Edgar Allan Poe Award

The Edgar Allan Poe Award ( Edgar for short , also called Mystery Writers of America Award ) is the world's most popular and at the same time most important award for criminal literary works in the USA . It has been awarded by the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) at the Edgar Awards Banquet since 1946 . It is named after Edgar Allan Poe , who is considered the founder of modern crime literature .

Categories / selection process

The Edgar Allan Poe Award is presented annually in several categories. There are currently 13 categories; a prize is not necessarily awarded in every category every year. A separate jury is set up for each category . The General Awards Chair , the chairman of the Edgar selection procedure, which is responsible for the entire coordination, appoints the heads of the individual juries for this purpose. The leaders, in turn, select four other jurors for their jury. Only active MWA members are eligible as jurors. The large number of novels forced the MWA to enlarge the jury in the Best Novel category : there, eight additional judges instead of four have to sort through and select the best works. The jury members of a category stay in close contact throughout the year and constantly communicate about the works they have already read. Each juror creates a so-called top ten list (points are awarded from 10 to 1 point). At the end of the year, this list becomes the basis for a joint TOP Ten list in a first round of voting by the jury . Afterwards, each member has the opportunity to review and correct their own assessment again. The final nominations will then be determined in a second voting round. At the beginning of the new year, the MWA National Board will select the respective winners of a category, who will be honored during the Edgar Awards Banquet .

Current categories

category	Original title	awarded since
Best novel *	Best novel	1954
Best first novel * by an American author	Best First Novel by an American Author	1946
Best novel as an original paperback *	Best paperback original	1970
Best short story *	Best short story	1951
Best critical or biographical book * about works or authors of crime literature	Best Critical or Biographical Work	1977
Best nonfiction book * (about crime and crime prosecution in real life)	Best fact crime	1948
Best book for children and teenagers	Best juvenile	1961
Best book for young adults	Best Young Adult	1989
Best film script	Best motion picture	1946
Best script for a television movie or mini-series	Best TV Feature or MiniSeries	1972
Best script for an episode of a television series	Best Television Episode Teleplay	1952
Best acting	Best play	1950
Special Edgar for other remarkable achievements	Special Edgar	1949

The winners of the categories marked with an asterisk are listed below

Special prices

category	Original title	awarded from - to
Lifetime Achievement Award *	Grand Master Award	since 1955
Raven Award	Raven Award	since 1953
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award *	Robert L. Fish Memorial Award	since 1984
Mary Higgins Clark Award *	Mary Higgins Clark Award	since 2001
Ellery Queen Award *	Ellery Queen Award	since 1983

The winners of the categories marked with an asterisk are listed below

Edgar Awards and special prizes that are no longer given

category	Original title	awarded from - to
Best radio play *	Best radio drama	1946-1960
Best literary review *	Best Outstanding Mystery Criticism	1946-1967
Best foreign film	Best Foreign Film	1949-1966
Book Jacket Award	Book Jacket Award	1955-1975

