The New Mystery Annual Lock Museum Happening! is held in Manhattan, at the Lock Museum, General Society Library, 20 West Forty-fourth Street, NYC). New Mystery magazine editors, authors, critics and artists attend the informal reception. Locks, wine, cookies and celebrities are served. Free admission, donations accepted.
Major Bailey Mapp, USAF, received the 1998 Blaggard Award For Best Mystery Short Story for his debut, Not This Time, a tale of marriage on the rocks, adultery, spousal abuse and murder. The debut story premiered on the NewMystery.com website and then in the print edition of the magazine (Summer 97/V#1). Major Mapp is stationed in Charleston, South Carolina.
The traditional ceremony is held in the magnificent Lock Museum mezzanine. See the first original, classic models of locking mechanisms. See Kidd’s Strongbox, Single and double tumbler first editions, original models by Bramah, Yale, Chubb. Also Alexander, George The Third, Napoleon era pieces, various and unique prototypes by historically important smiths. Also landmark mechanisms, odd and unique reliquaries. On display. No cameras allowed.
Previous Blaggard Award Winners For Best Mystery Short Story: 1997, The Music Lesson by Rosemarie Santini; 96, Death In A Small Town by Larry Beinhart; 95, What Will People Say? by Frank Hickey; 94, My Obit Habit by Charles Schwarz; 93, Mallory by David Somerset; 92, A Long Time To Die by David Zeltzerman; 91, The Very Last One by William Ruud. Note that only professional authors Santini and Beinhart were not en debut.
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