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.
