Edgar Award Best Novel Winner
The Chatham School Affair
by Thomas H. Cook
Summary
An elderly New England lawyer looks back on the events of 1926, when a new art teacher arrived at his father's school and set in motion a chain of passion and tragedy that destroyed several lives. Cook unspools the story slowly through memory and regret, withholding the full truth until a devastating final revelation. The novel is admired for its elegiac tone and its meditation on guilt that lingers across a lifetime.
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Historical Context & Significance
This was the novel that won Thomas H. Cook the Edgar Award for Best Novel.