Edgar Award Winning Authors

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1. The 1977 award was for the book "The Thomas Berryman Number". This author had a day job in advertising in NY while writing a string of best sellers after that Edgar winner. John Sanford Gregory McDonald James Patterson Scott Turow

2. This author's first book was a biography of Rev. Billy Graham's wife. Her first novel award was for "Postmortem", which was followed by books such as "The Body Farm". Patricia Cornwell Laurie King Susan Wolfe Jane Smiley

3. What is the title John Ball's 1966 book that was also the 1967 Best Picture Oscar winner with Sidney Poitier? In the Heat of the Night Bonnie and Clyde Guess Who's Coming to Dinner The Lost Man

4. What is the title of Thomas Perry's first book, which title fits his main character so well? Invisible Man Sleep Dogs Butcher Boy Face-Changer

5. Whose first novel introduced us to Delano, Georgia, a town that he would revisit in many following books, either through setting, or people from the town? Stuart Woods Jonathon King Clyde Edgerton John Grisham

6. Who gave us Romulus Ledbetter, the resident caveman in Manhattan tracking the killer of a homeless boy in "Caveman Valentine"? David Housewright Ridley Pearson Christopher Reich George Dawes Green

7. Kate Martinelli became the center character of at least four novel starting with "A Grave Talent" by which author? Patricia Cornwell Laurie King Mary Russell Barbara Mikulski

8. "The Good German" is becoming Joseph Kanon's more famous novel, but which one was his first? Riptide Los Alamos Moving On The Black Echo

9. "Degree of Guilt", and "Outside Man" are both later novels from which author, who won the award for "The Lasko Tangent"? Jonathan Kellerman Richard North Patterson David Liss Michael Shaara

10. "When the Bough Breaks" introduced us to Alex Delaware, child psychologist turned sleuth. Who wrote this book, as well as "Bad Love" and "Devil's Waltz"? Robert James Waller Larry Beinhart Jonathan Kellerman Peter Blauner