The Edgar Awards Revisited: Hopscotch by Brian Garfield (Best Novel; 1976)
By Scott Adlerberg
June 7, 2019Brian Garfield had written over 50 books by the time Hopscotch, the 1976 Edgar winner for Best Novel, was published. Born in New York City in 1939, Garfield started writing young, and his first book came out when he was eighteen. Throughout the 1960s, he wrote mainly westerns, churning out three or four novels per…