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2004 Best Novel Resurrection Men Ian Rankin Little, Brown
2004 Best First Novel Death of a Nationalist Rebecca Pawel Soho Press
2004 Best Paperback Original Find Me Again Sylvia Maultash Warsh Dundurn Group
2004 Best Short Story The Maids G. Miki Hayden Berkley Prime Crime Anthology: Blood on Their Hands
2004 Best Fact Crime The Devil in the White City Erik Larson Random House - Crown Books
2004 Best Critical / Biographical Work Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith Andrew Wilson Bloomsbury
2004 Best Young Adult Acceleration Graham McNamee Wendy Lamb Books/Random House Childrens
2004 Best Juvenile Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the Belfry Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Simon & Schuster/Atheneum
2004 Best Episode in a TV Series Goodbye Peter Blake, David E. Kelley ABC Series: The Practice,
2004 Best Motion Picture Dirty Pretty Things Steve Knight BBC, Celador Productions, Jonescompany
2004 Special Edgars Home Box Office HBO Comment: Home Box Office, in recognition of the creation and production of their ground-breaking crime
2004 The Robert L Fish Memorial Award The Grass is Always Greener Sandy Balzo Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: March 2003
2004 The Raven Award In recognition of its long-standing work in collecting and preserving detective fiction Ray and Pat Browne Library for Popular Culture Studies Bowling Green State University
2004 The Raven Award In recognition of their coverage of True Crime Graydon Carter Vanity Fair Magazine Comment: Editor
2004 The Grand Master Joseph Wambaugh
2004 Mary Higgins Clark Award Song of the Bones M.K. Preston Intrigue Press
2003 Best Novel Winter and Night S.J. Rozan St. Martin's Minotaur
2003 Best First Novel The Blue Edge of Midnight Jonathon King Dutton
2003 Best Paperback Original Out of Sight T.J. MacGregor Pinnacle
2003 Best Short Story Mexican Gatsby Raymond Steiber Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: March
2003 Best Fact Crime Fire Lover Joseph Wambaugh Morrow
2003 Best Critical / Biographical Work Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction Mike Ashley Carroll & Graf
2003 Best Young Adult The Wessex Papers, Vols. 1-3 Daniel Parker Avon
2003 Best Juvenile Harriet Spies Again Helen Ericson Random House/Delacorte Press
2003 Best Episode in a TV Series Waste Dawn Denoon, Lisa Marie Petersen NBC/Universal Television Series: Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit,
2003 Best Motion Picture Chicago Bill Condon Miramax
2003 Best Play Easy Philip DePoy Horizon Theatre
2003 Special Edgars Dick Wolfe
2003 The Ellery Queen Award Ed Gorman
2003 The Robert L Fish Memorial Award War Can Be Murder Mike Doogan Anthology: Mysterious North
2003 The Raven Award Owner of Mysterious Bookshop Otto Penzler Mysterious Bookshop
2003 The Raven Award Owners of Book Carnival Pat Thomas, Ed Thomas Book Carnival
2003 The Raven Award Poe Museum of Richmond VA Poe Museum Poe Museum, Richmond, Virginia
2003 The Grand Master Ira Levin
2003 Mary Higgins Clark Award Absolute Certainty Rose Conners Scribners
2002 Best Novel Silent Joe T. Jefferson Parker Hyperion
2002 Best First Novel Line of Vision David Ellis G.P. Putnam's Sons
2002 Best Paperback Original Adios Muchachos Daniel Chavarria Akashic Books
2002 Best Short Story "Double-Crossing Delancy" S.J. Rozan Private Eye Writer's of America/Mystery Street/Penguin Putnam/Signet
2002 Best Fact Crime Son of a Grifter Kent Walker Wm. Morrow Comment: with Mark Schone
2002 Best Critical / Biographical Work Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z Dawn B. Sova Checkmark Books
2002 Best Young Adult The Boy in the Burning House Tim Wynne-Jones Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Melanie Kroupa Books
2002 Best Juvenile Dangling Lillian Eige Simon & Schuster/Atheneum
2002 Best Episode in a TV Series "The Pine Barrens" Tim Van Patten, Terence Winter HBO Series: The Sopranos,
2002 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries The Sins William Ivory BBC America 2002 Best Motion Picture Memento Christopher Nolan Newmarket Films Comment: Screenplay by
2002 Special Edgars Blake Edwards
2002 The Ellery Queen Award Janet Hutchings Comment: Respectively: Editor of ELLERY QUEEN MYSTERY MAGAZINE
2002 The Ellery Queen Award Cathleen Jordan Comment: Editor of ALFRED HITCHCOCK MYSTERY MAGAZINE
2002 The Robert L Fish Memorial Award "My Bonnie Lies" Ted Hertel, Jr. Anthology: Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers
2002 The Raven Award Charles Champlin Los Angeles Times Comment: LA Times Book Critic
2002 The Raven Award Anthony Mason CBS Comment: Sunday Morning's FINE PRINT
2002 The Raven Award Douglas Smith CBS Comment: Sunday Morning's FINE PRINT
2002 The Grand Master Robert B. Parker
2002 Mary Higgins Clark Award "Summer of Storms" Judith Kelman Putnam
2001 Best Novel The Bottoms Joe R. Lansdale Mysterious Press
2001 Best First Novel Conspiracy of Paper David Liss Random House
2001 Best Paperback Original The Black Maria Mark Graham Avon
2001 Best Short Story "Missing in Action" Peter Robinson Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Series: November
2001 Best Fact Crime Black Mass: The Irish Mob, The FBI, & A Devil's Deal Dick Lehr, Gerard O'Neill Public Affairs/Perseus Press
2001 Best Critical / Biographical Work Conundrums for the Long Week-End Ethan Lewis, Robert Kuhn McGregor Kent State University Press
2001 Best Young Adult Counterfeit Son Elaine Marie Alphin Harcourt, Inc.
2001 Best Juvenile Dovey Coe Frances O'Roark Dowell Simon & Schuster
2001 Best Episode in a TV Series "Limitations" Michael R. Perry NBC Series: Law & Order: SVU
2001 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Dalziel & Pascoe: On Beulah Height Michael Chaplin A & E Comment: based on the novel by Reginald Hill
2001 Best Motion Picture Traffic Stephen Gaghan Comment: based on the mini-series Traffik by Simon Moore
2001 Special Edgars Mildred Wirt Benson Comment: The original 'Carolyn Keene Author of the Nancy Drew Mystery Series
2001 The Ellery Queen Award Douglas G. Greene Crippen & Landru
2001 The Robert L Fish Memorial Award "The Witch and the Relic Thief" M.J. Jones Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Series: October
2001 The Raven Award Barbara Peters The Poisoned Pen
2001 The Raven Award Tom Schantz The Rue Morgue
2001 The Raven Award Enid Schantz The Rue Morgue
2001 The Grand Master Edward D. Hoch
2001 Mary Higgins Clark Award Authorized Personnel Only Barbara D'Amato Forge
2000 Best Novel Bones Jan Burke Simon & Schuster
2000 Best First Novel The Skull Mantra Eliot Pattison St. Martin's Press
2000 Best Paperback Original Fulton County Blues Ruth Birmingham Berkley Prime Books
2000 Best Short Story "Heroes" Anne Perry Delacorte Press Comment: edited by Otto Penzler
Anthology: Murder and Obsession
2000 Best Fact Crime Blind Eye James B. Stewart Simon & Schuster
2000 Best Critical / Biographical Work Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle Daniel Stashower Henry Holt & Sons
2000 Best Young Adult Never Trust a Dead Man Vivian Vande Velde Harcourt Brace 2000 Best Juvenile The Night Flyers Elizabeth McDavid Jones Pleasant Company Publications
2000 Best Episode in a TV Series "Refuge, Part 2" Rene Balcer NBC Series: Law & Order
2000 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries A Slight Case of Murder William H. Macy, Steven Schachter TNT Comment: based on a novel by David Westlake,
2000 Best Motion Picture Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Guy Ritchie Polygram Comment: screenplay by
2000 Best Play The Art of Murder Joe Di Pietro Comment: Produced by Jonathan Pollard, George W. George & James N. Vagias, The American Stage Company's Becton Theatre, March 3, 1999
2000 The Ellery Queen Award Susanne Kirk 2000 The Robert L Fish Memorial Award "Cro-Magnon, P.I." Mike Reiss Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Series: July/August
2000 The Raven Award Harold Augenbraum The Mercantile Library Comment: Director
2000 The Grand Master Mark Higgins Clark
1999 Best Novel Mr. White's Confession Robert Clark Picador USA
1999 Best First Novel A Cold Day in Paradise Steve Hamilton St. Martin's Press
1999 Best Paperback Original The Widower's Two-Step Rick Riordan Bantam
1999 Best Short Story "Poachers" Tom Franklin The Texas Review Series: Fall/Winter '98
1999 Best Fact Crime To The Last Breath Carlton Stowers St. Martin's Press
1999 Best Critical / Biographical Work Mystery and Suspense Writers Maureen Corrigan, Robin W. Winks
Scribners Comment: associate editor, editor in chief
1999 Best Young Adult The Killer's Cousin Nancy Werlin Delacorte Press
1999 Best Juvenile Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief Wendelin Van Draanen Knopf
1999 Best Episode in a TV Series "Bad Girl" Rene Balcer, Richard Sweren NBC Series: Law & Order, Law & Order
1999 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Law & Order: Exiled Charles Kipps NBC
1999 Best Motion Picture Out of Sight Scott Frank Universal
1999 Best Play Voices in the Dark John Pielmeier
Comment: Produced by the George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, New Jersey
1999 The Ellery Queen Award Sara Ann Freed
1999 The Robert L Fish Memorial Award "Clarity" Bryn Bonner Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Series: May '98
1999 The Raven Award Steven Bochco
1999 The Grand Master P.D. James
1998 Best Novel Cimarron Rose James Lee Burke Hyperion
1998 Best First Novel Los Alamos Joseph Kanon Broadway Books
1998 Best Paperback Original Charm City Laura Lippman Avon
1998 Best Short Story "Keller on the Spot" Lawrence Block Playboy Volume: November
1998 Best Fact Crime The Death of Innocents Richard Firstman, Jamie Talan Bantam
1998 Best Critical / Biographical Work G is for Grafton: The World of Kinsey Millhone Natalie Hevener Kaufman, Carol McGinnis Kay Henry Holt
1998 Best Young Adult Ghost Canoe Will Hobbs Morrow Junior Books
1998 Best Juvenile Sparrows in the Scullery Barbara Brooks Wallace Atheneum
1998 Best Episode in a TV Series "Double Down" Richard Sweren, Simon Wincelberg, Ed Zuckerman NBC Comment: story by,
Series: Law & Order,
1998 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Blood, Sweat, and Tears John Milne A & E Series: Silent Witness
