Edgar Award

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The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by
the Mystery Writers of America,[1] based in New York City.[2] They honor the best in mystery fiction, non-
fiction, television, film, and theater published or produced in the previous year.

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1Categories

2Best Novel award winners

o 2.11950s

o 2.21960s

o 2.31970s

o 2.41980s

o 2.51990s

o 2.62000s

o 2.72010s

31972 winners

42010 winners

52012 winners

62013 winners

72014 winners

82015 winners

92016 winners

10See also

11References

12External links

Categories[edit]

Best novel (since 1954)

 Best first novel by an American author (since 1946)

Best paperback original (since 1970)

Best short story (since 1951)

Best fact crime (since 1948)

Best critical/biographical work (since 1977)

Best young adult (since 1989)

Best juvenile (since 1961)

Best episode in a TV series (since 1952)

Best TV feature or miniseries (since 1972)

Best motion picture screenplay (since 1946)

Best play (since 1950, irregular)

Special Edgars (since 1949, irregular)

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for first mystery short story (since 1984)

Raven Award (since 1953)

Grand Master Award (since 1955)

Ellery Queen Award (since 1983)

Mary Higgins Clark Award (since 2001)

Best radio drama (19461960)

Outstanding Mystery Criticism (19461967)

Best foreign film (19491966)

Best book jacket (19551975)

Best Novel award winners[edit]

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Winners and, where known, shortlisted titles for each year:

1950s[edit]
1954 Charlotte Jay, Beat Not the Bones
1955 Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
1956 Margaret Millar, Beast in View

The Gordons, The Case of the Talking Bug

Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley

1957 Charlotte Armstrong, A Dram of Poison

Charles Samuels, and Louise Samuels Night Fell on Georgia" (award winner for Best Fact Crime)

Margot Bennett, The Man Who Didn't Fly

1958 Ed Lacy, Room to Swing

Arthur Upfield, The Bushman Who Came Back

Bill Ballinger, The Longest Second

Marjorie Carleton, The Night of the Good Children

1959 Stanley Ellin, The Eighth Circle

Dorothy Salisbury Davis, A Gentleman Called

David Alexander, The Madhouse in Washington Square

Lee Blackstock, The Woman in the Woods (aka Miss Fenny as Charity Blackstock)

1960s[edit]
1960 Celia Fremlin, The Hours Before Dawn

Philip MacDonald, The List of Adrian Messenger

1961 Julian Symons, The Progress of a Crime

Peter Curtis, The Devil's Own

Herbert Brean, The Traces of Brillhart

Geoffrey Household, Watcher in the Shadows

1962 J. J. Marric, Gideon's Fire

Lionel Davidson, The Night of Wenceslas

Anne Blaisdell, Nightmare

Suzanne Blanc, The Green Stone

Ross Macdonald, The Wycherly Woman

1963 Ellis Peters, Death and the Joyful Woman

Dell Shannon, Knave of Hearts

Mark McShane, Seance

Shelley Smith, The Ballad of the Running Man

 Jean Potts, The Evil Wish

Ross Macdonald, The Zebra-Striped Hearse

1964 Eric Ambler, The Light of Day

Stanton Forbes, Grieve for the Past

Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man

Elizabeth Fenwick, The Make-Believe Man

Ellery Queen, The Player on the Other Side

1965 John le Carr, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Margaret Millar, The Fiend

Hans Hellmut Kirst, The Night of the Generals

Mary Stewart, This Rough Magic

1966 Adam Hall, The Quiller Memorandum

Mary Stewart, Airs Above the Ground

Len Deighton, Funeral in Berlin

Ross Macdonald, The Far Side of the Dollar

Dorothy Salisbury Davis, The Pale Betrayer

H. R. F. Keating, The Perfect Murder

1967 Nicolas Freeling, King of the Rainy Country

Ngaio Marsh, Killer Dolphin

Dick Francis, Odds Against

Donald E. Westlake, The Busy Body

1968 Donald E. Westlake, God Save the Mark

George Baxt, A Parade of Cockeyed Creatures

Dick Francis, Flying Finish

Charlotte Armstrong, Lemon in the Basket

Ira Levin, Rosemary's Baby

Charlotte Armstrong, The Gift Shop

1969 "Jeffery Hudson" (Michael Crichton), A Case of Need

Peter Dickinson, A Glass-Sided Ants' Nest

Dick Francis, Blood Sport

Dorothy Salisbury Davis and Jerome Ross, God Speed the Night
 Heron Carvic, Picture Miss Seeton

