{{Short description|1991 mystery and detective fiction convention}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2012}} {{Infobox award | name = Bouchercon XXII | subheader = "Bouchercon .22" | date = {{Start date|1991|10|11}} | location = Pasadena, California | country = USA | host = Len & June Moffatt | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | previous = XXI | main = Bouchercon | next = XXIII }} Bouchercon is an annual convention of creators and devotees of mystery and detective fiction.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bouchercon.info/index.html |title=Bouchercon World Mystery Convention : Home |publisher=Bouchercon.info |accessdate=January 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112224218/http://www.bouchercon.info/index.html |archive-date=January 12, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is named in honour of writer, reviewer, and editor Anthony Boucher; also the inspiration for the Anthony Awards, which have been issued at the convention since 1986.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/887593-264/bouchercon_2010_by_the_bay.html.csp |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120905081837/http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/887593-264/bouchercon_2010_by_the_bay.html.csp |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 5, 2012 |title=Bouchercon 2010 by the Bay: The World Series of Mystery |publisher=Libraryjournal.com |date=November 4, 2010 |accessdate=January 30, 2012 |first=Teresa |last=Jacobsen }}</ref> This page details '''Bouchercon XXII''' and the 6th Anthony Awards ceremony.

==Bouchercon== The convention was held in Pasadena, California on October 11, 1991; running until the 13th. The event was chaired by Len & June Moffatt, founders and editors of the ''JDM Bibliophile'', a fanzine and journal dedicated the works of John D. MacDonald.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Qv4jAAAAIBAJ&pg=6828,3258421&dq=len+june-moffatt&hl=en |title=A Leader in Mystery Writing Field: Serious Scholars Discover Author MacDonald |date=November 21, 1978 |newspaper=Sarasota Herald-Tribune |accessdate=February 2, 2012 |first=Gary |last=Morgan}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Scott |first=Steve |url=https://thetrapofsolidgold.blogspot.com/2010/12/len-moffatt-1923-2010.html |title=The Trap of Solid Gold: Len Moffatt (1923 - 2010) |publisher=Thetrapofsolidgold.blogspot.com |date=December 8, 2010 |accessdate=February 2, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The JDM bibliophile. (Journal, magazine, 1900s) |publisher=[WorldCat.org] |oclc = 006738810}}</ref>

===Special Guests=== *Lifetime Achievement award — William Campbell Gault *Guest of Honor — Edward D. Hoch *Guest of Honor (visual media) — William Link *Fan Guest of Honor — Bruce Pelz *Toastmaster — Bill Crider

==Anthony Awards== The following list details the awards distributed at the sixth annual Anthony Awards ceremony.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bouchercon.info/nominees.html#1991 |title=Bouchercon World Mystery Convention : Anthony Awards Nominees |publisher=Bouchercon.info |date=October 2, 2003 |accessdate=January 31, 2012 |archive-date=February 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207060829/http://www.bouchercon.info/nominees.html#1991 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Novel award=== Winner: *Sue Grafton, ''"G" Is for Gumshoe''

Shortlist: *Lawrence Block, ''A Ticket to the Boneyard'' *Lia Matera, ''The Good Fight'' *Sharyn McCrumb, ''If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O'' *Julie Smith, ''New Orleans Mourning''

===First novel award=== Winner: *Patricia Daniels Cornwell, ''Postmortem''

Shortlist: *Diane Mott Davidson, ''Catering to Nobody'' *Janet Dawson, ''Kindred Crimes'' *Rochelle Krich, ''Where's Mommy Now?'' *James McCahery, ''Grave Undertaking''

===Paperback original award=== Winners: *Rochelle Krich, ''Where's Mommy Now?'' *James McCahery, ''Grave Undertaking''

Shortlist: *Jane Haddam, ''Not a Creature was Stirring'' *G.J. Oliphant, ''Dead in the Scrub'' *Marilyn Wallace, ''Sisters in Crime 2''

===Short story award=== Winner: *Susan Dunlap, "The Celestial Buffet", from ''Sisters in Crime 2''

Shortlist: *Sharyn McCrumb, "The Luncheon", from ''Sisters in Crime 2'' *Sharyn McCrumb, "Remains to be Seen", from ''Mummy Stories'' *Sarah Shankman, "Say You're Sorry", from ''Sisters in Crime 3'' *Marilyn Wallace, "A Tale of Two Pretties", from ''Sisters in Crime 3''

===Critical / Non-fiction award=== Winner: *Jon L. Breen & Martin H. Greenberg, ''Synod Of Sleuths: Essays on Judeo-Christian Detective Fiction''

Shortlist: *Serita Deborah Stevens & Anne Klarner, ''Deadly Doses: A Writer's Guide to Poisons'' *Peter Lewis, ''Eric Ambler'' *S. T. Joshi, ''John Dickson Carr: a Critical Study'' *John Conquest, ''Trouble Is Their Business: Private Eyes in Fiction, Film & Television, 1927-1988''

===Motion Picture award=== Winner: *''Presumed Innocent''

Shortlist: *''Goodfellas'' *''The Grifters''

===Television series award=== Winner: *''Mystery!''

Shortlist: *''Gabriel's Fire'' *''Law & Order'' *''Matlock'' *''Murder, She Wrote''

==References== {{reflist}}

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