The Edgar Awards Revisited: Billingsgate Shoal by Rick Boyer (Best Novel; 1983)

Billingsgate Shoal launches out of the gates from the first page with one of the best hooks I’ve read in a while. Charles “Doc” Adams introduces himself as a doctor and dental surgeon, with a wife and two college-aged sons. He immediately offers up a juicy tidbit: My most interesting recent operation was quick, spontaneous,…