Stanley Ellin, The Valentine Estate

1970s[edit]
1970 Dick Francis, Forfeit

Chester Himes, Blind Man with a Pistol

Shaun Herron, Miro

Peter Dickinson, The Old English Peep Show

Emma Lathen, When in Greece

Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Where the Dark Streets Go

1971 Maj Sjwall & Per Wahl, The Laughing Policeman

Pat Stadley, Autumn of a Hunter

Margaret Millar, Beyond this Point Are Monsters

Patricia Moyes, Many Deadly Returns

Donald E. Westlake, The Hot Rock

Shaun Herron, The Hound and the Fox and the Harper
1972 Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal

P. D. James, Shroud for a Nightingale

G. F. Newman, Sir, You Bastard

Tony Hillerman, The Fly on the Wall

Arthur Wise, Who Killed Enoch Powell?

1973 Warren Kiefer, The Lingala Code

Martin Cruz Smith, Canto for a Gypsy

John Ball, Five Pieces of Jade

Hugh C. Rae, The Shooting Gallery

Ngaio Marsh, Tied Up in Tinsel

1974 Tony Hillerman, Dance Hall of the Dead

Francis Clifford, Amigo, Amigo

P. D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

Jean Stubbs, Dear Laura

Victor Canning, The Rainbird Pattern

1975 Jon Cleary, Peter's Pence
 Francis Clifford, Goodbye and Amen

Andrew Garve, The Lester Affair

Malcolm Bosse, The Man Who Loved Zoos

Paul Erdman, The Silver Bears

1976 Brian Garfield, Hopscotch

Gerald Seymour, Harry's Game

Maggie Rennert, Operation Alcestic

Marvin Albert, The Gargoyle Conspiracy

Ross Thomas, The Money Harvest

1977 Robert B. Parker, Promised Land

Richard Neely, A Madness of the Heart

Thomas Gifford, The Cavanaugh Quest

Gerald Seymour, The Glory Boys

Trevanian, The Main

1978 William Hallahan, Catch Me: Kill Me

William McIlvanney, Laidlaw

Martin Cruz Smith, Nightwing

1979 Ken Follett, Eye of the Needle

Ruth Rendell, A Sleeping Life

Tony Hillerman, Listening Woman

Jack S. Scott, The Shallow Grave

John Godey, The Snake

1980s[edit]
1980 Arthur Maling, The Rheingold Route [3]

C. P. Snow, A Coat of Varnish

Robert Barnard, Death of a Mystery Writer

Frank Parrish, Fire in the Barley

Ruth Rendell, Make Death Love Me

1981 Dick Francis, Whip Hand

B. M. Gill, Death Drop

Robert Barnard, Death of a Literary Widow

 A. J. Quinnell, Man on Fire

Reginald Hill, The Spy's Wife

1982 William Bayer, Peregrine

Patrick McGinley, Bogmail

Robert Barnard, Death in a Cold Climate

Liza Cody, Dupe

Robert Littell, The Amateur

Ted Allbeury, The Other Side of Silence

1983 Rick Boyer, Billingsgate Shoal

Lawrence Block, Eight Million Ways To Die

Donald E. Westlake, Kahawa

Elmore Leonard, Split Images

Seymour Shubin, The Captain

1984 Elmore Leonard, La Brava
1985 Ross Thomas, Briarpatch
1986 L. R. Wright, The Suspect
1987 Barbara Vine, A Dark-Adapted Eye
1988 Aaron Elkins, Old Bones
1989 Stuart M. Kaminsky, A Cold Red Sunrise