The winners of the categories marked with an asterisk are listed below

Award winners

Best Novel - Best Novel

year	Prize winner	Original title publisher, location year 1	German title publisher, location year 1
1954	Charlotte Jay	Beat not the Bones Harper Bros., New York 1952	Except for the bones Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1986
1955	Raymond Chandler	The Long Goodbye Hamish Hamilton, London 1953	The long farewell nest, Nuremberg 1954
1956	Margaret Millar	Beast in View Random House, New York 1955	Dear mother, I'm fine ... Diogenes, Zurich 1967
1957	Charlotte Armstrong	A Dram of Poison Coward-McCann, New York 1956	A sip of poison from Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1962
1958	Ed Lacy	Room to Swing Harper Bros., New York 1957	No scope for construction, Berlin 1969
1959	Stanley Ellin	The Eighth Circle Random House, New York 1958	In the eighth circle of Hell Desch, Munich 1961
1960	Celia Fremlin	The Hours Before Dawn Gollancz, London 1958	The hours before dawn Diogenes, Zurich 1987
1961	Julian Symons	Progress of a Crime Collins Crime Club, London 1960	In the end it was all in vain Goldmann, Munich 1962
1962	JJ Marric (aka John Creasey)	Gideon's Fire Harper Bros., New York 1961	The first fire white, Munich 1965
1963	Ellis Peters	Death and the Joyful Woman Collins, London 1961	Death and the laughing virgin Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1965
1964	Eric Ambler	The Light of Day Heinemann, London 1962	In the first morning light Lichtenberg, Munich 1965
1965	John le Carré	The Spy who Came in from the Cold Gollancz, London 1963	The spy who came out of the cold Zsolnay, Vienna 1964
1966	Adam Hall (aka Elleston Trevor)	The Berlin Memorandum Simon & Schuster, New York 1965	The Berlin Memorandum Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1989
1967	Nicolas Freeling	King of the Rainy Country Harper & Row, New York 1965	Bloodhound Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1967
1968	Donald E. Westlake	God Save the Mark Random House, New York 1967	Money makes you happy Desch, Munich 1968
1969	Michael Crichton as Jeffrey Hudson	A Case of Need World Publishing, New York 1968	The intrigue Scherz, Bern u. a. 1970
1970	Dick Francis	Forfeit Michael Joseph, London 1968	Every bet on Mord Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1970
1971	Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö	The Laughing Policeman Pantheon Books, New York 1970	End of the line for nine Rowohlt, Reinbek 1971
1972	Frederick Forsyth	The Day of the Jackal Hutchinson, London 1971	The jackal Piper, Munich 1972
1973	Warren Kiefer	The Lingala Code Random House, New York 1972	The Lingala Code Heyne, Munich 1973
1974	Tony Hillerman	Dance Hall of the Dead Harper & Row, New York 1973	Shots from the Stone Age Rowohlt, Reinbek 1976
1975	Jon Cleary	Peter's Pence Collins, London 1974
1976	Brian Garfield	Hopscotch M. Evans, New York 1975	Suicide by someone else's hand Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1976
1977	Robert B. Parker	Promised Land Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1976	Easy prey for professionals Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1977
1978	William Hallahan	Catch Me: Kill Me Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis 1977	A case for diplomats Goldmann, Munich 1979
1979	Ken Follett	The Eye of the Needle Futura, London 1978	Die Nadel Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1979
1980	Arthur Maling	The Rheingold Route Harper & Row, New York 1979	The Rheingold Route Goldmann, Munich 1982
1981	Dick Francis	Whip Hand Michael Joseph, London 1979	Handicap Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1980
1982	William Bayer	Peregrine Congdon & Lattes, New York 1981	The killer falcon Zsolnay, Vienna 1982
1983	Rick Boyer	Billingsgate Shoal Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1982	Shoal Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1984