1998 Best Motion Picture L.A. Confidential Curtis Hanson, Brian Helgeland Warner Bros.
1998 Best Play The Red Death David Barr Comment: adaptation by
1998 The Ellery Queen Award Hiroshi Hayakawa Comment: President of Hayakawa Publishing
1998 The Robert L Fish Memorial Award "If Thine Eye Offend Thee" Rosaland Roland Crown Valley Press Anthology: Murder X 13
1998 The Raven Award Sylvia K. Burack The Writer Magazine Comment: Editor
1998 The Grand Master Barbara Mertz Comment: aka Elizabeth Peters & Barbara Michaels
1997 Best Novel The Chatham School Affair Thomas H. Cook Bantam
1997 Best First Novel Simple Justice John Morgan Wilson Doubleday
1997 Best Paperback Original Fade Away Harlan Coben Dell
1997 Best Short Story "Red Clay" Michael Malone Delacorte Press Anthology: Murder for Love
1997 Best Fact Crime Power To Hurt Darcy O'Brien HarperCollins 1997 Best Critical / Biographical Work The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes Michael Atkinson University of Michigan Press
1997 Best Young Adult Twisted Summer Willo Davis Roberts Atheneum
1997 Best Juvenile The Clearing Dorothy Reynolds Miller Atheneum 1997 Best Episode in a TV Series "Deadbeat" I.C. Rapoport, Ed Zuckerman NBC Series: Law & Order,
1997 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Brotherly Love Jimmy McGovern A & E Series: Cracker
1997 Best Motion Picture Sling Blade Billy Bob Thorton Miramax
1997 The Ellery Queen Award Francois Guerif
1997 The Robert L Fish Memorial Award "Prosecutor of DuPrey" David Vaughn Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: Jan '96
1997 The Raven Award Marvin Lachman
1997 The Grand Master Ruth Rendell
1996 Best Novel Come to Grief Dick Francis Putnam
1996 Best First Novel Penance David Housewright Foul Play/Countryman Press Anthology: Foul Play
1996 Best Paperback Original Tarnished Blue William Heffernan Onyx
1996 Best Short Story "The Judge's Boy" Jean B Cooper Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: August '95
1996 Best Fact Crime Circumstantial Evidence Pete Earley Bantam
1996 Best Critical / Biographical Work Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson Robert Polito Knopf
1996 Best Young Adult Prophecy Rock Rob MacGregor Simon & Schuster 1996 Best Juvenile Looking for Jamie Bridger Nancy Springer Dial
1996 Best Episode in a TV Series "Torah! Torah! Torah!" Theresa Rebeck Steven Bochco Productions Series: NYPD Blue/ABC
1996 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Citizen X Chris Gerolmo HBO 1996 Best Motion Picture The Usual Suspects Christopher McQuarrie Gramercy Pictures, PolyGRam Bad Hat Harry, Blue Parrot
1996 The Ellery Queen Award Jacques Barzun
1996 The Robert L Fish Memorial Award "The Word for Breaking August Sky" James Sarafin Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Volume: July '95
1996 The Raven Award Library of America Comment: for their publication of the collected writings of Raymond Chandler
1996 The Grand Master Dick Francis
1995 Best Novel The Red Scream Mary Willis Walker Doubleday
1995 Best First Novel The Caveman's Valentine George Dawes Green Warner Books
1995 Best Paperback Original Final Appeal Lisa Scottoline Harper
1995 Best Short Story "The Dancing Bear" Doug Allyn Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Volume: March '94
1995 Best Fact Crime To Protect and Serve Joe Domanick Pocket Books 1995 Best Critical / Biographical Work Encyclopedia Mysteriosa William L. DeAndrea Prentice-Hall
1995 Best Young Adult Toughing It Nancy Springer Harcourt Brace
1995 Best Juvenile The Absolutely True Story..How I Visited Yellowstone Park with the Terrible Rubes Willo Davis Roberts Atheneum
1995 Best Episode in a TV Series "Simone Says" Steven Bochco, Walon Green, David Milch Twentieth Century Fox/ABC-TV Series: NYPD Blue,
1995 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Cracker: To Say I Love You Jimmy McGovern A & E Series: A & E Mystery
1995 Best Motion Picture Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino Miramax
1995 The Ellery Queen Award Martin Greenberg 1995 The Robert L Fish Memorial Award "Me and Mr. Harry" Batya Swift Yasgur Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: December '94
1995 The Raven Award Dr. Paul LeClerc New York Public Library Comment: President
1995 The Grand Master Mickey Spillane
1994 Best Novel The Sculptress Minette Walters St. Martin's Press
1994 Best First Novel A Grave Talent Laurie R. King St. Martin's Press
1994 Best Paperback Original Dead Folk's Blues Steven Womack Ballantine
1994 Best Short Story "Keller's Therapy" Lawrence Block Playboy Volume: May '93
1994 Best Fact Crime Until the Twelfth of Never Bella Stumbo Pocket Books
1994 Best Critical / Biographical Work The Saint: A Complete History Burl Barer McFarland & Co.
1994 Best Young Adult The Name of the Game Was Murder Joan Lowery Nixon Delacorte Press
1994 Best Juvenile The Twin in the Tavern Barbara Brooks Wallace Atheneum
1994 Best Episode in a TV Series "4B or Not 4B" David Milch ABC Series: NYPD Blue
1994 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Prime Suspect 2 Allan Cubitt WGBH Series: Mystery!
1994 Best Motion Picture Falling Down Ebbe Rose Smith Warner Bros.
1994 The Ellery Queen Award Otto Penzler 1994 The Robert L Fish Memorial Award "Wicked Twist" D.A. McGuire Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Volume: October '93
1994 The Grand Master Lawrence Block 1993 Best Novel Bootlegger's Daughter Margaret Maron Mysterious Press
1993 Best First Novel The Black Echo Michael Connelly Little, Brown
1993 Best Paperback Original A Cold Day for Murder Dana Stabenow Berkley
1993 Best Short Story "Mary, Mary, Shut the Door" Benjamin M. Schutz Doubleday Anthology: Deadly Allies
1993 Best Fact Crime Swift Justice Harry Farrell St. Martin's Press
1993 Best Critical / Biographical Work Alias S. S. Van Dine John Loughery Scribners
1993 Best Young Adult A Little Bit Dead Chap Reaver Delacorte Press
1993 Best Juvenile Coffin on a Case! Eve Bunting HarperCollins
1993 Best Episode in a TV Series "Conspiracy" Rene Balcer, Michael S. Chernuchin NBC-TV Series: Law & Order,
1993 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Prime Suspect Lynda LaPlante WGBH Series: Mystery!
