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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "jimdohertyjr"
<jimdohertyjr@...> wrote:
>
> Malcolm Braly's first novel, a Gold Medal PBO called
FELONY TANK, made
> minor crime fiction history when it became one of
the only two PBO
> novels ever to be nominated for Edgar awards prior
to the 1969
> institution of the Best Paperback Original Novel
category.
>
> Braly's nomination was for Best 1st Novel of 1961.
It lost to Suzanne
> Blanc's THE GREEN STONE, which also made minor crime
fiction history by
> being the first and only novel to be nominated for
two different Edgar
> awards in two different categories in the same year.
In addition to
> winning for Best 1st, it was nominated for Best
Novel, losing to J.J.
> Marric's GIDEON'S FIRE.
And what became of Braly? He seems utterly forgotten these
days. Anotherguy I like from that era is serial goldmedalist
Aarons... I don't know if he actually traveled to all those
exotic places, but he wrote a damn good yarn. I think I have
all his Gold Medals, a bunch of them found together at a yard
sale... nobody wanted them, I'm sure.
Best,
mrt
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