1984	Elmore Leonard	La Brava Arbor House, New York 1983	LaBrava Heyne, Munich 1986
1985	Ross Thomas	Briarpatch Simon & Schuster, New York 1984	Ullstein protective wall , Frankfurt / M. 1986
1986	LR Wright	The Suspect Doubleday Canada, Toronto 1985	Tiefer Grund Rowohlt, Reinbek 1987
1987	Barbara Vine	A Dark Adapted Eye Viking, London 1986	You can see those in the dark Diogenes, Zurich 1989
1988	Aaron Elkins	Old Bones Mysterious Press, New York 1987	Old bones Haffmans, Zurich 1992
1989	Stuart M. Kaminsky	A Cold Red Sunrise Scribner's, New York 1988	Kalte Sonne Goldmann, Munich 1990
1990	James Lee Burke	Black Cherry Blues Little, Brown & Co., Boston 1989	Black Cherry Blues Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1992
1991	Julie Smith	New Orleans Mourning St. Martin's Press, New York 1990	Blues in New Orleans Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 1992
1992	Lawrence Block	A Dance at the Slaughterhouse William Morrow, New York 1991	Dance in the Haffmans slaughterhouse near Heyne, Munich 1993
1993	Margaret Marron	Bootlegger's Daughter Mysterious Press, New York 1992	The Shadows of the South Econ, Düsseldorf 1994
1994	Minette Walters	The Sculptress Macmillan, London 1993	The sculptor Goldmann, Munich 1995
1995	Mary Willis Walker	The Red Scream Doubleday, New York 1994	The red scream Goldmann, Munich 1996
1996	Dick Francis	Come to Grief Michael Joseph, London 1995	Favorite Diogenes, Zurich 1997
1997	Thomas H. Cook	The Chatham School Affair Bantam Books, New York 1996	Whoever sees the dark Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1999
1998	James Lee Burke	Cimarron Rose Hyperion, New York 1997	Dunkler Strom Goldmann, Munich 1999
1999	Robert Clark	Mr. White's Confession Picador, New York 1998	The crime of Mr. White btb, Munich 2001
2000	Jan Burke	Bones Simon & Schuster, New York 1999	Grave silence Goldmann, Munich 2000
2001	Joe R. Lansdale	The Bottoms Mysterious Press, New York 2000	The forests on the DuMont river , Cologne 2005
2002	T. Jefferson Parker	Silent Joe Hyperion, New York 2001	The silent man Ullstein, Munich 2002
2003	SJ Rozan	Winter and Night St. Martin's Minotaur, New York 2002
2004	Ian Rankin	Resurrection Men Orion, London 2001	The gates of darkness Manhattan, Munich 2003
2005	T. Jefferson Parker	California Girl William Morrow, New York 2004
2006	Jess Walter	Citizen Vince Regan Books, New York 2005	The Heyne Agenda , Munich 2006
2007	Jason Goodwin	The Janissary Tree Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2006	The wisdom of the eunuch Piper, Munich 2006
2008	John Hart	Down River St. Martin's Minotaur, New York 2007	The dark river C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2009
2009	CJ box	Blue Heaven St. Martin's Minotaur, New York 2008	Mute witness Heyne, Munich 2007
2010	John Hart	The Last Child St. Martin's Minotaur, New York 2009	The last child C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2010
2011	Steve Hamilton	The Lock Artist St. Martin's Minotaur, New York 2009	The man from the Safe Droemer, Munich 2012
2012	Mo Hayder	Gone Atlantic Monthly Press, New York 2010	Verderbnis Goldmann, Munich 2012
2013	Dennis Lehane	Live by night	In the night of Diogenes, Zurich 2013
2014	William Kent Krueger	Ordinary Grace Atria Books, New York 2013	For a short time we were happy Piper, Munich 2019
2015	Stephen King	Mr. Mercedes Scribner, New York 2014	Mr. Mercedes Heyne, Munich 2014
2016	Lori Roy	Let Me Die in His Footsteps Dutton, New York 2016
2017	Noah Hawley	Before the Fall Grand Central Publishing, New York 2016	Before the Goldmann case , Munich 2016
2018	Attica Locke	Bluebird, Bluebird Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown & Co./Mulholland Books, 2017	Bluebird, Bluebird Polar, Stuttgart 2019
2019	Walter Mosley	Down the River Unto the Sea Mulholland Books, New York 2018

