The Edgar Awards Revisited: A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine (Best Novel; 1987)
By Hank Phillippi Ryan
August 23, 2019I wish I could have eavesdropped on the Edgar committee for 1987. “Are you kidding me?” someone might have said. “A Dark-Adapted Eye? Barbara Vine, whoever that is, tells who did it on page one! What kind of a mystery is that?” Someone else may have chimed in. “Listen, Barbara Vine is a pseudonym for Ruth…