Siteにて。

1998 Edgar Allan Poe Award Winners

Grand Master Award:
Barbara Mertz (aka Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels)

Best Novel
CIMARRON ROSE by James Lee Burke (Hyperion)

Best First Novel by an American Author
LOS ALAMOS by Joseph Kanon (Broadway Books)

Best Paperback Original
CHARM CITY by Laura Lippman (Avon)

Best Critical/Biographical
"G" IS FOR GRAFTON: THE WORLD OF KINSEY MILLHONE by Natalie Hevener Kaufman
and Carol McGinnis Kay (Henry Holt & Co.)

Best Fact Crime
THE DEATH OF INNOCENTS by Richard Firstman and Jamie Talan (Bantam)

Best Short Story
"KELLER ON THE SPOT" by Lawrence Block (Playboy Magazine/Nov.)

Best Young Adult
GHOST CANOE by Will Hobbs (Morrow Junior Books)

Best Juvenile
SPARROWS IN THE SCULLERY by Barbara Brooks Wallace (Atheneum)

Best Episode in a Television Series
"DOUBLE DOWN" story by Richard Sweren and Shimon Wincelberg, teleplay by EdZuckerman and Shimon Wincelberg (Law & Order/NBC)

Best Television Feature or Miniseries
BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS by John Milne (SILENT WITNESS/A & E)

Best Motion Picture
L.A. CONFIDENTIAL screenplay by Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (Warner Bros.)

Best Play
A RED DEATH, stage adaptation by David Barr

Ellery Queen Award (to honor writing teams and outstanding people in themystery-publishing industry)
Hiroshi Hayakawa, editor of Hayakawa's Mystery Magazine (the major Japanesemystery magazine)

Robert L Fish Award (for the best first short story by an American author)
"If Thine Eye Offend Thee" by Rosalind Roland, in Murder x 13 (Crown ValleyPress)

Raven (for outstanding achievement in the mystery field outside the realmof creative writing)
Sylvia Burack

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アガサ賞発表

 木村二郎氏経由にて1997年アガサ賞の結果が届きました。
 詳しい内容はThe Gumshoe Siteにて。

Malice Domestic announced the winners of the 1997 Agatha Awards given atthe banquet on Saturday, May 02.

Best Novel: THE DEVIL IN MUSIC, by Kate Ross (Viking)

Best First Novel: THE SALARYMAN'S WIFE, by Sujata Massey (Harper Paperbacks)

Best Non-Fiction: DETECTING MEN POCKET GUIDE, by Willetta Heising(PurpleMoon Press)

Best Short Story: "Tea for Two" by M. D. Lake (in FUNNY BONES; Signet)

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アンソニー賞ノミネート

 木村二郎氏から1998年アンソニー賞ノミネート作が届きました。
 詳しい内容はThe Gumshoe Siteにて。

Bouchercon '98 has announced the 1998 Anthony Award Nominees:

Best Novel:

Devil's Food by Anthony Bruno (Tor/Forge)
Deception Pass by Earl Emerson (Ballantine)
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte (Harcourt Brace)
No Colder Place by S.J. Rozan (St. Martin's Press)
Eye of the Cricket by James Sallis (Walker)

Best First Novel:

The Killing Floor (sic) by Lee Child (Putnam)
If I Should Die by Grace Edwards (Doubleday)
Except the Dying by Maureen Jennings (St. Martin's Press)
Bird Dog by Philip Reed (Pocket Books)
Skin Deep, Blood Red by Robert Skinner (Kensington)

Best Paperback Orginal

Charm City by Laura Lippman (Avon)
The Salaryman's Wife by Sujata Massey (Harper Collins)
Big Red Tequila by Rick Riordan (Bantam)
Time Release by Martin J. Smith (Jove)
23 Shades of Black by K.j.a. Wishnia (The Imaginery Press)

Best Short Story:

Ways to Kill a Cat by Simon Brett (Malice Domestic 6/Pocket Books)
A Fog of Many Colors by James DeFilippi (New Mystery Magazine Summer '97)
Paperboxing Art by James Dorr (New Mystery Magazine Summer '97)
Front Row Seat by Jan Grape (Vengeance is Hers/Signet)
One Bag of Coconuts by Edward D. Hoch (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 11/97)

Best Cover Art:

Night Dogs by Kent Anderson; Artist: Michael Kellner (Dennis McMillan)
Family Values by K.C. Constantine; Artist: Doug Fraser (Mysterious Press)
The Bum's Rush by G.M. Ford; Artist: Krystyna Skalski (Walker)
Fruitcake by Jane Rubino; Artist: Gail Cross (Write Way Publishing)
Virgin Heat by Laurence Shames; Artist: Victor Weaver (Hyperion)

The winners will be announced at Bouchercon in Philadelphia on Sunday, October 04.

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今月の収穫 By 天野 香介
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編集後記

 やっと1998年の二号目の第九号です。

 また合併号になってしまいました。一年ほどの出張生活が終わり、やっとこれで通常の読書生活に戻れると思っていたのですが、なかなか元の生活パターンが取り戻せず、リハビリ状態となっております。
 今月は、木村仁良氏からの提供でアメリカの賞関連の情報をたくさん頂きました。さて、これらの作品は早ければ年内にも訳出されるでしょうから、非常に楽しみであります。(出版社さんに期待)
 では、また次号で。

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