1 = Publisher and publication dates refer to the original or German first editions

Best First Novel by an American Author

year	Prize winner	Original title publisher, location year 1	German title publisher, location year 1
1946	Julius Fast	Watchful at Night Rinehart & Co., New York 1945
1947	Helen Eustis	The Horizontal Man Harper Bros., New York 1946	The night of bad dreams Goldmann, Munich 1971
1948	Fredric Brown	The Fabulous Clipjoint E.P. Dutton, New York 1947	Hunter's first hunt at Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1987
1949	Mildred Davis	The Room Upstairs Simon & Schuster, New York 1948	Corpse from a good Scherz family , Bern a. a. 1968
1950	Alan Green	What a Body Simon & Schuster, New York 1949	Lived healthy is half dead Scherz, Bern u. a. 1967
1951	Thomas Walsh	Nightmare in Manhattan Little, Brown & Co., Boston 1950	Kidnapper in Manhattan Goldmann, Munich 1953
1952	Mary McMullen	Strangle Hold Harper Bros., 1951
1953	William Campbell Gault	Don't Cry for Me E.P. Dutton, New York 1952
1954	Ira Levin	A Kiss Before Dying Simon & Schuster, New York 1953	Kiss before death A. Müller, Rüschlikon / Zurich 1957
1955	Jean Potts	Go, Lovely Rose Scribner's, New York 1954
1956	Lane Kauffman	The Perfectionist Lippincott, 1955
1957	Donald McNutt Douglass	Rebecca's Pride Harper Bros., New York 1956	Yankee go home! Rowohlt, Reinbek 1974
1958	William Rawle Weeks	Knock and Wait a While Houghton-Mifflin, Boston 1957
1959	Richard Martin Stern	The Bright Road to Fear Ballantine, New York 1958	No way back Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1961
1960	Henry Slesar	The Gray Flannel Shroud Random House, New York 1959	Those who do not advertise die Goldmann, Munich 1961
1961	John Holbrooke Vance (Jack Vance)	The Man in the Cage Random House, New York 1960	The man in the cage Goldmann, Munich 1963
1962	Suzanne Blanc	The Green Stone Harper Bros., New York 1961	The green gem Rowohlt, Reinbek 1964
1963	Robert L. Fish	The Fugitive Simon & Schuster, New York 1962
1964	Cornelius Hirschberg	Florentine Finish Harper & Row, New York 1963	Not flawless Goldmann, Munich 1965
1965	Harry Kemelman	Friday the Rabbi Slept Late Crown, New York 1964	On Friday the rabbi slept for a long time Rowohlt, Reinbek 1966
1966	John Ball	In the Heat of the Night Harper & Row, New York 1965	Hot moon Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1966
1967	Ross Thomas	The Cold War Swep William Morrow, New York 1966	The one-way man Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1970
1968	Michael Collins (aka Dennis Lynds)	Act of Fear Dodd, Mead & Co., New York 1967	Last resort Mord Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1970
1969	E. Richard Johnson	Silver Street Harper & Row, New York 1968	Death on Silver Street Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1967
	Dorothy Uhnak	The Bait Simon & Schuster, New York 1968	Girl murder with advance notice Scherz, Bern u. a. 1971
1970	Joe Gores	A Time for Predators Random House, New York 1969	The corpse maker Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1970
1971	Lawrence Sanders	The Anderson Tapes Putnam, New York 1970	11 p.m., York Avenue Molden, Vienna a. a. 1971
1972	AHZ Carr	Finding Maubee Putnam, New York 1971	His friend the murderer Heyne, Munich 1972
1973	RH Shimer	Squaw Point Harper & Row, New York 1972	The ship of the pirate Heyne, Munich 1974
1974	Paul E. Erdman	The Billion Dollar Sure Thing Scribner's, New York 1973	The billion dollar cut Piper, Munich 1974
1975	Gregory Mcdonald	Fletch Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis 1974	Victim seeks suitable murderer Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1977
1976	Rex Burns	The Alvarez Journal Harper & Row, New York 1975	The Alvarez clan Rowohlt, Reinbek 1979
1977	James Patterson	The Thomas Berryman Number Little, Brown & Co., Boston 1976	The order from Rowohlt, Reinbek 1979
1978	Robert Ross	A French Finish Putnam, New York 1977
