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Jay Bennett

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born

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

died

June 27, 2009

gender

male

genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Young Adult

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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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Books by Jay Bennett

Average rating: 3.53 · 206 ratings · 31 reviews · 31 distinct works

	The Executioner 3.18 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Deathman, Do Not Follow Me 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1968 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Sing Me a Death Song 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Skinhead 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Pigeon 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1980 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Coverup 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Skeleton Man 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1986 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Long Black Coat 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings	My rating:
	The Dark Corridor 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Haunted One 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Jay Bennett

“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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