Dead Still wins prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award in US
Updated / Wednesday, 5 May 2021
14:55
Kerr Logan, Michael Smiley and Eileen O Higgins in Dead Still
Dead Still creator and writer John Morton has been awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay for the show s debut episode Photochemistry.
The awards are issued by the Mystery Writers of America, honouring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television.
Created by Morton, and starring Michael Smiley, the droll dramedy is set in 1880s Dublin in the Victorian era heyday of postmortem photography , when a recently deceased loved one is pictured for posterity with their family.