Agatha Award / Best Short Story
Best Short Story (English Best Short Story ) is one of the six regular categories in which the American literary award Agatha Award from the Malice Domestic Ltd. is awarded. The prize in this category has been awarded annually since 1989; it honors the best short story published last year by an author from the mystery genre, which is based on the works of the well-known British crime writer Agatha Christie (1890–1976). The short story must have been published in an anthology for the first time in the previous year . The most successful in this category are Dana Cameron (2009, 2012 and 2013) and Art Taylor (2014, 2015 and 2017), who each won the award three times.
Here is the list of the winners of the Agatha Award in the Best Short Story category :
| year | Award winners | Short story title | Anthology (publisher) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Robert Barnard | More Final Than Divorce | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine |
| 1990 | Sharyn McCrumb | A Wee Yet and Doris | Mistletoe Mysteries (Mysterious Press) |
| 1991 | Joan Hess | Too much to bare | Sisters in Crime 2 (Berkley Publishing Group) |
| 1992 | Margaret Marron | Deborah's Judgment | A Woman's Eye (Delacourte Press) |
| 1993 |
Aaron Elkins Charlotte Elkins |
Nice gorilla | Malice Domestic 1 (Pocket Books) |
| 1994 | MD Lake | Kim's Game | Malice Domestic 2 (Pocket Books) |
| 1995 | Dorothy Cannell | The Family Jewels | Malice Domestic 3 (Pocket Books) |
| 1996 | Elizabeth Daniels Squire | The Dog Who Remembered Too Much | Malice Domestic 4 (Pocket Books) |
| 1997 | Carolyn Wheat | Accidents Will Happen | Malice Domestic 5 (Pocket Books) |
| 1998 | MD Lake | Tea for Two | Funnybones (Penguin Books) |
| 1999 | Barbara D'Amato | Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is a Vegetable | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 1998 |
| 2000 | Nancy Pickard | Out of Africa | Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder (Berkley Publishing Group) |
| 2001 | Jan Burke | The Man in the Civil Suit | Malice Domestic 9 (Avon Books) |
| 2002 | Katherine Hall Page | The Would-Be-Widower | Malice Domestic X (Avon Books) |
| 2003 | Margaret Marron | The Dog That Didn't Bark | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 2002 |
| Marcia Talley | Too many cooks | Much Ado About Murder (Berkley Prime Crime) | |
| 2004 | Elizabeth Foxwell | No Man's Land | Blood on Their Hands (Berkley Prime Crime) |
| 2005 | Elaine Viets | Wedding Knife | Chesapeake Crimes (Quiet Storm Publishing) |
| 2006 | Marcia Talley-Chesapeake | Driven to distraction | Crimes II (Quiet Storm Publishing) |
| 2007 | Toni LP Kelner | Sleeping with the plush | Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, May 2006 |
| 2008 | Donna Andrews | A Rat's Tale | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sept./Oct. 2007 |
| 2009 | Dana Camaron | The Night Things Changed | Wolfsbane & Mistletoe (Ed .: Charlaine Harris) |
| 2010 | Hank Phillippi Ryan | On the house | Quarry (Ed .: Kate Flora et al .; Level Best Books) |
| 2011 | Mary Jane Maffini | Su Much in Common | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sept./Oct. 2010 |
| 2012 | Dana Cameron | Disarming | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 2011 |
| 2013 | Dana Cameron | Mischief in Mesopotamia | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 2012 |
| 2014 | Art Taylor | The Care and Feeding the House Plants | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March / April 2013 |
| 2015 | Art Taylor | The Odds Are Against Us | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 2014 |
| 2016 | Barb Goffman | A Year Without Santa Claus? | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Jan./Feb. 2015 |
| 2017 | Art Taylor | Parallel play | Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning |
| 2018 | Gigi Pandian | The Library Ghost of Tanglewood Inn | Henery Press |
| 2019 | Leslie Budewitz | All God's Sparrows | Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine |
| Tara Laskowski | The Case of the Vanishing Professor | Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine |
Web links
- Website Malice Domestic (English)