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Edgar Award Nominees - Fact Crime 1980s
1.
Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring
by:
Pete Earley
4.06 avg rating — 378 ratings
2.
Cocaine Wars
by:
Paul Eddy
3.69 avg rating — 51 ratings
3.
Monkey on a Stick: Murder, Madness, and the Hare Krishnas
by:
John Hubner
3.95 avg rating — 291 ratings
4.
Talked to Death: The Life and Murder of Alan Berg
by:
Stephen Singular
3.88 avg rating — 109 ratings
5.
The Man Who Robbed the Pierre: The Story of Bobby Comfort and the Biggest Hotel Robbery Ever
by:
Ira Berkow
4.08 avg rating — 71 ratings
6.
The Airman and the Carpenter The Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Framing of Richard Hauptman
by:
Ludovic Kennedy
3.82 avg rating — 141 ratings
7.
Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family
by:
Nicholas Pileggi
4.24 avg rating — 20,793 ratings
8.
Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son
by:
Gordon Burn
4.18 avg rating — 807 ratings
8.
Murder at the Met: Based on the Exclusive Accounts of Detectives Mike Struk and Jerry Giorgio of How They Solved the Phantom of the Opera Case
by:
David Black
3.38 avg rating — 32 ratings
10.
The Von Bulow Affair
by:
William Wright
3.49 avg rating — 167 ratings
11.
Son
by:
Jack Olsen
4.01 avg rating — 4,018 ratings
12.
Assassination on Embassy Row
by:
John Dinges
4.23 avg rating — 61 ratings
13.
Zebra
by:
Clark Howard
4.04 avg rating — 203 ratings
14.
A Gathering of Saints
by:
Christopher Hyde
3.69 avg rating — 209 ratings
15.
The Dreams of Ada
by:
Robert Mayer
3.94 avg rating — 970 ratings
16.
Engaged to Murder
by:
Loretta Schwartz-Nobel
3.41 avg rating — 78 ratings
17.
Incident at Big Sky: The True Story of Sheriff Johnny France and the Capture of the Mountain Men
by:
Johnny France
4.11 avg rating — 1,503 ratings
18.
The Poison Tree: A True Story Of Family Terror
by:
Alan Prendergast
3.83 avg rating — 706 ratings
19.
Unveiling Claudia
by:
Daniel Keyes
3.25 avg rating — 466 ratings
20.
At Mother's Request: A True Story of Money, Murder and Betrayal
by:
Jonathan Coleman
3.87 avg rating — 131 ratings
21.
Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder - A Family Album
by:
Shana Alexander
3.65 avg rating — 384 ratings
22.
The Murder of a Shopping Bag Lady
by:
Brian Kates
4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
23.
Earth to Earth: True Story of the Lives and Violent Deaths of a Devon Farming Family
by:
John Cornwell
4.06 avg rating — 80 ratings
24.
Evidence of Love
by:
John Bloom
4.08 avg rating — 6,959 ratings
25.
The Molineux Affair
by:
Jane Pejsa
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
26.
Deadly Force: The True Story of How a Badge Can Become a License to Kill
by:
Lawrence O'Donnell Jr.
4.31 avg rating — 189 ratings
27.
Judgment Day
by:
Bob Lancaster
3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
28.
Big Bucks
by:
Ernest Tidyman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
29.
Deadly Intentions
by:
William Randolph Stevens
4.10 avg rating — 67 ratings
30.
Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street
by:
David McClintick
3.95 avg rating — 297 ratings
31.
"Somebody is Lying": The Story of Dr. X
by:
Myron Farber
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
32.
By Reason of Doubt
by:
Ellen Godfrey
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
33.
The day they stole the Mona Lisa
by:
Seymour Reit
3.90 avg rating — 41 ratings
34.
The Minds of Billy Milligan
by:
Daniel Keyes
4.28 avg rating — 33,730 ratings
35.
Trial of Patrolman Thomas Shea
by:
Thomas Hauser
4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings
36.
Anyone's Daughter: The Times and Trials of Patricia Hearst
by:
Shana Alexander
3.38 avg rating — 32 ratings
37.
Blood Will Tell: The Murder Trials of T. Cullen Davis
by:
Gary Cartwright
3.91 avg rating — 132 ratings
38.
Sentenced to Die: The People, the Crimes, and the Controversy
by:
Stephen H. Gettinger
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings