About
Art Taylor is the Edgar Award-winning author of two short story collections—The Adventure of the Castle Thief and Other Expeditions and Indiscretions (2023) and The Boy Detective & The Summer of ’74 and Other Tales of Suspense (2020)—and of the novel in stories On the Road with Del & Louise (2015), winner of the Agatha Award for Best First Novel. He has won three additional Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, four Macavity Awards, and four Derringer Awards for his short fiction, and he was the 2025 recipient of the Short Mystery Fiction Society’s Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement. His work has also appeared in Best American Mystery Stories and Best American Mystery and Suspense, and he has edited several mystery anthologies, including Murder Under the Oaks: Bouchercon Anthology 2015, winner of the Anthony Award for Best Anthology or Collection. He is a professor of English at George Mason University.
Featured Work
The Adventure of the Castle Thief and Other Expeditions and Indiscretions
A man hears a melody in the night and begins a dangerous quest to locate its source. Ghosts of the past haunt the present in hotels, at an office party, and on a date that takes a dark turn. And an elderly woman named Marple sets out to prove she’s every bit as capable as Christie’s own famous sleuth. The Adventure of the Castle Thief and Other Expeditions and Indiscretions, the second short story collection from Edgar Award winner Art Taylor, spans the spectrum of crime fiction—from light-hearted traditional mystery to noir-tinged tales and even toward speculative fiction—and features two previously unpublished stories and an introduction by Martin Edwards.
Other Works
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The Boy Detective & The Summer of '74 and Other Tales of Suspense
2020
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On the Road with Del & Louise: A Novel in Stories
2015; republished 2026
Awards and Recognition
- Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement, 2025, Short Mystery Fiction Society
- Derringer Award, Best Novelette, 2021: “The Boy Detective & The Summer of ’74”
- Macavity Award, Best Short Story, 2020: “Better Days”
- Edgar Award, 2019, for "English 398: Fiction Workshop—Notes from Class & A Partial Draft By Brittany Wallace, Plus Feedback, Conference & More," originally published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July/August 2018.
- Macavity Award, Best Short Story, 2019: “English 398: Fiction Workshop”
- Agatha Award, Best Short Story, 2016: “Parallel Play”
- Macavity Award, Best Short Story, 2016: “Parallel Play”
- Agatha Award, Best First Novel, 2015: On the Road with Del & Louise: A Novel in Stories
- Anthony Award, Best Short Story, 2015: “The Odds Are Against Us”
- Agatha Award, Best Short Story, 2014: “The Odds Are Against Us”
- Macavity Award, Best Short Story, 2014: “The Care and Feeding of Houseplants”
- Agatha Award, Best Short Story, 2013: “The Care and Feeding of Houseplants”
- Derringer Award, Best Long Story, 2013: “When Duty Calls”
- Derringer Award, Best Long Story, 2012: “A Drowning at Snow’s Cut”
- Derringer Award, Best Novelette, 2011: “Rearview Mirror”
