Вручение 2006 г.

Страна: США Место проведения: город Бристоль, Великобритания Дата проведения: 2006 г.

Лучший юмористический детектив

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Peter Guttridge 0.0
When gentle journalist Nick Madrid??'s foray into stunt work on a low-budget pirate movie finds him fighting for his life with modern-day pirates (their motto: "shoot first, you won???t need to ask questions later"), equally ruthless salvage divers (intent on looting the loot from the sunken ship of the notorious Captain Kidd), and a whole host of dangerous watery creatures, walking the plank suddenly seems like the best option. Nick and his best friend, Bridget are in the West Indies working on Blackheart, a musical film biography of the notorious, mass-murdering, raping, and pillaging pirate Blackbeard. But with the frankly oddball cast and the impossible pairing of "low budget" with "film made on water," it doesn???t take long for their movie stardom ambitions to flounder. If the unfortunate Nick didn???t already have enough to deal with, he and Bridget become shipwrecked on an island with the sole surviving member of the gone horribly, horribly wrong Survivor-like TV game show, Cast Adrift. Faced with their biggest danger to date and no way of escape, could this be the end of the intrepid duo?
Джаспер Ффорде 4.2
Детектив Джек Шпротт работает в Отделе сказочных преступлений. Каждый день подбрасывает ему все более и более запутанные дела. Только он в состоянии разобраться, насколько невинны три поросенка и так ли уж виноват серый волк, живьем сваренный этими маленькими садистами. Только он может принять решение, по какой статье сажать Румпельштильцхена, который превращал солому в золото. С древней сказочной жутью невероятно трудно бороться, но вот Джеку Шпротту вновь приходится сжать волю в кулак и как можно быстрее приступить к расследованию загадочной смерти мецената и филантропа, да и вообще хорошего парня Шалтая-Болтая...

Лучший исторический детектив / Мемориал Александра Брюса

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Тони Бродбент 0.0
It's the austere 1948 world of post-war, black-maket-riddled England, and Jethro, the cat burglar and jewel thief, has been pushed out onto the rooftops of London again by Colonel Walsingham of MI5.
And so, forced once again to step out from behind his disguise as a part-time stagehand in London's West End, Jethro does a creep in Mayfair and sets in motion a tale of dark and deadly dealings that mixes national politics with black magice, orgies of abandon, and blackmail.

Things get even deadlier when he stumbles across a royal cover-up and then uncovers a plot to topple Clement Attlee's Labour Government.

And always ever present, looming in the background, are the twin spectres of the growing communist menace and a rebirth of fascism. There are even rumors the Americans are poking their noses deep into things and that a mysterious OSS agent is roaming around London with his eagle eye set on someone who looks a lot like Jethro.

To top it all, Walsingham comes up with a plan - "in Defence of the Realm" - that calls for Jethro to steal his way into the very heart of aristocratic English circles.

However, Walsingham's behind-the-scenes string pulling also has unitended consequences in London's gangland that result in Jethro finding himself up to his neck again in the never-ending battle between two of London's most notorious gang bosses, Darby Messina and Jack Spot.

And all this is just a precursor to Jethro having to do a very serious bit of burglary at a certain very grand country house, the success or failure of which could mean England saved from going to the dogs or spell curtains for Jethro.

In Spectres in the Smoke, Tony Broadbent has created a dark, shadowy vision of post-war London and spun a truly enthralling tale.
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Жаклин Уинспир 3.8
Покойная леди Агнес Лоутон так и не смогла поверить, что ее сын Ральф, военный летчик, погиб на полях Первой мировой. И теперь ее муж, которому необходимо выполнить последнюю волю жены, просит Мейси отправиться во Францию и найти доказательства смерти Ральфа.
Мейси начинает расследование и оказывается в запутанном лабиринте опасных тайн прошлого…