Вручение 1988 г.
Страна: Великобритания
Дата проведения: 1988 г.
Золотой Кинжал
Лауреат
Michael Dibdin
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Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen has crossed swords with the establishment before - and lost. From the depths of a mundane desk job in Rome he is unexpectedly transferred to Perugia to take over a kidnapping case involving one of Italy's most powerful families. Gold Dagger Award winner.
Robert Barnard
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Upstairs, in the room looking out to sea, the old man dictates wills, leaving things he no longer has to friends who are long dead. His children, who look after him, can cope with his senility, and thought there was nothing more to learn about his erratic life-style.
When Roderick Cotterel hears from his illegitimate half-sister he is intrigued, even charmed: she is the daughter of his father, the distinguished novelist Benedict Cotterel, by the famous actress Myra Mason. She is writing a book about her mother, and is looking for material. The affair between the two had been a gutter press sensation back in the 'sixties, but the embers have long since cooled. However, when Cordelia and her boyfriend arrive and begin research for the book both Roderick and his wife begin to have doubts. And when their peaceful Sussex village is threatened by a visit from an almost suspiciously friendly Myra Mason, they realize they have got into something from which it would require superhuman delicacy and tact to extricate themselves. In the event somebody solves their problems in a way that is neither tactful nor delicate, though it certainly is final.
Celia Dale
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When Grace met Janice in Holloway Prison, she realized that Janice was a natural for her latest scheme. Posing as representatives of the Social Services Agency, they visit elderly people, promising increased pensions because of bureaucratic mistakes. While Grace chats with them, Janice makes them a nice cup of tea--thoughtfully adding some sleeping pills. When the victim falls asleep, the two women make off with all of his or her treasures. It seems like a good con--until old Miss Frimwell is found dead of an overdoes. Then detective Wally Simpson gets involved, becoming enraged as the pattern of their crimes emerges. But in a surprise ending, he discovers that he is more intimately involved with the scheme than he could ever have imagined...
Reginald Hill
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'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday When young Tracey Pedley vanished in the woods around Burrthorpe, the close-knit community had their own ideas about what had happened, but Deputy Chief Constable Watmough has it down as the work of a child-killer who has since committed suicide -- though others wondered about the last man to see her alive and his fatal plunge into the disused mine shaft. Returning to a town he left in anger, Colin Farr's homecoming is ready for trouble, and when a university course brings him into contact with Ellie Pascoe, trouble starts! Meanwhile Andy Daziel mutters imprecations on the sidelines, until a murder in Burrthorpe mine forces him to take action that brings him up against a hostile and frightened community!
Серебряный Кинжал
Лауреат
Сара Парецки
2.3
Роман современной американской писательницы Сары Парецки "Смертельный удар" - детективное расследование деятельности чикагской промышленной мафия, блестяще проведенное женщиной-детективом Ви. Ай. Варшавски.
Кинжал Джона Кризи - Новая кровь
Лауреат
Janet Neel
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Winner of the Crime Writers' Association's John Creasey Award for best first crime novel in 1988, Janet Neel's Death's Bright Angel took the traditional English detective story and placed it in a realistic, often cut-throat, setting of modern business and government intervention. In doing so, she created an endearing pair of investigators - high-flying Department of Trade civil servant Francesca Wilson and CID Inspector John McLeish - whose relationship and romance was to flourish over the course of seven novels. Janet Neel qualified as a solicitor after taking a law degree at Cambridge. She moved into industrial relations with the Department of Trade and Industry and has been a director of several public companies, including the London Stock Exchange. From 1994 to 1999 she was a governor of the BBC and in 2000 received a life peerage. She sits in the House of Lords as Baroness Cohen of Pimlico and is an active organiser of the Parliament Choir. She lives in Cambridge and is the current Chairman of the Arts Theatre.
Graham Ison
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The bizarre lifestyle of a beautiful young woman is revealed when Scotland Yard's CID investigates her death. The enquiry leads eventually to Whitehall and the highest echelons of the Civil Service. This is the first novel by Ison, a former Chief Superintendent.
Peter Ransley
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A psychological suspense story about a woman's suspicion that her husband is the sexual murderer known as the Hawk.
Guy Stanley
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A body with underworld connections lies sprawled in the Tama River. Araki, a hardened investigative journalist, looks into the circumstances behind the death and soon finds himself in grave danger. Only his skill and determination can save him as he moves towards the startling climax of his search.
Последний смех
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Nancy Livingston
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Mr Pringle is persuaded by Mavis Bignell to accompany her on a holiday to Australia, where he has promised to look for a friend's missing grandchild. He becomes caught up in international drug trafficking and nuclear waste disposal.
Mike Ripley
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London in the late 1980s - the era of Thatcherism and Loadsamoney - is an exciting but sometimes dangerous place to live. Fitzroy Maclean Angel gets by partly through gigging as a jazz trumpet player, partly through taking illegal fares in his de-registered black taxi cab, and partly through ... well, just being in the right place at the right time. And, as he often says himself, it's better to be lucky than good. In Just Another Angel, his debut escapade, the streetsmart Angel meets a beautiful and enigmatic blonde - and that's just the start of his troubles. Hotly pursued by a jail-bird gangster and his thuggish henchman, a maverick cop bent on revenge, and a dogged Inland Revenue inspector, he finds his life becoming more complicated by the minute. And just how an emerald pendant, a women's peace camp and a wad of French francs fit into the picture, he can hardly imagine ... Back in print for the first time in a decade are the first three titles in Mike Ripley's acclaimed 'Angel' series of comic crime novels. Each title is handsomely packaged and contains an specially-written introduction by the author.
Золотой Кинжал за нехудожественное произведение
Лауреат
Бернард Вассерштейн
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Hungarian-Jewish thief, Anglican priest, social reformer, member of Parliament, crooked speculator, international spy, right-wing revolutionary - Lincoln was all of these, and more, in the course of his life. His motivation, identities and activities are discussed in this book.
Бриллиантовый Кинжал Картье
