The Edgar Awards Revisited: A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong (Best Novel; 1957)
By Ardi Alspach
January 25, 2019The year is 1956, and let us set the scene: Elvis Presley enters the US music charts for the first time with Heartbreak Hotel, and later in the year, his magic hips appear on the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time; Ninety-six U.S. Congressmen sign the Southern Manifesto, a protest against the 1954 Supreme…