1979	William L. DeAndrea	Killed in the Ratings Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, New York 1978	Switched off Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1982
1980	Richard North Patterson	The Lasko Tangent W. W. Norton , New York 1979	The Seal of Silence Goldmann, Munich 1995
1981	K. Nolte Smith	The Watcher Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, New York 1980
1982	Stuart Woods	Chiefs W.W. Norton, New York 1981	The successors Goldmann, Munich 1984
1983	Thomas Perry	The Butcher's Boy Scribner's, New York 1982	Settlement in Las Vegas Goldmann, Munich 1984
1984	Will Harriss	The Bay Palm Book Murder Walker & Co., New York 1983
1985	RD roses	Strike Three, You're Dead Walker & Co., New York 1984
1986	Jonathan Kellerman	When the Bough Breaks Atheneum, New York 1985	Blackout: novel of a mysterious crime Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1987
1987	Larry Beinhart	No One Rides for Free William Morrow, New York 1986	No trip for Cassella Rowohlt, Reinbek 1989
1988	Deidre S. Laiken	Death Among Strangers Macmillan, New York 1987
1989	David Stout	Carolina Skeletons Mysterious Press, New York 1988
1990	Susan Wolfe	The Last Billable Hour St. Martin's Press, New York 1989	The last fee Piper, Munich 1993
1991	Patricia Daniels Cornwell	Post Mortem Scribner's, New York 1990	A case for Kay Scarpetta Knaur, Munich 1992
1992	Peter Blauner	Slow Motion Riot William Morrow, New York 1991	King Scherz, Bern a. a. 1993
1993	Michael Connelly	The Black Echo Little, Brown & Co., Boston 1990	The Black Echo Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1994
1994	Laurie R. King	A Grave Talent St. Martin's Press, New York 1993	The color of death Rowohlt, Reinbek 1997
1995	George Dawes Green	The Caveman's Valentine Warner Books, Clayton 1994	The jury Droemer Knaur, Munich 1995
1996	David Housewright	Penance Foul Play Press, New York 1995
1997	John Morgan Wilson	Simple Justice Bantam Books, New York 1996	The Just Argument, Hamburg 1998
1998	Joseph Canon	Los Alamos Broadway Books, New York 1997	The days before Los Alamos Blessing, Munich 1997
1999	Steve Hamilton	A Cold Day in Paradise St, Martin's Press, New York 1998	A cold day in paradise DuMont, Cologne 2001
2000	Eliot Pattison	The Skull Mantra St. Martin's Press, New York 1999	The foreign Tibetan Rütten and Loening, Berlin 2000
2001	David Liss	Conspiracy of Paper Random House, New York 2000	The Goldmann Paper Conspiracy, Munich 2001
2002	David Ellis	Line of Vision Putnam, New York 2001
2003	Jonathon King	The Blue Edge of Midnight E.P. Dutton, New York 2002	The knife in the Swamp Knaur, Munich 2004
2004	Rebecca Pawel	Death of a Nationalist Soho Press, New York 2003
2005	Don Lee	Country of Origin W.W. Norton, New York 2004	When night falls in Tokyo Goldmann, Munich 2005
2006	Theresa Schwegel	Officer Down St. Martin's Minotaur, New York 2005
2007	Alex Berenson	The Faithful Spy Random House, New York 2006	Courier of Death Heyne, Munich 2008
2008	Tana French	In the Woods Viking, New York 2007	Grabesgrün Scherz, Munich 2008
2009	Francie Lin	The Foreigner Picador, New York 2008
2010	Stefanie Pintoff	In the Shadow of Gotham St. Martin's Minotaur, New York 2009
2011	Bruce DeSilva	Rogue Island Forge, New York 2010
2012	Lori Roy	Bent Road Dutton, New York 2011
2013	Chris Pavone	The Expats Crown Publishers, 2012	The woman nobody knew Piper, Munich 2012
2014	Jason Matthews	Red Sparrow Scribner, New York 2013	Operation Red Sparrow Goldmann, Munich 2015
2015	Tom Bouman	Dry Bones in the Valley W. W. Norton, New York 2014	On the hunt, detective novel Ars Vivendi, Cadolzburg 2017
2016	Viet Thanh Nguyen	The Sympathizer Grove Atlantic, New York 2015	The sympathizer Blessing, Munich 2017
2017	Flynn Berry	Under the Harrow Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2016
2018	Jordan Harper	She Rides Shotgun Ecco Press, New York 2017	The Revenge of Polly McClusky Ullstein, Berlin 2018
2019	James A. McLaughlin	Bearskin Ecco Press, New York 2017