1993 Best Motion Picture The Player Michael Tolkin Fineline Features
1993 The Robert L Fish Memorial Award "A Will Is A Way" Stephen Saylor Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: March '92
1993 The Raven Award President Bill Clinton Comment: Reader of the Year
1993 The Grand Master Donald E. Westlake
1992 Best Novel A Dance at the Slaughterhouse Lawrence Block Wm. Morrow
1992 Best First Novel Slow Motion Riot Peter Blauner Wm. Morrow
1992 Best Paperback Original Dark Maze Thomas Adcock Pocket Books
1992 Best Short Story "Nine Sons" Wendy Hornsby Berkley Anthology: Sisters in Crime 4
1992 Best Fact Crime Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets David Simon Houghton Mifflin
1992 Best Critical / Biographical Work Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance Kenneth Silverman HarperCollins
1992 Best Young Adult The Weirdo Theodore Taylor Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
1992 Best Juvenile Wanted...Mud Blossom Betsy Byars Delacorte Press
1992 Best Episode in a TV Series "Poirot: The Lost Mine" Michael Baker, David Renwick WGBH Comment: Mystery!,
Series: Hercule Poirot, 1992 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Murder 101 Bill Condon, Roy Johansen USA
1992 Best Motion Picture The Silence of the Lambs Ted Tally Orion 1992 The Ellery Queen Award Margaret Norton 1992 The Raven Award Harold Q. Masur Comment: for his years of service to MWA as general counsel
1992 The Grand Master Elmore Leonard 1991 Best Novel New Orleans Mourning Julie Smith St. Martin's Press 1991 Best First Novel Postmortem Patricia D. Cornwell Scribners 1991 Best Paperback Original The Man Who Would Be F.Scott Fitzgerald David Handler Bantam
1991 Best Short Story "Elvis Lives" Lynne Barrett Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: September '90
1991 Best Fact Crime In a Child's Name Peter Maas Simon & Schuster 1991 Best Critical / Biographical Work Trouble is Their Business: Private Eyes in Fiction, Film, and Television, 1927-1988 John Conquest Garland
1991 Best Young Adult Mote Chap Reaver Delacorte Press
1991 Best Juvenile Stonewords Pam Conrad Harper & Row
1991 Best Episode in a TV Series "Goodnight, Dear Heart" Paul Brown NBC-TV Series: Quantum Leap
1991 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Killing in a Small Town Cynthia Cidre CBS-TV
1991 Best Motion Picture The Grifters Donald E. Westlake Miramax
1991 Best Play Accomplice Rupart Holmes 1991 Special Edgars The Encyclopedia of World Crime, Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Law Enforcement Jay Robert Nash Crime Books, Inc.
1991 The Robert L Fish Memorial Award "Willie's Story" Jerry F. Skarky Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Volume: June '90
1991 The Raven Award Carol Brener Comment: for her skill in selling books to the public
1991 The Raven Award Sarah Booth Conroy Comment: Reader of the Year
1991 The Grand Master Tony Hillerman 1990 Best Novel Black Cherry Blues James Lee Burke Little, Brown
1990 Best First Novel The Last Billable Hour Susan Wolfe St. Martin's Press
1990 Best Paperback Original The Rain Keith Peterson Bantam 1990 Best Short Story "Too Many Crooks" Donald E. Westlake Playboy Volume: August '89
1990 Best Fact Crime Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell Jack Olsen Atheneum
1990 Best Critical / Biographical Work The Life of Graham Greene Norman Sherry Viking Volume: Volume I: 1904-1939
1990 Best Young Adult Show Me the Evidence Alane Ferguson Bradbury
1990 Best Episode in a TV Series "White Noise" David J. Burke, Alfonse Ruggiero Jr. CBS-TV Series: Wiseguy,
1990 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Shannon's Deal John Sayles NBC-TV
1990 Best Motion Picture Heathers Daniel Waters New World
1990 Best Play City of Angels Larry Gelbart Comment: music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by David Zippel
1990 The Ellery Queen Award Joel Davis
1990 The Robert L Fish Memorial Award "Hawks" Connie Colt Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Volume: June '89
1990 The Grand Master Helen McCloy
1989 Best Novel A Cold Red Sunrise Stuart M. Kaminsky Scribners
1989 Best First Novel Carolina Skeletons David Stout Mysterious Press
1989 Best Paperback Original The Telling of Lies Timothy Findley Dell
1989 Best Short Story "Flicks" Bill Crenshaw Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Volume: August '88
1989 Best Fact Crime In Broad Daylight Harry N. MacLean Harper & Row
1989 Best Critical / Biographical Work Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die Francis M. Nevins, Jr. Mysterious Press
1989 Best Young Adult Incident at Loring Groves Sonia Levitin Dial
1989 Best Juvenile Megan's Island Willo Davis Roberts Atheneum
1989 Best Episode in a TV Series "The Devil's Foot" Gary Hopkins WGBH Series: Mystery!
1989 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Man Against the Mob David J. Kinghorn NBC-TV
1989 Best Motion Picture The Thin Blue Line Errol Morris Miramax
1989 Special Edgars Joan Kahn Comment: on her retirement after 50 years in mystery publishing
1989 The Ellery Queen Award Richard Levinson
1989 The Ellery Queen Award William Link
1989 The Robert L Fish Memorial Award "Different Drummers" Linda O. Johnston Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: July '88
1989 The Raven Award Bouchercon Annual World Mystery Convention Comment: The Bouchercon Annual World Mystery Convention
1989 The Raven Award Shear Madness Marilyn Abrams, Bruce Jordan Cranberry Productions Comment: for longest running off-Broadway play,
1989 The Grand Master Hillary Waugh
1988 Best Novel Old Bones Aaron Elkins Mysterious Press
1988 Best First Novel Death Among Strangers Deidre S. Laiken Macmillan
1988 Best Paperback Original Bimbos of the Death Sun Sharyn McCrumb TSR
1988 Best Short Story "Soft Monkey" Harlan Ellison Fedora, Inc. Anthology: Mystery Scene Reader
1988 Best Fact Crime CBS Murders Richard Hammer Wm. Morrow 1988 Best Critical / Biographical Work Introduction to the Detective Story Leroy Lad Panek Popular Press
1988 Best Juvenile Lucy Forever and Miss Rosetree, Shrinks Susan Shreve Henry Holt 1988 Best Episode in a TV Series "The Musgrave Ritual" Jeremy Paul WGBH Series: Mystery!
