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Volume 3, Issue 2 – April, 2000

Malice Snapshot: Awards and Photos

The premier fan convention for the traditional mystery, Malice Domestic XII was held at the Washington, D.C., Renaissance Hotel, May 5-7. In addition, convention attendees and organizers awarded the following honors:

A Winner and her Teapot — Donna Andrews displays her Agatha Award for Murder With Peacocks, the Best First Mystery of 1999

Agatha Awards

Best Non-fiction: Daniel Stashower, Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle 

Best Short Story: Nancy Pickard, “Out of Africa” (from Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder) 

Best First Mystery: Donna Andrews, Murder with Peacocks 

Best Novel: Earlene Fowler, Mariner’s Compass

Malice Domestic Lifetime Achievement Award: Dick Francis

American Crime Writers League Ellen Nehr Award: Patty Ruocco 

St. Martin’s Press Malice Domestic First Novel Contest: Margo Wadley, The Gripping Beast  

Malice Domestic Grants:
Carolyn Kourofsky, Through a Killer’s Eye;
Susan Wrona Gall, Incident at the Gallery

Malice Domestic Pro/Am Competition: Amateur Division Diane Finney (for a three-page treatment of a mystery called Murder at Sea)
(There were no entries in the Professional Division.)

Jacqueline Boroch Memorial Hat Contest:
Most Creative Hat: Nancy E. Harris
Most Beautiful Hat: Jean Marie Ward

Jan Burke displays the Edgar she won May 4. Although Burke’s Bones failed to make the Agatha nomination list, the Mystery Writers of America named it 1999’s best mystery.
(From left to right) Tami Hoag, Eileen Dreyer, Willetta L. Heising, Elaine Viets, Nancy Bartholomew and Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, a.k.a. the Bad Girls of traditional mystery, share their best-worst censorship stories. The audience heard about Hoag’s fight over flatulence, Bartholomew’s pastie tale, and how the male strippers stole Viets’ hairspray. But somehow Dreyer managed to avoid telling “The Duck Story.”
The title pinned to the front of California author C. J. Songer’s bride’s dress says it all. Songer’s grand entrance into the Dealer’s Room, May 6 created one of the best photo opportunities of the convention. The hat, Songer and Donna Andrews later a “drive-by mic attack” at the close of the Jacqueline Boroch Memorial Hat Contest.

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