Posted 3:00 AM by Gerald So
Bestselling mystery author Brendan DuBois was arrested Wednesday, charged with six felony counts. Along with his honors and stature as a novelist, DuBois was a prolific short story writer, winning the Private Eye Writers of America's Best Short Story Shamus and the Short Mystery Fiction Society's Derringer and receiving the SMFS's highest award, the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement.
The SMFS is a gratis, informal group, but as a former member who still wants to see the group and its subject gain the highest regard, I hope the Society disassociates from DuBois, stripping his Derringers just as his publisher has dropped him and upcoming and previous Bouchercon anthologies have removed his contributions.
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