Macavity Awards

He is the recipient of the Crime Writer's Diamond Dagger for a lifetime contribution to crime writing.

He is also the winner of the Golden Derringer for short fiction, the Poirot Award for non-fiction and the George N. Dove Award, the Edgar, the Agatha, the HRF Keating Award, and the Macavity Award.

All, of course, truly remarkable.

So let's chat to Martin Edwards.

The Monkey's Raincoat didn't just win over fans, it swept the critical landscape of the era.

It earned the 1988 Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original and the 1988 Macavity Award for Best First Novel.

It proved to the literary establishment that noir doesn't have to be depressing to be critically excellent.

Okay.

The Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Award.

The Dilys Award, the Arthur Ellis Award, the Agatha Award, the Macavity Award, and the Barry Award

It's almost comical.

I am trying to wrap my head around what this actually means in the context of the industry.