1988 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Nutcracker: Money, Murder, and Madness William Hanley NBC-TV
1988 Best Motion Picture Stakeout Jim Kouf Buena Vista Pictures
1988 The Ellery Queen Award Ruth Cavin 1988 The Robert L Fish Memorial Award "Roger, Mr. Whilkie!" Eric M Heideman Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Volume: July '87
1988 The Raven Award Angela Lansbury
1988 The Raven Award Vincent Price
1988 The Grand Master Phyllis A. Whitney
1987 Best Novel A Dark-Adapted Eye Barbara Vine Bantam
1987 Best First Novel No One Rides for Free Larry Beinhart Wm. Morrow
1987 Best Paperback Original The Junkyard Dog Robert Campbell Signet
1987 Best Short Story "Rain in Pinton County" Robert Sampson New Black Mask Volume: May '86
1987 Best Fact Crime Careless Whispers: The True Story of a Triple Murder and the Determined Lawman Who Wouldn't Give Up Carlton Stowers Taylor
1987 Best Critical / Biographical Work Here Lies: An Autobiography Eric Ambler Farrar, Straus, Giroux
1987 Best Juvenile The Other Side of Dark Joan Lowery Nixon Delacorte Press
1987 Best Episode in a TV Series "The Cup" David Jackson CBS-TV Series: The Equalizer
1987 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries When the Bough Breaks Phil Penningroth NBC-TV
1987 Best Motion Picture Something Wild E. Max Frye Orion
1987 The Ellery Queen Award Eleanor Sullivan
1987 The Robert L Fish Memorial Award "Father to the Man" Mary Kittredge Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Volume: November '86
1987 The Grand Master Michael Gilbert
1986 Best Novel The Suspect L.R. Wright Viking
1986 Best First Novel When the Bough Breaks Jonathan Kellerman Atheneum
1986 Best Paperback Original Pigs Get Fat Warren Murphy NAL
1986 Best Short Story "Ride the Lightening" John Lutz Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Volume: January '85
1986 Best Fact Crime Savage Grace Stephen M.L. Aronson, Natalie Robins Wm. Morrow
1986 Best Critical / Biographical Work John le Carre Peter Lewis Ungar
1986 Best Juvenile The Sandman's Eyes Patricia Windsor Delacorte Press
1986 Best Episode in a TV Series "The Amazing Falsworth" Mick Garris NBC-TV Series: Amazing Stories
1986 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Guilty Conscience Richard Levinson, William Link CBS-TV
1986 Best Motion Picture Witness William Kelley, Earl W. Wallace Paramount
1986 Best Play The Mystery of Edwin Drood Rupart Holmes Comment: New York Shakespeare Festival
1986 Special Edgars Detective and Mystery Fiction: An International Bibliography of Secondary Sources Walter Albert Brownstone Books
1986 The Robert L Fish Memorial Award "Final Rites" Doug Allyn Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Volume: December '85
1986 The Raven Award Suzi Oppenheimer Comment: Reader of the Year
1986 The Grand Master Ed McBain
1985 Best Novel Briar Patch Ross Thomas Simon & Schuster
1985 Best First Novel Strike Three, You're Dead R.D. Rosen Walker
1985 Best Paperback Original Grandmaster Molly Cochran, Warren Murphy Pinnacle
1985 Best Short Story "By Dawn's Early Light" Lawrence Block Playboy Volume: August '84
1985 Best Fact Crime Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings Mike Weiss Addison-Wesley
1985 Best Critical / Biographical Work Novel Verdicts: A Guide to Courtroom Fiction Jon L. Breen Scarecrow Press
1985 Best Juvenile Night Cry Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Atheneum
1985 Best Episode in a TV Series "Deadly Lady" Peter S. Fischer CBS-TV Series: Murder, She Wrote
1985 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries The Glitter Dome Stanley Kallis HBO
1985 Best Motion Picture A Soldier's Story Charles Fuller Columbia
1985 Special Edgars The Silent Shame Mark Nykaned NBC-TV Comment: news reprt on child-abuse crimes
1985 The Ellery Queen Award Joan Kahn 1985 The Robert L Fish Memorial Award "Poor Dumb Mouths" Bill Crenshaw Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Volume: May '84
1985 The Raven Award Eudora Welty Comment: Reader of the Year
1985 The Grand Master Dorothy Salisbury Davis
1984 Best Novel La Brava Elmore Leonard Arbor House
1984 Best First Novel The Bay Psalm Book Murder Will Harriss Walker
1984 Best Paperback Original Mrs. White Margaret Tracy Dell
1984 Best Short Story "The New Girlfriend" Ruth Rendell Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: August '83
1984 Best Fact Crime Very Much A Lady Shana Alexander Little, Brown
1984 Best Critical / Biographical Work The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock Donald Spoto Little, Brown
1984 Best Juvenile The Callender Papers Cynthia Voigt Atheneum
1984 Best Episode in a TV Series "The Pencil" Jo Eisinger HBO Series: Philip Marlowe
1984 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Mickey Spillane's Murder Me, Murder You Bill Stratton CBS-TV
1984 Best Motion Picture Gorky Park Dennis Potter Orion
1984 Special Edgars A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle John Michael Gibson, Richard Lancelyn Green Oxford University Press
1984 The Robert L Fish Memorial Award "Locked Doors" Lilly Carlson Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: October '83
1984 The Raven Award Sylvia Porter Comment: Reader of the Year
1984 The Grand Master John le Carre
1983 Best Novel Billingsgate Shoal Rick Boyer Houghton Mifflin
1983 Best First Novel The Butcher'sBoy Thomas Perry Scribners
1983 Best Paperback Original Triangle Teri White Ace/Charter
1983 Best Short Story "There Are No Snakes in Ireland" Frederick Forsyth Viking Anthology: No Comebacks
1983 Best Fact Crime The Vatican Connection Richard Hammer Holt, Rinehart & Winston
1983 Best Critical / Biographical Work Cain Roy Hoopes Holt, Rinehart & Winston
1983 Best Juvenile The Murder of Hound Dog Bates Robbie Branscum Viking
1983 Best Episode in a TV Series "In The Steele of the Night" Joel Steiger NBC-TV Series: Remington Steele
1983 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Rehearsal for Murder Richard Levinson, William Link CBS-TV
1983 Best Motion Picture The Long Good Friday Barrie Keefe Handmade Films
1983 Special Edgars The Case of Dashiell Hammett Stephen Talbot PBS
1983 The Ellery Queen Award Emma Lathen Comment: AKA: Mary Jane Latsis and Martha Henissart
1983 The Raven Award Isaac Bashevis Singer Comment: Reader of the Year
1983 The Grand Master Margaret Millar
1982 Best Novel Peregrine William Bayer Congdon & Lattes
1982 Best First Novel Chiefs Stuart Woods W.W. Norton & Co.
1982 Best Paperback Original The Old Dick L.A. Morse Avon
1982 Best Short Story "The Absence of Emily" Jack Ritchie Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: January '81 1982 Best Fact Crime The Sting Man Robert W. Greene Dutton
1982 Best Critical / Biographical Work What About Murder? Jon L. Breen Scarecrow Press
1982 Best Juvenile Taking Terri Mueller Norma Fox Mazer Avon 1982 Best Episode in a TV Series "Hill Street Station" Steven Bochco, Michael Kozoll NBC-TV Series: Hill Street Blues,
1982 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Lilljoy Sam H. Rolfe CBS-TV
1982 Best Motion Picture Cutter's Way Jeffrey Alan Fiskin United Artists
1982 Best Play A Talent for Murder Jerome Chodorov, Norman Panama
1982 Special Edgars The Young Detective's Handbook William Vivian Butler HBO Comment: production of the William Gillette play
1982 The Grand Master Julian Symons
1981 Best Novel Whip Hand Dick Francis Harper & Row
1981 Best First Novel The Watcher K. Nolte Smith Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
1981 Best Paperback Original Public Murders Bill Granger Jove Books
1981 Best Short Story "Horn Man" Clark Howard Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: July '80
1981 Best Fact Crime A True Deliverance Fred Harwell Knopf
1981 Best Critical / Biographical Work Twentiety Century Crime and Mystery Writers John Reilly St. Martin's Press
1981 Best Juvenile The Seance Joan Lowery Nixon Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1981 Best Episode in a TV Series "China Doll" Donald P. Bellisario, Glen A. Larson CBS-TV Series: Magnum P.I.,
1981 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries City in Fear Albert Ruben ABC
1981 Best Motion Picture The Black Marble Joseph Wambaugh AVCO-Embassy
1981 Best Play Ricochet Paul Nathan Comment: off-Broadway show
1981 Special Edgars Lawrence Spivak Comment: founding publisher of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine 40 years ago
1981 Special Edgars Mystery! Joan Wilson Comment: best in international programming
Series: PBS 1981 Special Edgars The Edge of Night unknown Comment: celebrating its 25th year as a TV series
1981 The Grand Master Stanley Ellin
1980 Best Novel The Rheingold Route Arthur Maling Harper & Row
1980 Best First Novel The Lasko Tangent Richard North Patterson W.W. Norton & Co.
1980 Best Paperback Original The Hog Murders William L. DeAndrea Avon
1980 Best Short Story "Armed and Dangerous" Geoffrey Norman Esquire Volume: March '79
1980 Best Fact Crime The Falcon and the Snowman Robert Lindsey Simon & Schuster
1980 Best Critical / Biographical Work Dorothy L. Sayers, A Literary Biography Ralph E. Hone Kent State University Press
1980 Best Juvenile The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore Joan Lowery Nixon Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
1980 Best Episode in a TV Series "Skin" Robin Chapman, Roald Dahl Anglia Ltd. Series: Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected,
1980 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Murder by Natural Causes Richard Levinson, William Link CBS-TV
1980 Best Motion Picture The Great Train Robbery Michael Crichton United Artists
1980 Best Play Death Trap Ira Levin 1980 Special Edgars Dick Tracy Chester Gould Comment: creator of Dick Tracy nearly 50 years ago
1980 Special Edgars The Bibliography of Crimie Fiction, 1749 - 1975 Allen J Hubin University Extension/University of California
1980 Special Edgars The Murderers' Who's Who J.H.H. Gaute, Robin Odell
1980 The Raven Award "Muppet Murders" Muppet Show
1980 The Grand Master W.R. Burnett
1979 Best Novel The Eye of the Needle Ken Follett Arbor House
1979 Best First Novel Killed in the Ratings William L. DeAndrea Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
1979 Best Paperback Original Deceit and Deadly Lies Frank Bandy Charter
1979 Best Short Story "The Cloud Beneath The Eaves" Barbara Owens Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: January '78
