Nero Award
The Nero Award is a literary award for excellence in the mystery genre presented by The Wolfe Pack, a society founded in 1978 to explore and celebrate the Nero Wolfe stories of Rex Stout. The Nero Award is presented annually at the Black Orchid Banquet, traditionally held on the first Saturday in December in New York City.
Winners
Year | Title | Author | Reference |
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1979 | The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling | Lawrence Block | |
1980 | Burn This | Helen McCloy | |
1981 | Death in a Tenured Position | Amanda Cross | |
1982 | Past, Present and Murder | Hugh Pentecost | |
1983 | The Anodyne Necklace | Martha Grimes | [1] |
1984 | Emily Dickinson is Dead | Jane Langton | |
1985 | Sleeping Dog | Dick Lochte | |
1986 | Murder in E Minor | Robert Goldsborough | |
1987 | The Corpse in Oozak’s Pond | Charlotte MacLeod | |
1988 1989 1990 | no award presented | ||
1991 | Coyote Waits | Tony Hillerman | [2] |
1992 | A Scandal in Belgravia | Robert Barnard | |
1993 | Booked to Die | John Dunning | |
1994 | Old Scores | Aaron Elkins | [2] |
1995 | She Walks These Hills | Sharyn McCrumb | |
1996 | A Monstrous Regiment of Women | Laurie R. King | [2] |
1997 | The Poet | Michael Connelly | [2] |
1998 | Sacred | Dennis Lehane | [2] |
1999 | The Bone Collector | Jeffery Deaver | |
2000 | Coyote Revenge | Fred Harris | |
2001 | Sugar House | Laura Lippman | |
2002 | The Deadhouse | Linda Fairstein | |
2003 | Winter and Night | S. J. Rozan | |
2004 | Fear Itself | Walter Mosley | [2] |
2005 | The Enemy | Lee Child | [3] |
2006 | Vanish | Tess Gerritsen | [2] |
2007 | All Mortal Flesh | Julia Spencer-Fleming | |
2008 | Anatomy of Fear | Jonathan Santlofer | |
2009 | The Tenth Case | Joseph Teller | [4] |
2010 | Faces of the Gone | Brad Parks | [5] |
2011 | Bury Your Dead | Louise Penny | [6][7] |
2012 | Though Not Dead | Dana Stabenow | [8][9] |
2013 | Dead Anyway | Chris Knopf | [10] |
2014 | Murder as a Fine Art | David Morrell | [11] |
2015 | Peter Pan Must Die | John Verdon | [12] |
2016 | Night Life | David C. Taylor | [13] |
2017 | With Six You Get Wally | Al Lamanda | [14] |
2018 | August Snow | Stephen Mack Jones | [15] |
2019 | Down the River unto the Sea | Walter Mosley | [16] |
2020 | One Good Deed | David Baldacci | [17] |
2021 | Fortune Favors the Dead | Stephen Spotswood | [18] |
2022 | Tower of Babel | Michael Sears | [19] |
References
- ^ Wexler, Ellyn (2013-04-17). "North Bethesda welcomes literature's mystery maven". Maryland Gazette. Archived from the original on 2013-10-04. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
- ^ a b c d e f g Elizabeth Haynes (2011-01-19). Crime Writers: A Research Guide. pp. 75, 44, 85, 30, 88, 110 & 56 respectively. ISBN 978-1591589143. LCCN 2010047200. OCLC 657596152. OL 24903387M. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
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- ^ "Wolfe Pack Nero Award Recipients". The Wolfe Pack. 2013-04-17. Retrieved 2013-12-12.
- ^ "Congratulations to David Morrell!!!". The Poisoned Pen. 2014-12-14.
- ^ Lynch, Jeremy (2015-12-07). "Peter Pan Must Die wins the 2015 Nero Award". Crimespree Magazine.
- ^ "Wolfe Pack Nero Award Recipients". The Wolfe Pack. 2016-12-04. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
- ^ "Wolfe Pack Nero Award Recipients". The Wolfe Pack. 2017-12-02. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
- ^ "Wolfe Pack Nero Award Recipients". The Wolfe Pack. 2018-12-01. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
- ^ "Wolfe Pack Nero Award Recipients". The Wolfe Pack. 2019-12-07. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
- ^ "Wolfe Pack Nero Award Recipients". The Wolfe Pack. 2019-12-07. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
- ^ "Wolfe Pack Nero Award Recipients". The Wolfe Pack. 2023-03-23. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
- ^ "Wolfe Pack Nero Award Recipients". The Wolfe Pack. 2023-03-23. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
External links
- Official website
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- Nero Wolfe
- Archie Goodwin
- Nero Wolfe supporting characters
- Fer-de-Lance (1934)
- The League of Frightened Men (1935)
- The Rubber Band (1936)
- The Red Box (1937)
- Too Many Cooks (1938)
- Some Buried Caesar (1939)
- Over My Dead Body (1940)
- Where There's a Will (1940)
- The Silent Speaker (1946)
- Too Many Women (1947)
- And Be a Villain (1948)
- The Second Confession (1949)
- In the Best Families (1950)
- Murder by the Book (1951)
- Prisoner's Base (1952)
- The Golden Spiders (1953)
- The Black Mountain (1954)
- Before Midnight (1955)
- Might as Well Be Dead (1956)
- If Death Ever Slept (1957)
- Champagne for One (1958)
- Plot It Yourself (1959)
- Too Many Clients (1960)
- The Final Deduction (1961)
- Gambit (1962)
- The Mother Hunt (1963)
- A Right to Die (1964)
- The Doorbell Rang (1965)
- Death of a Doxy (1966)
- The Father Hunt (1968)
- Death of a Dude (1969)
- Please Pass the Guilt (1973)
- A Family Affair (1975)
short stories
- "Bitter End" (1940)
- "Black Orchids" (1941)
- "Cordially Invited to Meet Death" (1942)
- "Not Quite Dead Enough" (1942)
- "Booby Trap" (1944)
- "Help Wanted, Male" (1945)
- "Instead of Evidence" (1946)
- "Before I Die" (1947)
- "Man Alive" (1947)
- "Bullet for One" (1948)
- "Omit Flowers" (1948)
- "Door to Death" (1949)
- "The Gun with Wings" (1949)
- "Disguise for Murder" (1950)
- "The Cop-Killer" (1951)
- "The Squirt and the Monkey" (1951)
- "Home to Roost" (1952)
- "This Won't Kill You" (1952)
- "Invitation to Murder" (1953)
- "The Zero Clue" (1953)
- "When a Man Murders" (1954)
- "Die Like a Dog" (1954)
- "The Next Witness" (1955)
- "Immune to Murder" (1955)
- "A Window for Death" (1956)
- "Too Many Detectives" (1956)
- "Christmas Party" (1957)
- "Easter Parade" (1957)
- "Fourth of July Picnic" (1957)
- "Murder Is No Joke" (1958), expanded as "Frame-Up for Murder" (1958)
- "Method Three for Murder" (1960)
- "Poison à la Carte" (1960)
- "The Rodeo Murder" (1960)
- "Counterfeit for Murder" (1961)
- "Death of a Demon" (1961)
- "Kill Now—Pay Later" (1961)
- "Eeny Meeny Murder Mo" (1962)
- "Blood Will Tell" (1963)
- "Murder Is Corny" (1964)
- "Assault on a Brownstone" (1985, posthumously published early draft of "Counterfeit for Murder")
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Robert Goldsborough
- Murder in E Minor (1986)
- Death on Deadline (1987)
- Fade to Black (1990)
- Black Orchid Novella Award
- Nero Award
- The Wolfe Pack