Name Stefanie Pintoff | Role Author | |
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Awards Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author Nominations Sue Feder Historical Mystery, Anthony Award for Best First Novel Books In the Shadow of Gotham, A Curtain Falls, Secret of the White Rose Profiles | ||
Stefanie Pintoff is an American author of historical mystery novels.
Work
Stefanie Pintoff’s books take place in New York City in the early 1900s. Her character Simon Ziele is a police detective who lost his fiancée in a steamship accident, and Alistair Sinclair is a talented and egotistical criminologist. Her work is known for intricate plots and historical details, with a focus on early criminal science.
Her book In the Shadow of Gotham won the Minotaur/Mystery Writers of America Award for "Best First Crime Novel", the 2010 Edgar Award for Best First Novel and a 2011 Washington Irving Book Award.
The 1904 General Slocum disaster played a prominent role in two of her novels: In the Shadow of Gotham and Secret of the White Rose.
References
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