1979 Best Fact Crime Til Death Do Us Part Vincent Bugliosi, Ken Hurwitz W.W. Norton & Co.
1979 Best Critical / Biographical Work The Mystery of Agatha Christie Gwen Robins Doubleday
1979 Best Juvenile Alone in Wolf Hollow Dana Brookins Seabury Press 1979 Best Episode in a TV Series "Murder Under Glass" Robert Van Scoyk NBC-TV Series: Columbo
1979 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Dashiell Hammett's The DainCurse Robert Lenski CBS-TV
1979 Best Motion Picture Magic William Goldman Twentieth Century Fox
1979 Special Edgars Frederic Dannay Comment: celebrating 50 years since the publication of his first novel
1979 Special Edgars Mignon C. Eberhart Comment: celebrating 50 years since the publicaton of his first novel
1979 Special Edgars Columbo and Ellery Queen TV series Richard Levinson, William Link 1979 The Raven Award Alberto Tedeschi Mondadori Comment: publisher of the most succesful Italian series of mysteries
1979 The Grand Master Aaron Marc Stein
1978 Best Novel Catch Me: Kill Me William H. Hallahan Bobbs-Merrill
1978 Best First Novel A French Finish Robert Ross Putnam
1978 Best Paperback Original The Quark Maneuver Mike Jahn Ballantine
1978 Best Short Story "Chance After Chance" Thomas Walsh Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: November '77
1978 Best Fact Crime By Persons Unknown Barbara Amiel, George Jonas Grove Press
1978 Best Critical / Biographical Work Rex Stout John McAleer Little, Brown
1978 Best Juvenile A Really Weird Summer Eloise Jarvis McGraw Atheneum
1978 Best Episode in a TV Series "The Thighbone Is Connected to the Knee Bone" Tony Lawrence, Lou Shaw NBC-TV Series: Quincy,
1978 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Men Who Love Women Gordon Cotler, Don M. Mankiewicz NBC-TV Series: Rosetti and Ryan pilot,
1978 Best Motion Picture The Late Show Robert Benton Warner Bros.
1978 Special Edgars Allen J Hubin Comment: for a decade as editor of The Armchair Detective
1978 Special Edgars Murder Ink Dilys Winn Workman
1978 Special Edgars Mystery Writer's Handbook Lawrence Treat Comment: edited by
1978 The Raven Award Barney Miller Danny Arnold ABC Comment: executive producer of the TV series
1978 The Raven Award Dracula on Broadway Edwin Gorey Comment: for the sets he designed for Dracula on Broadway
1978 The Raven Award I Am My Brother's Keeper Richard N. Hughes WPIX Comment: for being the best showcase for mystery stories
1978 The Grand Master Daphne du Maurier
1978 The Grand Master Dorothy B. Hughes
1978 The Grand Master Ngaio Marsh
1977 Best Novel Promised Land Robert B. Parker Houghton Mifflin
1977 Best First Novel The Thomas Berryman Number James Patterson Little, Brown
1977 Best Paperback Original Confess, Fletch Gregory McDonald Avon
1977 Best Short Story "Like a Terrible Scream" Etta Revesz Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: May '76
1977 Best Fact Crime Blood and Money Thomas Thompson Doubleday
1977 Best Critical / Biographical Work Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection Marvin Lachman, Otto Penzler, Charles Shibuk, Chris Steinbrunner McGraw-Hill
1977 Best Juvenile Are You in the House Alone? Richard Peck Viking
1977 Best Episode in a TV Series "Requiem for Murder" James J. Sweeney ABC Series: Streets of San Francisco
1977 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Helter-Skelter J.P. Miller CBS-TV
1977 Best Motion Picture Family Plot Ernest Lehman Universal
1976 Best Novel Hopscotch Brian Garfield M. Evans
1976 Best First Novel The Alvarez Journal Rex Burns Harper & Row
1976 Best Paperback Original Autopsy John R. Feegel Avon 1976 Best Short Story "The Jail" Jesse Hill Ford Playboy Volume: March '75
1976 Best Fact Crime A Time To Die Tom Wicker Quadrangle NY Times
1976 Best Juvenile Z for Zachariah Robert C. O'Brien Atheneum
1976 Best Episode in a TV Series "No Immunity for Murder" Joe Gores CBS-TV Series: Kojak
1976 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries The Legend of Lizzie Borden William Bast ABC
1976 Best Motion Picture Three Days of the Condor David Rayfiel, Lorenzo Semple Jr. Paramount
1976 Special Edgars Jorge Luis Borges Comment: for distinguished contribution to the mystery genre
1976 Special Edgars Encyclopedia Brown books Donald J. Sobol Comment: juvenile mystery
1976 The Raven Award Eddie Lawrence Comment: Reader of the Year
1976 The Raven Award Leo Margolies Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Comment: editor
1976 The Grand Master Graham Greene
1975 Best Novel Peter's Pence Jon Cleary Wm. Morrow
1975 Best First Novel Fletch Gregory McDonald Bobbs-Merrill
1975 Best Paperback Original The Corpse That Walked Roy Winsor Fawcett
1975 Best Short Story "The Fallen Curtain" Ruth Rendell Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: August '74
1975 Best Fact Crime Helter Skelter Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry W.W. Norton & Co.
1975 Best Juvenile The Dangling Witness Jay Bennett Delacorte Press
1975 Best Episode in a TV Series "Requiem for C.Z. Smith" Roberts Collins NBC-TV Series: Police Story
1975 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries The Law Joel Oliansky NBC-TV
1975 Best Motion Picture Chinatown Robert Towne Paramount
1975 Special Edgars Howard Haycraft Comment: for his distinguished contribution to mystery criticism and scholarship
1975 Special Edgars Royal Bloodline: Ellery Queen, Author and Detective Francis M. Nevins, Jr. Bowling Green Popular Press
1975 The Raven Award ABC Comment: for its World Wide Mystery series
1975 The Raven Award Royal Shakespeare Company Comment: for the company's revival of the play
1975 The Raven Award Radio Mystery Theatre CBS Comment: for the Hy Brown nightly mysteries
Series: Radio Mystery Theatre
1975 Book Jacket Award Tales of the Black Widowers Doubleday Comment: hardcover
1975 Book Jacket Award The Hubschmann Effect Pocket Books Comment: softcover
1975 The Grand Master Eric Ambler 1974 Best Novel Dance Hall of the Dead Tony Hillerman Harper & Row
1974 Best First Novel The Billion Dollar Sure Thing Paul E. Erdman Scribners
1974 Best Paperback Original Death of an Informer Will Perry Pyramid 1974 Best Short Story "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs" Harlan Ellison Thomas M. Disch Anthology: Bad Moon Rising
1974 Best Fact Crime Legacy of Death Barbara Levy Prentice-Hall
1974 Best Juvenile The Long Black Coat Jay Bennett Delacorte Press
1974 Best Episode in a TV Series "Requiem for an Informer" Sy Salkowitz NBC-TV Series: Police Story
1974 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Isn't It Shocking Lane Slate ABC