1990s[edit]
1990 James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues
1991 Julie Smith, New Orleans Mourning
1992 Lawrence Block, A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
1993 Margaret Maron, Bootlegger's Daughter
1994 Minette Walters, The Sculptress
1995 Mary Willis Walker, The Red Scream
1996 Dick Francis, Come to Grief
1997 Thomas H. Cook, The Chatham School Affair
1998 James Lee Burke, Cimarron Rose
1999 Robert Clark, Mr. White's Confession

2000s[edit]
2000 Jan Burke, Bones
2001 Joe R. Lansdale, The Bottoms
2002 T. Jefferson Parker, Silent Joe
2003 S. J. Rozan, Winter and Night
2004 Ian Rankin, Resurrection Men
2005 T. Jefferson Parker, California Girl
2006 Jess Walter, Citizen Vince
2007 Jason Goodwin, The Janissary Tree
2008 John Hart, Down River
2009 C. J. Box, Blue Heaven

2010s[edit]
2010 John Hart, The Last Child
2011 Steve Hamilton, The Lock Artist
2012 Mo Hayder, Gone
2013 Dennis Lehane, Live by Night
2014 William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace
2015 Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes
2016 Lori Roy, Let Me Die in His Footsteps

1972 winners[edit]

Book Jacket: If You Want to See Your Wife Again by John Craig

2010 winners[edit]

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2010, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, and film published or
produced in 2009, are:

Best Novel: The Last Child by John Hart

Best First Novel by an American Author: In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff

Best Paperback Original: Body Blows by Marc Strange

Best Fact Crime: Columbine by Dave Cullen

Best Critical/Biographical: The Lineup: The Worlds Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their
Greatest Detectives edited by Otto Penzler

Best Short Story: "Amapola" Phoenix Noir by Luis Alberto Urrea

Best Juvenile: Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn

Best Young Adult: Reality Check by Peter Abrahams

Best Television Episode Teleplay: "A Place of Execution" by Patrick Harbinson

The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award was presented to "A Dreadful Day" Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine by Dan
Warthman (Dell Magazines).[4]

2012 winners[edit]

For works published in 2011.

Best Novel: Gone by Mo Hayder

Best First Novel: Bent Road by Lori Roy

Best Paperback Original: The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett

Best Fact Crime: Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a
President by Candice Millard

Best Critical/Biographical: On Conan Doyle; or, The Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda

Best Short Story: "The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train" - Ellery Queen Mystery
Magazine by Peter Turnbull
 Best Juvenile: Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby

Best Young Adult: The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall

Best Television Episode Teleplay: "Pilot" - Homeland, Teleplay by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff

Best Play: The Game's Afoot by Ken Ludwig

Robert L. Fish Memorial: "A Good Man of Business" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by David Ingram

Mary Higgins Clark: Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry

Grand Master: Martha Grimes

Raven: M is for Mystery Bookstore, San Mateo, CA / Molly Weston, Meritorious Mysteries

Ellery Queen Award: Joe Meyers of the Connecticut Post/Hearst Media News Group

2013 winners[edit]

Best Novel: Live by Night by Dennis Lehane[5]

Best First Novel by an American Author: The Expats by Chris Pavone

Best Paperback Original: The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters[5]

Best Fact Crime: Midnight in Peking by Paul French

Best Critical/Biographical: The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics by
James O'Brien

Best Short Story: "The Unremarkable Heart" - Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance by Karin
Slaughter

Best Juvenile: The Quick Fix by Jack D. Ferraiolo

Best Young Adult: Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

Best Television Episode Teleplay: "A Scandal in Belgravia" - Sherlock, teleplay by Steven Moffat

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "When They Are Done With Us" - Staten Island Noir by Patricia Smith

Grand Master: Ken Follett and Margaret Maron

Raven Awards: Oline Cogdill, Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore San Diego and Redondo Beach, CA

Ellery Queen Award: Akashic Books

The Simon & Schuster-Mary Higgins Clark Award: The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan

2014 winners[edit]

Best Novel: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

Best First Novel by an American Author: Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews

 Best Paperback Original: The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood

Best Fact Crime: The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel
Stashower

Best Critical/Biographical: America Is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture by Erik
Dussere

Best Short Story: "The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository" - Bibliomysteries by John Connolly

