A Look at the 1974 Edgar Award Finalists: Tony Hillerman, P.D. James, and More
By Carol Potenza
May 24, 2019For readers of the 1974 Edgar finalists, the authors took extra care to embed some of the reigning societal and political issues of the time into excellent mysteries and thrillers. While women’s rights were slowly advancing with the passage of Title IX (U.S., 1972) and the Equal Pay Act (Great Britain, 1970), P.D. James poked…