Monday, 24 March 2025

2025 Dove Award: Detective/Mystery Caucus of the Popular Culture Association


Congratulations to David Geherin who has been awarded the Dove Award by the Detective/Mystery Caucus of the Popular Culture Association. 

The Detective/Mystery Caucus of the Popular Culture Association announced its latest Dove Awardee: David Geherin, who is Professor Emeritus of English at Eastern Michigan University. He is also an Edgar nominee in the Best Critical/Biographical category this year for Organized Crime on Page and Screen: Portrayals in Hit Novels, Films, and Television Shows

He has also received earlier Edgar nominations for The Crime World of Michael Connelly: A Study of His Works and Their Adaptations (2022), Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction (2008); also nominated for a Macavity Award), and The American Private Eye: The Image in Fiction (1985). His other books include Carl Hiaasen: Sunshine State Satirist (2019), Funny Thing About Murder: Modes of Humour in Crime Fiction and Films (2017), Small Towns in Recent American Crime Fiction (2015), and Elmore Leonard (1989).

The Dove Award, is named for mystery-fiction scholar George N. Dove and is given to “individuals who have contributed to the serious study of mystery, detective, and crime fiction.”

Previous Dove honourees include Martin Edwards, Barry Forshaw, Douglas G. Greene, P.D. James, H.R.F. Keating, Margaret Kinsman, Elizabeth Foxwell, and Janet Rudolph. 

 

H/T Mystery Fanfare

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