1974 Best Motion Picture The Last of Sheila Anthony Perkins, Stephen Sondheim Warner Bros.
1974 Special Edgars The Onion Field Joseph Wambaugh Delacorte Press
1974 Book Jacket Award Reprisal Dodd, Mead Comment: hardcover
1974 Book Jacket Award The Abductor Curtis Books Comment: softcover
1974 The Grand Master Ross Macdonald Comment: Ross Macdonald was the pseudonym used by Kenneth Millar
1973 Best Novel The Lingala Code Warren Kiefer Random House
1973 Best First Novel Squaw Point R.H. Shimer Harper & Row
1973 Best Paperback Original The Invader Richard Wormser Gold Medal
1973 Best Short Story "The Purple Shroud" Joyce Harrington Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: September '72
1973 Best Fact Crime Hoax Lewis Chester, Stephen Fay, Magnus Linkletter Viking
1973 Best Juvenile Deathwatch Robb White Doubleday 1973 Best Episode in a TV Series "The New Mexico Connection" Glen A. Larson NBC-TV Series: McCloud
1973 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries The Night Stalker Richard Matheson ABC
1973 Best Motion Picture Sleuth Anthony Shaffer Twentieth Century Fox
1973 Special Edgars Mortal Consequences: A History from the Detective Story to the Crime Novel Julian Symons Harper & Row
1973 Special Edgars Murder on the Menu Jeanine Larmoth, Charlotte Turgeon Scribners
1973 Book Jacket Award Fetish Murders Ace Comment: softcover
1973 Book Jacket Award The Erection Set E.P. Dutton Comment: hardcover
1973 The Grand Master Alfred Hitchcock
1973 The Grand Master Judson Philips 1972 Best Novel The Day of the Jackal Frederick Forsyth Viking
1972 Best First Novel Finding Maubee A.H.Z. Carr Putnam
1972 Best Paperback Original For Murder I Charge More Frank McAuliffe Ballantine
1972 Best Short Story "Moonlight Gardener" Robert L. Fish Argosy Volume: December '71
1972 Best Fact Crime Beyond A Reasonable Doubt Sandor Frankel Stein & Day
1972 Best Juvenile Nightfall Joan Aiken Holt, Rinehart & Winston
1972 Best Episode in a TV Series "A Step in Time" Mann Rubin CBS-TV Series: Mannix
1972 Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Thief John D.F. Black ABC
1972 Best Motion Picture The French Connection Ernest Tidyman Twentieth Century Fox
1972 Special Edgars A Catalogue of Crime Jacques Barzun, Wendell Taylor Harper & Row
1972 Book Jacket Award Black Man, White Man Ace Comment: softcover
1972 Book Jacket Award If You Want to See Your Wife Again G.P. Putnam's Sons Comment: hardcover
1972 The Grand Master John D. MacDonald 1971 Best Novel The Laughing Policeman Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo Pantheon
1971 Best First Novel The Anderson Tapes Lawrence Sanders Putnam
1971 Best Paperback Original Flashpoint Dan J. Marlowe Gold Medal
1971 Best Short Story "In The Forests of Riga the Beasts Are Very Wild Indeed" Maragret Finn Brown McCall's Volume: July '70
1971 Best Fact Crime A Great Fall Mildred Savage Simon & Schuster
1971 Best Juvenile The Intruder John Rowe Townsend Lippincott
1971 Best Episode in a TV Series "Berlin Affair" E. Jack Neuman, Richard Alan Simmons NBC-TV Series: Movie of the Week,
1971 Best Motion Picture Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion Ellio Petri, Ugo Pirro Columbia
1971 Best Play Sleuth Anthony Shaffer Comment: performed at the Imperial Theater
1971 The Raven Award Judith Crist Comment: Reader of the Year
1971 Book Jacket Award Act of Violence Dodd, Mead Comment: hardcover
1971 Book Jacket Award Last Case Avon Comment: softcover
Series: Classic Crime Collection
1971 The Grand Master Mignon C. Eberhart
1970 Best Novel Forfeit Dick Francis Harper & Row
1970 Best First Novel A Time for Predators Joe Gores Random House
1970 Best Paperback Original The Dragon's Eye Scott C.S. Stone Gold Medal
1970 Best Short Story "Goodbye, Pops" Joe Gores Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: December '69
1970 Best Fact Crime The Case That Will Not Die Herbert B. Ehrmann Little, Brown
1970 Best Juvenile Danger at Black Dyke Winfred Finlay S.G. Phillips
1970 Best Episode in a TV Series "Daughter of the Mind" Luther Davis ABC Series: Movie of the Week
1970 Best Motion Picture Z Costa Gavras, Jorge Semprun Cinema V
1970 Special Edgars John Dickson Carr Comment: in honor of his 40 years as a mystery writer
1970 Book Jacket Award Classic Crime Collection Avon Comment: softcover
1970 Book Jacket Award The Spanish Prisoner E.P. Dutton Comment: hardcover
1970 The Grand Master James M. Cain 1969 Best Novel A Case of Need Jeffery Hudson World
1969 Best First Novel The Bait Dorothy Uhnak Simon & Schuster 1969 Best First Novel Tie: Silver Street E. Richard Johnson Harper & Row
1969 Best Short Story "The Man Who Fooled the World" Warner Law Saturday Evening Post Volume: August 24, 1968
1969 Best Fact Crime Poe the Detective John Evangelist Walsh Rutgers University Press
1969 Best Juvenile The House of Dies Drear Virginia Hamilton Macmillan
1969 Best Episode in a TV Series "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekll and Mr. Hyde" Ian Hunter ABC Series: ABC Special
1969 Best Motion Picture Bullitt Robert L. Fish, Harry Kleiner, Alan R. Trustman Warner Bros. Comment: author, screenwriter, screenwriter
1969 Special Edgars Ellery Queen Comment: on the 40th anniversary of The Roman Hat Mystery
1969 Special Edgars Philip Wittenberg Comment: for voluntary service to MWA as general counsel
1969 Book Jacket Award God Speed the Night Scribners Comment: hardcover
1969 Book Jacket Award Nothing Is the Number When You Die Ballantine Comment: softcover
1969 Book Jacket Award The Dresden Green Ballantine Comment: softcover
1969 The Grand Master John Creasey 1968 Best Novel God Save the Mark Donald E. Westlake Random House
1968 Best First Novel Act of Fear Michael Collins Dodd, Mead
1968 Best Short Story "The Oblong Room" Edward D. Hoch The Saint Volume: July '67
1968 Best Fact Crime A Private Disgrace Vicotria Lincoln Putnam
1968 Best Juvenile Signpost to Terror Gretchen Sprague Dodd, Mead
1968 Best Episode in a TV Series "Tempest in a Texas Town" Harold Gast, Leon Tokatyan ABC Series: Judd for Defense/ABC,
1968 Best Motion Picture In The Heat of the Night Stirling Silliphant United Artists
1968 The Raven Award Joey Adams Comment: Reader of the Year
1968 Book Jacket Award Johnny Underground Ballantine Comment: softcover
1968 Book Jacket Award Malice Matrimonial Ballantine Comment: softcover
1968 Book Jacket Award Perturbing Spirit Doubleday Comment: hardcover
1967 Best Novel The King of the Rainy Country Nicolas Freeling Harper & Row
1967 Best First Novel The Cold War Swap Ross Thomas Morrow
1967 Best Short Story "The Chosen One" Rhys Davies The New Yorker Volume: June 4, 1966
1967 Best Fact Crime The Boston Strangler Gerold Frank New American Library
1967 Best Juvenile Sinbad and Me Kin Platt Chilton 1967 Best Episode in a TV Series "Operation Rogesh" Jerome Ross CBS-TV Series: Mission : Impossible
1967 Best Motion Picture Harper William Goldman Warner Bros.
1967 Outstanding Mystery Criticism John T. Winterich Saturday Review
1967 Special Edgars Julius Fast Comment: as first winner of the Edgar 22 years ago
1967 Special Edgars Clayton Rawson Comment: for decades of service to the MWA
1967 The Raven Award Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Comment: on its 26th anniversary and as the best showcase for mystery stories
1967 The Raven Award Richard Watts Jr. Comment: Reader of the Year
1967 Book Jacket Award Crowell-Collier Comment: softcover
1967 Book Jacket Award Let Sleeping Girls Lie Wm. Morrow Comment: hardcover
1967 Book Jacket Award Some of Your Blood Ballantine Comment: softcover
1967 The Grand Master Baynard Kendrick
1966 Best Novel The Quiller Memorandum Adam Hall Simon & Schuster
1966 Best First Novel In The Heat of the Night John Ball Harper & Row
1966 Best Short Story "The Possibility of Evil" Shirley Jackson Saturday Evening Post Volume: December 18, 1965
1966 Best Fact Crime In Cold Blood Truman Capote Random House
1966 Best Juvenile The Mystery of 22 East Leon Ware Westminster Press
1966 Best Episode in a TV Series "An Unlocked Window" James Bridges NBC-TV Series: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1966 Best Motion Picture The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Paul Dehn, Guy Trosper Paramount
1966 Best Foreign film The Ipcress File Bill Canaway, James Doran Universal
1966 Special Edgars "The Gospel According to 007" Reverend O.C. Edwards The Living Church
1966 Book Jacket Award Random House Comment: hardcover 1966 Book Jacket Award Girl on the Run Doubleday Comment: hardcover
1966 Book Jacket Award Knock and Wait a While Bantam Comment: softcover
1966 The Grand Master Georges Simenon 1965 Best Novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John le Carre Coward-McCann
1965 Best First Novel Friday the Rabbi Slept Late Harry Kemelman Crown
1965 Best Short Story "H as in Homicide" Lawrence Treat Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: March '64
1965 Best Fact Crime Gideon's Trumpet Anthony Lewis Random House
1965 Best Juvenile Mystery at Crane's Landing Marcella Thum Dodd, Mead
1965 Best Episode in a TV Series "The Fugitvie series" Alan Armer ABC Series: The Fugitive
1965 Best Motion Picture Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte Henry Farrell, Lukas Heller Twentieth Century Fox