1 = Publisher and publication dates refer to the original or German first editions

Best novel as an original paperback - Best Paperback Original

year	Prize winner	Original title publisher, location year 1	German title publisher, location year 1
1970	Scott CS Stone	The Dragon's Eye Gold Medal, New York 1969	Dragon eye Goldmann, Munich 1972
1971	Dan J. Marlowe	Flashpoint Gold Medal, New York 1970	Hunted and caught Desch, Munich 1972
1972	Frank McAuliffe	For Murder I Charge More Ballantine, New York 1971
1973	Richard Wormser	The Invader Gold Medal, New York 1972
1974	Will Perry	Death of an Informer Pyramid, New York 1973
1975	Roy Winsor	The Corpse That Walked Fawcett, New York 1974	Revenge is not always sweet Heyne, Munich 1977
1976	John R. Feegel	Autopsy Avon Books, New York 1975
1977	Gregory Mcdonald	Confess, Fletch Avon Books, New York 1976	Murderer seeks suitable scapegoat Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1978
1978	Mike Jahn	The Quark Maneuver Ballantine, New York, 1977
1979	Frank Bandy	Deceit and Deadly Lies Charter, New York 1978
1980	William L. Andrea	The Hog Murders Avon Books, New York 1979	Murder webs Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1980
1981	Bill Granger	Public Murders Jove, New York 1980	Femicide in Chicago Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1985
1982	LA Morse	The Old Dick Avon Books, New York 1981	Old brooms sweep well Heyne, Munich 1983
1983	Teri White	Triangle Ace / Charter, New York 1982
1984	Margaret Tracy	Mrs. White Dell, New York 1983
1985	Molly Cochran Warren Murphy	Grandmaster Pinnacle, Crestwood 1984	The Grand Master Goldmann, Munich 1986
1986	Warren Murphy	Pigs Get Fat New American Library, New York 1985
1987	Robert W. Campbell	The Junkyard Dog New American Library, New York 1986	Chain dog Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1988
1988	Sharyn McCrumb	Bimbos of the Death Sun TSR 1987
1989	Timothy Findley	The Telling of Lies Dell, New York 1988	A dead man lies on the Ullstein beach , Berlin 1997
1990	Keith Peterson (aka Andrew Klavan)	The Rain Bantam, New York 1989
1991	David Handler (aka Russell Andrews)	The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald Bantam, New York 1990
1992	Thomas Adcock	Dark Maze Pocket Books, New York 1991	Fire and Sulfur Haffmans, Zurich 1994
1993	Dana Stabenow	A Cold Day for Murder Berkley, New York 1992	Kaltes Feuer Scherz, Bern u. a. 1996
1994	Steven Womack	Dead Folk's Blues Ballantine, New York, 1993	Dead blues Droemer Knaur, Munich 1996
1995	Lisa Scottoline	Final Appeal Harper & Row, New York 1994	Roses are red Limes, Munich 1997
1996	William Heffernan	Tarnished Blue Onyx, Memphis 1995
1997	Harlan Coben	Fade Away Dell, New York 1996	The Insider Goldmann, Munich 2007
1998	Laura Lippman	Charm City Avon Books, New York 1997	Charm City Rotbuch, Hamburg 2003
1999	Rick Riordan	The Widower's Two-Step Bantam, New York 1998
2000	Ruth Birmingham	Fulton County Blues Berkley Prime, New York 1999
2001	Mark Graham	The Black Maria Avon Books, New York 2000
2002	Daniel Chavarría	Adios Muchachos Akashic Books, New York 2001	Adiós, you guys! Edition Cologne, Cologne 2006
2003	TJ MacGregor	Out of Sight Pinnacle, Crestwood 2002
2004	Sylvia Maultash Warsh	Find Me Again Dundurn Group, Toronto 2003
2005	Domenic Stansberry	The Confession Hard Case Crime, New York 2004
2006	Jeffrey Ford	Girl in the Glass Dark Alley, New York 2005
2007	Naomi Hirahara	Snakeskin Shamisen Delta Books, New York 2006
2008	Megan Abbott	Queenpin Simon & Schuster, New York 2007
2009	Meg Gardiner	China Lake Obsidian Mystery, New York 2008	Divine service Heyne, Munich 2008
2010	Marc Strange	Body Blows Dundurn Press, Toronto 2009
2011	Robert Goddard	Long Time Coming Bantam Books, New York 2010
2012	Robert Jackson Bennett	The Company Man Orbit, New York 2011
2013	Ben H. Winters	The Last Policeman Quirk Books, Philadelphia 2012	The Last Policeman Heyne Verlag, Munich 2013
2014	Alex Marwood	The Wicked Girls Sphere, London 2012	In the shadow of the lie Heyne, Munich 2012
2015	Chris Abani	The Secret History of Las Vegas Penguin Books, New York 2014
2016	Lou Berney	The Long and Faraway Gone HarperCollins Publishers
2017	Adrian McKinty	Rain Dogs Prometheus Books - Seventh Street Books, New York 2016	Rain Dogs Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017
2018	Anna Mazzola	The Unseeing Sourcebooks - Sourcebooks Landmark, 2017
2019	Alison Gaylin	If I Die Tonight William Morrow, New York 2018

