The Executioner
By Jay Bennett
1982
First Published
3.29
Average Rating
176
Number of Pages
Three survivors of an automobile crash, in which the driver was killed, are threatened by an executioner who believes they too should die.
Avg Rating
3.29
Number of Ratings
107
5 STARS
16%
4 STARS
24%
3 STARS
37%
2 STARS
18%
1 STARS
5%
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Author
Jay Bennett
Author · 9 books
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).