1965 Best Foreign film Seance on a Wet Afternoon Bryan Forbes Artixo Productions Ltd.
1965 The Raven Award Dr. Milton Helpern Comment: for his work in forensic medicine
1965 The Raven Award Philip Wittenberg Comment: for his long years of voluntary service
1965 Book Jacket Award Doubleday Comment: hardcover
1965 Book Jacket Award Walker & Company Comment: hardcover
1965 Book Jacket Award Bantam Comment: softcover
1965 Book Jacket Award Dell Comment: softcover
1965 Book Jacket Award Popular Library Comment: softcover
1965 Book Jacket Award Inner Sanctum Mysteries Simon & Schuster Comment: hardcover
1964 Best Novel The Light of Day Eric Ambler Knopf 1964 Best First Novel Florentine Finish Cornelius Hirschberg Harper & Row
1964 Best Short Story "Man Gehorcht" Leslie Ann Brownrigg Story Magazine Volume: January-February '63
1964 Best Fact Crime The Deed Gerold Frank Simon & Schuster 1964 Best Juvenile Mystery of the Hidden Hand Phyllis A. Whitney Westminster Press
1964 Best Episode in a TV Series "The End of the World Baby" Luther Davis NBC-TV Series: Kraft Suspense Hour
1964 Best Motion Picture Charade Peter Stone Universal
1964 Best Foreign film Any Number Can Play Michael Audiard, Albert Simonin, Henri Verneuil MGM
1964 Outstanding Mystery Criticism Hans Stefan Santesson The Saint Mystery Magazine
1964 Special Edgars Down These Mean Streets Philip Durham University of North Carolina Press
1964 Book Jacket Award Harper & Row Comment: hardcover
1964 Book Jacket Award Simon & Schuster Comment: hardcover
1964 Book Jacket Award Berkley Comment: softcover
Series: Medallion Books 1964 Book Jacket Award Popular Library Comment: softcover
1964 The Grand Master George Harmon Coxe 1963 Best Novel Death and the Joyful Woman Ellis Peters Doubleday
1963 Best First Novel The Fugitive Robert L. Fish Simon & Schuster
1963 Best Short Story "The Sailing Club" David Ely Cosmopolitan Volume: October '62
1963 Best Fact Crime Tragedy in Dedham Francis Russell McGraw-Hill
1963 Best Juvenile Cutlass Island Scott Corbett Little, Brown 1963 Best Episode in a TV Series "The Problem of Cell 13" A.A. Roberts NBC-TV Series: Kraft Mystery Theatre
1963 Special Edgars Companion to Murder E. Spencer Shew Knopf Comment: two volume reference work
1963 Special Edgars Cops and Robbers Philip Reisman NBC
1963 Special Edgars The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow Patrick Quentin Random House Comment: collection of short stories
1963 Book Jacket Award Doubleday Comment: hardcover
1963 Book Jacket Award Collier Comment: softcover
1963 The Grand Master John Dickson Carr
1962 Best Novel Gideon's Fire J.J. Marric Harper
1962 Best First Novel The Green Stone Suzanne Blanc Harper
1962 Best Short Story "Affair at Lahore Cantonment" Avram Davidson Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Volume: June '61 1962 Best Fact Crime Death and the Supreme Court Barrett Prettyman Jr. Harcourt, Brace & World
1962 Best Juvenile The Phantom of Walkaway Hill Edward Fenton Doubleday
1962 Best Episode in a TV Series "Witness in the Dark" John Lemont, Leigh Vance NBC-TV Series: Kraft Mystery Theater,
1962 Best Motion Picture The Innocents William Archibald, Truman Capote Twentieth Century Fox
1962 Best Foreign film Purple Noon Rene Clement, Paul Degauff Paris/Panitalia/Titamus
1962 Best Play Write Me a Murder Frederick Knott
1962 Special Edgars The Annals of Murder Thomas M. McDade University of Oklahoma Press
1962 The Raven Award The Defenders Comment: a TV show in its first year
1962 Book Jacket Award Walker & Company Comment: hardcover
1962 Book Jacket Award Doubleday Comment: hardcover
1962 Book Jacket Award Harper Bros. Comment: hardcover
1962 The Grand Master Erle Stanley Gardner
1961 Best Novel The Progress of a Crime Julian Symons Harper
1961 Best First Novel The Man in the Cage John Holbrooke Vance Random House
1961 Best Short Story "Tiger" John Durham Cosmopolitan Volume: February '60
1961 Best Fact Crime The Overbury Affair Miriam Allen deFord Chilton
1961 Best Juvenile The Mystery of the Haunted Pool Phyllis A. Whitney Westminster Press
1961 Best Episode in a TV Series "The Case of the Burning Court" Kelley Roos NBC-TV Series: Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
1961 Best Motion Picture Psycho Robert Bloch, Joseph Stefano Paramount Comment: a Scroll to Bloch as the book writer, Stefano is the screenwriter
1961 Outstanding Mystery Criticism James Sandoe New York Herald-Tribune
1961 Special Edgars Charles Addams Comment: cartooinst of the macabre
1961 Special Edgars Elizabeth Daly Comment: grande dame of women mystery writers
1961 Special Edgars Philip Wittenberg Comment: legal counsel
1961 The Raven Award Ilka Chase Comment: Reader of the Year
1961 Book Jacket Award A Mark of Displeasure Scribners Comment: hardcover
1961 Book Jacket Award The Three Coffins Dell Comment: softcover
1961 The Grand Master Ellery Queen Comment: AKA: Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee
1960 Best Novel The Hours Before Dawn Celia Fremlin Lippincott
1960 Best First Novel The Grey Flannel Shroud Henry Slesar Random House
1960 Best Short Story "The Landlady" Roald Dahl The New Yorker Volume: November '59
1960 Best Fact Crime Fire at Sea Thomas Gallager Rhinehart
1960 Best Episode in a TV Series "The Empty Chair" David Karp ABC
1960 Best Motion Picture North by Northwest Ernest Lehman MGM
1960 Best Foreign film Sapphire Janet Green Rank/Artna
1960 Best Radio Drama "Sorry, Wrong Number" Lucille Fletcher CBS Series: Suspense
1960 The Raven Award Ray Brennan Comment: for crime reporting
1960 The Raven Award David C. Cook Comment: for Best Detective Stories of the Year
1960 The Raven Award Alfred Hitchcock Comment: for his contribution to the mystery genre
1960 The Raven Award Gail Jackson Comment: producer of Perry Mason TV series
1960 The Raven Award Phyllis McGinley Comment: Mystery Fan of the Year
1959 Best Novel The Eighth Circle Stanley Ellin Random House
1959 Best First Novel The Bright Road to Fear Richard Martin Stern Ballantine
1959 Best Short Story "Over There, Darkness" William O'Farrell Sleuth Volume: October '58
1959 Best Fact Crime They Died in the Chair Wenzell Brown Popular Library
1959 Best Episode in a TV Series "The Edge of Truth" Adrian Spies CBS-TV Series: Studio One
1959 Best Motion Picture The Defiant Ones Nathan E. Douglas, Harold Jacob Smith United Artists
1959 Best Foreign film Inspector Maigret Georges Simenon Intermondia/J.P. Guibert/Jolly Film
1959 Special Edgars American Murder Ballads Alice Wooley Burt Oxford University Press
1959 The Raven Award Lawrence G. Blochman Comment: for long and distinguished service to MWA and The Third Degree
1959 The Raven Award Frederic G. Melcher Comment: on his retirement after 35 years with Publishers Weekly
1959 The Raven Award Franklin Delano Roosevelt Comment: (posthumous) Reader of the Year, accepted by Eleanor Roosevelt
1959 Book Jacket Award Western Printing & Lithographing Co. Comment: for Dell book jackets
1959 The Grand Master Rex Stout
1958 Best Novel Room to Swing Ed Lacy Harper
1958 Best First Novel Knock and Wait a While William Rawle Weeks Houghton Mifflin
1958 Best Short Story "The Secret of the Bottle" Gerald Kersh Saturday Evening Post Volume: December 7 '57
1958 Best Fact Crime The D.A.'s Man Harold R. Danforth, James D. Horan Crown
1958 Best Episode in a TV Series "Mechanical Manhunt" Harold Swanton NBC-TV Series: Alcoa Hour
1958 Best Motion Picture Twelve Angry Men Reginald Rose Orion/Nova
1958 Best Radio Drama "The Galindez-Murphy Case: A Chronicle of Terror" Jay MacMullen CBS
1958 Book Jacket Award Harper Bros. Comment: for general excellence
1958 Book Jacket Award Dell Comment: for their Great Mystery Series book jackets
1958 The Grand Master Vincent Starrett 1957 Best Novel A Dram of Poison Charlotte Armstrong Coward-McCann
1957 Best First Novel Rebecca's Pride Donald McNutt Douglass Harper
1957 Best Short Story "The Blessington Method" Stanley Ellin Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: June '56
1957 Best Fact Crime Night Fell on Georgia Charles Samuels, Louise Samuels Dell
1957 Best Episode in a TV Series "The Fine Art of Murder" Sidney Carroll ABC Series: Omnibus
1957 Outstanding Mystery Criticism Curtis W. Casewit Denver Post
1957 Special Edgars Compulsion Meyer Levin Simon & Schuster
1957 The Raven Award Miss Dorothy Kilgallen Comment: Reader of the Year
1957 Book Jacket Award Inspector Maigret and the Burglar's Wife Doubleday Comment: hardcover
1956 Best Novel Beast in View Margaret Millar Random House