1 = Publisher and publication dates refer to the original or German first editions

Best Short Story - Best Short Story

year	Prize winner	Original title	German title anthology, publisher, location year
1951	Lawrence G. Blochman	Diagnosis: Homicide	The thing with the cat fish In: Bill Pronzini (ed.): Edgar 2 ; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982
1952	John Collier	Fancies and Goodnights
1953	Philip MacDonald	Something to Hide	The clairvoyant - crime stories Rowohlt, Reinbek 1964
1954	Roald Dahl	Someone Like You
1955	Stanley Ellin	The House Party	The weekend party In: Bill Pronzini (ed.): Edgar 1 ; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982
1956	Philip MacDonald	Dream No More	A friend in need In: Bill Pronzini (ed.): Edgar 3 ; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983
1957	Stanley Ellin	The Blessington Method	The Blessington murders In: Bill Pronzini (ed.): Edgar 3 ; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983
1958	Gerald Kersh	The Secret of the Bottle
1959	William O'Farrell	Over there, darkness	Where the Dark Begins In: Bill Pronzini ( Edgar .): Edgar 1 ; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982
1960	Roald Dahl	The Landlady	The landlady In: kisses, kisses! Book guild Gutenberg, Frankfurt / M. u. a. 1976
1961	John Durham	tiger
1962	Avram Davidson	Affair at Lahore Cantonment
1963	David Ely	The Sailing Club	Der Klub In: Bill Pronzini (ed.): Edgar 2 ; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982
1964	Leslie Ann Brownrigg	One obeys
1965	Lawrence Treat	H as in homicide
1966	Shirley Jackson	The Possibility of Evil
1967	Rhys Davies	The Chosen One	The Chosen One In: Bill Pronzini (ed.): Edgar 2 ; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982
1968	Edward D. High	The oblong room	The rectangular room u. a. in: The Most Perfect Murders . Scherz, Bern a. a. 1986
1969	Warner Law	The Man Who Fooled the World	The man who made a fool of the world In: Bill Pronzini (ed.): Edgar 1 ; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982
1970	Joe Gores	Goodbye, Pops	Lebwohl, Dad In: Bill Pronzini (Ed.): Edgar 2 ; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982
1971	Margaret Finn Brown	In the Forrests of Riga the Beasts Are Very Wild Indeed	The wild animals are really wild in the forests of Riga In: Bill Pronzini (Ed.): 25 years thriller anniversary reader ; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1987
1972	Robert L. Fish	Moonlight Gardener	Mondscheingärtner u. a. in: The Most Perfect Murders . Scherz, Bern a. a. 1986
1973	Joyce Harrington	The Purple Shroud	The purple shroud In: Bill Pronzini (ed.): Edgar 1 ; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982
1974	Harlan Ellison	The Whimper of Whipped Dogs	The whining of beaten dogs In: Bill Pronzini (ed.): Edgar 3 ; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983
1975	Ruth Rendell	The Fallen Curtain	The fallen curtain and other stories Ullstein, Hamburg 1982
1976	Jesse Hill Ford	The Jail	A prison for the sheriff In: Bill Pronzini (ed.): Edgar 1 ; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982
1977	Etta Revesz	Like a Terrible Sream	Like a horrible scream In: Bill Pronzini (Ed.): Edgar 3 ; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983
1978	Thomas Walsh	Chance after chance	Die Chance In: Bill Pronzini (ed.): Edgar 2 ; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982
1979	Barbara Owens	The Cloud Beneath the Eaves	The cloud In: Bill Pronzini (ed.): Edgar 3 ; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983
1980	Geoffrey Norman	Armed and Dangerous
1981	Clark Howard	Hornman
1982	Jack Richie	The Absence of Emily
1983	Frederick Forsyth	There Are No Snakes in Ireland	There are no snakes in Ireland Piper, Munich 1982
1984	Ruth Rendell	The New Girlfriend	The new friend In: Bill Pronzini (ed.): 25 years thriller anniversary reading book ; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1987
1985	Lawrence Block	By Dawn's Early Light
1986	John Lutz	Ride the lightening
1987	Robert Sampson	Rain in Pinton County
1988	Harlan Ellison	Soft monkey	The soft monkey In: Ellen Datlow; Terri Windling (ed.): The new book of fantasy ; Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1990
1989	Bill Crenshaw	Flicks
1990	Donald E. Westlake	Too many crooks
1991	Lynne Barrett	Elvis Lives
1992	Wendy Hornsby	Nine Sons
1993	Benjamin M. Protection	Mary, Mary, Shut the Door
1994	Lawrence Block	Keller's Therapy
1995	Doug Allyn	The Dancing Bear
1996	Jean B. Cooper	The Judge's Boy
1997	Michael Malone	Red clay
1998	Lawrence Block	Basement on the spot
1999	Tom Franklin	Poachers
2000	Anne Perry	Heroes
2001	Peter Robinson	Missing in action	Missing. In: Inspector Banks Returns - and Other Crime Stories; Ullstein, Hamburg 2007
2002	SJ Rozan	Double-crossing delancy
2003	Raymond Steiber	Mexican Gatsby
2004	G. Miki Hayden	The Maids
2005	Laurie Lynn Drummond	Something About a Scar
2006	James W. Hall	The catch
2007	Charles Ardai	The Home Front
2008	Susan Straight	The Golden Gopher
2009	T. Jefferson Parker	Skinhead Central
2010	Luis Alberto Urrea	Amapola
2011	Doug Allyn	The Scent of Lilacs
2012	Peter Turnbull	The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train
2013	Karin Slaughter	The Unremarkable Heart - Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance
2014	John Connolly	The Caston Private Lending Library & Book Depository
2015	Gillian Flynn	What do you do?
2016	Stephen King	Bazaar of Bad Dreams	Bad Dreams Bazaar
2017	Lawrence Block	Autumn at the automat
2018	John Crowley	Spring Break - New Haven Noir
2019	Art Taylor (writer)	English 398: Fiction Workshop

