The Edgar Awards Revisited: Old Bones by Aaron Elkins (Best Novel; 1988)
By Gabino Iglesias
August 30, 2019Aaron Elkins’ Old Bones, the fourth novel in the Gideon Oliver Mysteries series, won the Edgar Award in 1988 and has been continuously in print since then. With its elegant prose and dialogue-heavy writing, the book is a master class in classic whodunits and one of the first modern novels to delve deep into forensic…
