{"id":50657,"date":"2024-08-10T12:15:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T17:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/?p=50657"},"modified":"2024-08-10T12:16:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T17:16:28","slug":"perplexing-plots-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2024\/08\/10\/perplexing-plots-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"PERPLEXING PLOTS Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PERPLEXING-PLOTS-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-50658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PERPLEXING-PLOTS-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PERPLEXING-PLOTS-cover.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PERPLEXING-PLOTS-cover-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PERPLEXING-PLOTS-cover-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PERPLEXING-PLOTS-cover-99x150.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back on February 10, less than three weeks before his death, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2024\/02\/10\/news-about-perplexing-plots\/\">David blogged<\/a> about the positive reception that <em>Perplexing Plots<\/em> had had including a nomination for an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He didn&#8217;t live to learn the result, but it didn&#8217;t win.<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, comes news that the International Crime Fiction Association has given it one of the two top awards in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.captivatingcriminalitynetwork.net\/2023-prize.html\">Sixth Annual ICFA Book Prize<\/a> competition.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Columbia University Press, especially Meredith Howard, for entering the book in the competition!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back on February 10, less than three weeks before his death, David blogged about the positive reception that Perplexing Plots had had including a nomination for an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He didn&#8217;t live to learn the result, but it didn&#8217;t win. Now, however, comes news that the International Crime Fiction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perplexing-plots-the-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50657"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50662,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50657\/revisions\/50662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}