1956 Best First Novel The Perfectionist Lane Kauffman Lippincott
1956 Best Short Story "Dream No More" Philip MacDonald Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: November '55
1956 Best Fact Crime Dead and Gone Manly Wade Wellman University of North Carolina Press
1956 Best Episode in a TV Series "A Taste of Honey" Alvin Sapinsley Jr. ABC Series: Elgin Hour
1956 Best Motion Picture The Desperate Hours Joseph Hayes Paramount
1956 Best Foreign film Diabolique Henri-Georges Clouzot Filmsonor
1956 Book Jacket Award Scribners 1955 Best Novel The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler Houghton Mifflin
1955 Best First Novel Go, Lovely Rose Jean Potts Scribners
1955 Best Short Story "The House Party" Stanley Ellin Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: May '54
1955 Best Fact Crime The Girl with the Scarlet Brand Charles Boswell, Lewis Thompson Fawcett
1955 Best Episode in a TV Series "Smoke" Gore Vidal CBS-TV Series: Suspense
1955 Best Motion Picture Rear Window John Michael Hayes Paramount
1955 Best Play Witness for the Prosecution Agatha Christie
1955 Best Radio Drama "The Tree" Stanley Niss CBS Series: 21st Precinct
1955 Outstanding Mystery Criticism Drexel Drake Chicago Tribune 1955 Book Jacket Award Berton Roueche Dell Comment: softcover 1955 Book Jacket Award Eleven Blue Men Little, Brown 1955 The Grand Master Agatha Christie 1954 Best Novel Beat Not the Bones Charlotte Jay Harper 1954 Best First Novel A Kiss Before Dying Ira Levin Simon & Schuster 1954 Best Short Story "Someone Like You" Roald Dahl Knopf 1954 Best Fact Crime Why Did They Kill? John Bartlow Martin Ballantine 1954 Best Episode in a TV Series "Crime at Blossoms" Jerome Ross CBS-TV Series: Studio One 1954 Best Motion Picture The Big Heat Sidney Boehm, William P. McGivern Columbia Comment: Boehm is the screenwriter, McGivern is the author of the novel 1954 Best Radio Drama "The Shot" E. Jack Neuman CBS Series: Suspense 1954 Outstanding Mystery Criticism Brett Halliday Westport Town Crier Comment: and other Connecticut papers 1954 Outstanding Mystery Criticism Helen McCloy Westport Town Crier Comment: and other Connecticut papers 1954 Special Edgars The Frightened Wife and Other Murder Stories Mary Roberts Rinehart Rinehart & Co. 1954 The Raven Award Dr. Thomas A. Gonzales Comment: retiring medical examiner, New York City 1954 The Raven Award Tom Lehrer Comment: for his mystery parodies 1954 The Raven Award Dr. Harrison Martland Comment: retiring medical examiner, Essex County, New Jersey 1953 Best First Novel Don't Cry for Me William Campbell Gault Dutton 1953 Best Short Story "Something to Hide" Philip MacDonald Doubleday 1953 Best Fact Crime Court of Last Resort Erle Stanley Gardner Wm. Sloane Association 1953 Best Episode in a TV Series "Dragnet" Jack Webb NBC-TV Comment: and Michael Meshekoff, Producer 1953 Best Motion Picture Five Fingers Otto Lang, Michael G. Wilson Twentieth Century Fox Comment: Lang is the producer, 1953 Best Play Dial M for Murder Frederick Knott 1953 Best Radio Drama "The Mysterious Traveler" Robert Arthur, David Kogan Mutual Broadcasting System 1953 Outstanding Mystery Criticism Anthony Boucher New York Times Comment: and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine 1953 The Raven Award E.T. Guymon Jr Comment: for his outstanding library of mystery literature 1952 Best First Novel Strangle Hold Mary McMullen Harper 1952 Best Short Story "Fancies and Goodnights" John Collier Doubleday 1952 Best Fact Crime True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality St. Clair McKelway Random House 1952 Best Episode in a TV Series "The Web" Franklin Heller CBS-TV Comment: and Goodson-Todman, package producers of the show 1952 Best Motion Picture Detective Story Sidney Kingsley, Robert Wyler, Philip Yordan Paramount Comment: Kingsley wrote the stage play on which the screen version was based, Wyler and Yordan were the screenwriters, 1952 Best Radio Drama "Dragnet" James Moser, Jack Webb NBC 1952 Outstanding Mystery Criticism Lenore Glen Offord San Francisco Chronicle Comment: for best overall mystery reviewing 1952 Special Edgars Queen Quorum: The 125 Most Important Books of Detective-Crime-Mystery Short Stories Frederic Dannay, Manfred B. Lee Biblo and Tannen 1951 Best First Novel Nightmare in Manhattan Thomas Walsh Little, Brown 1951 Best Short Story "Diagnosis: Homicide" Lawrence G. Blochman Lippincott 1951 Best Fact Crime Twelve Against Crime Edward D. Radin Putnam 1951 Best Motion Picture Mr. 880 St. Clair McKelway Twentieth Century Fox Comment: Winner of a special award as the author of the novel 1951 Best Motion Picture The Asphalt Jungle Ben Maddow MGM 1951 Best Radio Drama "Dragnet" James Moser, Jack Webb NBC 1951 Outstanding Mystery Criticism Dorothy B. Hughes Albuquerque Tribune Comment: and Los Angeles Daily News 1951 Special Edgars W.T. Brannon Comment: for general excellence in fact crime writing 1951 Special Edgars The Web Franklin Heller Comment: producer/director of MWA's TV show 1950 Best First Novel What A Body Alan Green Simon & Schuster 1950 Best Fact Crime Bad Company Joseph Henry Jackson Harcourt, Brace & World 1950 Best Motion Picture The Window Mel Dinelli, Cornell Woolrich RKO Comment: Woolrich wrote the novel FIRE ESCAPE, on which the movie was based, 1950 Best Play Detective Story Sidney Kingsley 1950 Best Radio Drama "Murder by Experts" Robert Arthur, David Kogan Mutual Broadcasting System 1950 Outstanding Mystery Criticism Anthony Boucher New York Times Comment: and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine 1950 Special Edgars Ellery Queen Comment: for ten years' service through Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine 1950 Special Edgars The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle John Dickson Carr Harper & Row 1949 Best First Novel The Room Upstairs Mildred Davis Simon & Schuster 1949 Best Motion Picture Call Northside 777 Jerome Cady, Jay Dratler, Henry Hathaway, Leonard Hoffman, Otto Lang, Quentin Reynolds Twentieth Century Fox Comment: Screenwriters: Reynolds, Hoffman, Dratler, Cady. Posthumous award for Cady. Hathaway was director. Lang produced., 1949 Best Foreign film Quai des Orfevres Jenny Lamour Vog Films 1949 Best Radio Drama "Inner Sanctum" John Roeburt CBS Comment: Himan Brown director/producer 1949 Outstanding Mystery Criticism James Sandoe Chicago Sun-Times 1949 Special Edgars Clayton Rawson Comment: for launching Clue magazine 1949 Special Edgars Marie Rodell Duell, Sloan & Pearce Comment: for her editorship of the Regional Murder series 1949 Special Edgars Arthur A. Stoughton Comment: president of the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences and custodian of Poe Cottage in Fordham for 26 yeaars 1949 Special Edgars Peter W. Williams Comment: for creating the Edgar bust 1948 Best First Novel The Fabulous Clipjoint Fredric Brown Dutton 1948 Best Fact Crime Twelve Against the Law Edward D. Radin Duell, Sloan & Pearce 1948 Best Motion Picture Crossfire John Paxton RKO Comment: based on the novel The Brick Fox-Hole by Richard Brooks/Dore Schary, producer/Adrian Scott, associate producer/Edward Dmytryk, director 1948 Best Radio Drama "Suspense" William Spier CBS 1948 Outstanding Mystery Criticism Howard Haycraft Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Comment: and author of THE ART OF THE MYSTERY STORY 1947 Best First Novel The Horizontal Man Helen Eustis Harper 1947 Best Motion Picture The Killers Anthony Veiller Hellinger-Universal Comment: Mark Hellinger, producer; Robert Siodmak, director 1947 Best Radio Drama "The Adventures of Sam Spade" Jason James, Bob Tallman CBS Comment: William Spier producer, 1947 Outstanding Mystery Criticism William C. Weber Saturday Review of Literature Comment: alias "Judge Lynch" 1946 Best First Novel Watchful at Night Julius Fast Rinehart & Co. Best Motion Picture Murder, My Sweet John Paxton RKO Comment: screenplay: Raymond Chandler/author of Farewell, My Lovely on which the movie was based 1946 Best Motion Picture The House on 92nd St. Charles G. Booth, Barre Lyndon, John Monks, Jr. Twentieth Century Fox Comment: Honorary Scroll, 1946 Best Radio Drama "Ellery Queen" Frederic Dannay, Manfred B. Lee CBS Comment: A tie this year with MR. AND MRS. NORTH, Dannay and Lee were the team using the pseudonym "Ellery Queen" 1946 Best Radio Drama "Mr. and Mrs. North" Frances Lockridge, Richard Lockridge NBC Comment: A tie this year with ELLERY QUEEN, 1946 Outstanding Mystery Criticism Anthony Boucher
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