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David Pietrusza's Rothstein Nominated for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award
David Pietrusza's Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series has been nominated for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award in the True Crime Category.
(PRWEB) February 4, 2004 --David Pietrusza's Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series has been nominated for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award in the True Crime Category.
The winners will be announced Thursday, April 29, 2004 at the 58th annual Edgar Awards dinner gala at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City.
The other nominees are:
| | - Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder by Steve Hodel (Arcade)
- The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Random/Crown)
- Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders by Dick
Lehr and Mitchell Zuckoff (HarperCollins)
- And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching
- Leo Frank by Steve Oney (Pantheon)
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Previous Edgar Award winners in the Fact Crime category include Earl Stanley Gardner, Truman Capote, Joseph Wambaugh, Tom Wicker, Anthony Lewis, Shana Alexander, Gerold Frank, Robert Lindsey, and Vincent Bugliosi.
Rothstein is the story of legendary New York gambler Arnold Rothstein, who fixed the 1919 World Series and who was mysteriously murdered in November 1928.
Pietrusza's Judge and Jury: The Life & Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis won the 1998 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year.
For more information about the awards and organization, go to the Mystery Writers' Web site (www.mysterywriters.org ). For more information on Rothstein visit:(www.davidpietrusza.com/Rothstein.html)
Rothstein is published by Carroll & Graf.
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