 Snow" was given a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America.In 1931, Martha Mott Kelley and Richard Wilson Webb collaborated on the detective novel "Cottage Sinister".Kelley was known as Patsy (Patsy Kelly was a well-known character actress of that era) and Webb—an Englishman (born 1901 in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset) who worked for a pharmaceutical company in Philadelphia—was known as Rick, so they created the pseudonym Q. Patrick by combining their nicknames—adding the Q "because it was unusual".