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- "High-Country Drop, Margaret Maron's newest installation in the Deborah Knott series, was printed in Mysterious Press hardcover in 8/04, with a first printing of 40,000 copies.- Margaret Maron grabbed the utmost effective mystery prizes with her first Deborah Knott hardcover, "Bootlegger's Daughter (Mysterious Press, 1992), getting the Edgar1 Award for Best Mystery Novel, the Agatha Award, the Macavity, and the Anthony. She also gained a 1992 Agatha Award for the short-story that introduced the smoothness of Deborah Knott, and later, she obtained the Agatha Award for Best Novel for "Up Jumps the Devil (Mysterious Press, 1996). Maron was nominated for an Agatha Award for "Home Fires (Mysterious Press, 1998), and lately, "Surprise Monitor (Mysterious Press, 2000) won the Agatha Award for Best Novel. "Last Lessons of Summer (Mysterious Press, 2003), was also nominated for an Agatha Award.- "Last Lessons of Summer, Sluggish Buck, and Unusual Clay were all chosen as Mystery Guild Major Choices.