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Jay Bennett


Born
in New York City, The United States
December 24, 1912

Died
June 27, 2009

Genre
Mystery & Thrillers, Young Adult


Jay Bennett (born in New York City, December 24, 1912, died June 27, 2009 in Cherry Hill, NJ) was an American author and two-time winner of the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Bennett won the Edgar for Best Juvenile novel in 1974 and 1975, for The Long Black Coat (Delacorte Press) and The Dangling Witness (Delacorte Press), respectively. He was the first author to win an Edgar in consecutive years. A third book, The Skeleton Man (Franklin Watts), was nominated in 1987. Bennett is best known among English teachers and young adults for these and other juvenile mysteries, like Deathman, Do Not Follow Me (Scholastic).

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Average rating: 3.71 · 2,369 ratings · 205 reviews · 45 distinct works • Similar authors
The Executioner
3.28 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1982 — 7 editions
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Deathman, Do Not Follow Me
3.60 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1968 — 14 editions
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Sing Me a Death Song
3.51 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1990 — 8 editions
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Coverup
3.44 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1991 — 14 editions
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My Brother's Keeper
4.16 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Skeleton Man
3.13 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1986 — 11 editions
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The Dark Corridor
3.47 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions
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The Pigeon
3.64 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1980 — 5 editions
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Skinhead
3.15 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions
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Say Hello to the Hit Man
3.19 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1976 — 8 editions
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“I am the executioner. When the crime is committed and the Lord God does not take vengeance nor does the exalted State move to declare and then to punish, I say when these bitter events happen, then comes the time for the executioner to declare himself or herself as the case may be. I have waited long enough. So the time has come, and I declare myself the executioner. The three criminals are hereby sentenced to death. By fire. By earth. By water.”
― Jay Bennett, The Executioner
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