First Prize

Chess Hanrahan #1

by Edward Cline

Private detective Chess Hanrahan is hired by the prestigious Granville Foundation to locate Gregory Compton, recipient of the Foundation's fiction award, when he fails to appear

Genres: Fiction, Mystery

Mass Market Paperback

First published April 1, 1988

About the author

Edward Cline is an American novelist and essayist. He is best known for his Sparrowhawk series of novels, which take place in England and Virginia before the American Revolutionary War. He is also the author of First Prize and Whisper the Guns. Outside of his work as a novelist, Cline is known for his writings on esthetics and his defense of capitalism and of free speech. As a writer, his strongest influence has been the philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand. Currently, he is a policy analyst for the Center for the Advancement of Capitalism. He lives in Yorktown, Virginia.





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Reviews

[Diane Challenor · Rating 4 out of 5]

I originally purchased this book as an audiobook edition, but I shelved it because it needed more focus; it wasn't till some months later, possibly a year later, when I was trawling through my list of shelved books and reacquainted myself with the story, and my note about why I'd shelved the audiobook. I decided to buy the ebook edition. I wasn't disappointed. It's an interesting story delving into the Literature Prize world, and the main character, Chess Hanrahan, turned out to be a well-read intelligent character. Once I started reading, it became my "main" read (I read several books during the same reading period). I enjoyed it, and I intend to put the next one in the series on my TBR list. The other thing I'll be doing is having a look at Edward Cline's other series, The Sparrowhawk Series, to see if I'd enjoy it.