Best Juvenile: One Came Home by Amy Timberlake

Best Young Adult: Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher

Best Television Episode Teleplay: "Episode 1" - The Fall, teleplay by Allan Cubitt

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "The Wentworth Letter" - Criminal Element's Malfeasance Occasional by Jeff
Soloway

Grand Master: Robert Crais and Carolyn Hart[6]

Raven Awards: Aunt Agathas in Ann Arbor, Michigan[6]

2015 winners[edit]

Best Novel: Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King

Best First Novel: Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman

Best Paperback Original: The Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani

Best Fact Crime: Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann

Best Critical/Biographical: Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe by J.W. Ocker

Best Short Story: "What Do You Do?"- Rogues by Gillian Flynn

Best Juvenile: Greenglass House by Kate Milford

Best Young Adult: The Art of Secrets by James Klise

Best Television Episode Teleplay: "Episode 1" - Happy Valley by Sally Wainwright

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "Getaway Girl" - Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine by Zoe Z. Bell

Mary Higgins Clark Award: The Stranger You Know by Jane Casey

Grand Master: Lois Duncan and James Ellroy

Raven Award: Ruth and Jon Jordan, Crimespree Magazine and Kathryn Kennison, Magna Cum Murder

Ellery Queen Award: Charles Ardai

2016 winners[edit]
 Best Novel: Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy

Best First Novel: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Best Paperback Original: The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney

Best Fact Crime: Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully by Allen Kurzweil

Best Critical/Biographical: The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards

Best Short Story: "Obits" from the collection Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King

Best Juvenile: Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy by Susan Vaught

Best Young Adult: A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis

Best Television Episode Teleplay: "Gently with the Women" - George Gently by Peter Flannery

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "Chung Ling Soo's Greatest Trick" Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine by
Russell W. Johnson

Mary Higgins Clark Award: Little Pretty Things by Lori Rader-Day

Grand Master: Walter Mosley

Raven Award: Margaret Kinsman and Sisters in Crime

Ellery Queen Award: Janet Rudolph

See also[edit]

Edogawa Rampo Prize

References[edit]

1. Jump up^ Neimeyer, Mark. "Poe and Popular Culture", collected in The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan
Poe. Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-521-79727-6. p. 206.

2. Jump up^ "Contact the National Office of Mystery Writers of America". Retrieved 2013-04-21.

3. Jump up^ "Edgar Award Winners and Nominees Database". Theedgars.com. Retrieved 2012-01-30.

4. Jump up^ 2010 Edgar Winners Press Release

5. ^ Jump up to:a b "2013 Nominees". Retrieved July 23, 2013.

6. ^ Jump up to:a b "MWA Announces 2014 Grand Master and Raven Awards". mysterywriters.org. Retrieved January
25, 2014.

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"The Bells" (1849)

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"MS. Found in a Bottle" (1833)

"Berenice" (1835)

"Morella" (1835)

"The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall" (1835)

"Ligeia" (1838)

"A Predicament" (1838)

"The Devil in the Belfry" (1839)

"The Man That Was Used Up" (1839)

"The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839)

"William Wilson" (1839)

"The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion" (1839)

"The Business Man" (1840)

"The Man of the Crowd" (1840)

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841)

"A Descent into the Maelstrm" (1841)

"Never Bet the Devil Your Head" (1841)

"Eleonora" (1841)

"The Oval Portrait" (1842)

"The Masque of the Red Death" (1842)

"The Mystery of Marie Rogt" (1842)

"The Pit and the Pendulum" (1842)

"The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843)

"The Gold-Bug" (1843)

"The Black Cat" (1843)

"The Spectacles" (1844)

"A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" (1844)

"The Premature Burial" (1844)

"The Oblong Box" (1844)

"The Angel of the Odd" (1844)

"Thou Art the Man" (1844)

"The Purloined Letter" (1844)

"Some Words with a Mummy" (1845)

"The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade" (1845)

"The Imp of the Perverse" (1845)

"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" (1845)

"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (1845)

"The Cask of Amontillado" (1846)

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"Morning on the Wissahiccon" (1844)

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Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827)

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