Best Critical or Biographical Work

year	Prize winner	Original title publisher, location year 1	German title publisher, location year 1
1977	Marvin Lachman , Otto Penzler , Charles Shibuk , Chris Steinbrunner	Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection McGraw-Hill, Columbus 1976
1978	John McAleer	Rex Stout Little, Brown & Co., Boston 1977
1979	Gwen Robins	The Mystery of Agatha Christie Doubleday, New York 1978
1980	Ralph E. Hone	Dorothy L. Sayers, A Literary Biography Kent State University Press, Kent 1979
1981	John M. Reilly	Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers St. Martin's Press, New York 1980
1982	Jon L. Breen	What About Murder? Scarecrow Press, Lanham 1981
1983	Roy Hoopes	Cain Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Orlando 1982
1984	Donald Spoto	The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock Little, Brown & Co., Boston 1983	Alfred Hitchcock: The dark side of the genius Kabel, Hamburg 1984
1985	Jon L. Breen	Novel Verdicts: A Guide to Courtroom Fiction Scarecrow Press, Lanham 1984
1986	Peter Lewis	John le Carre Ungar Press, New York 1985
1987	Eric Ambler	Here Lies: An Autobiography Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York 1986	Ambler Diogenes, Zurich 1986
1988	Leroy Lad Panek	Introduction to the Detective Story Popular Press, Madison 1987
1989	Francis M. Nevins, Jr.	Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die Mysterious Press, New York 1988
1990	Norman Sherry	The Life of Graham Greene Penguin, New York 1989
1991	John Conquest	Trouble is Their Business: Private Eyes in Fiction, Film, and Television, 1927–1988 Garland, New York 1990
1992	Kenneth Silverman	Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance HarperCollins, New York 1991
1993	John Loughery	Alias ​​SS Van Dine Scribner's, New York 1992
1994	Burl Barer	The Saint: A Complete History McFarland & Co., Jefferson 1993	The Saint: The Man Without a Name Goldmann, Munich 1997
1995	William L. DeAndrea	Encyclopedia Mysteriosa Pearson Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs 1994
1996	Robert Polito	Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1995
1997	Michael Atkinson	The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1996
1998	Natalie Hevener Kaufman , Carol McGinnis Kay	G is for Grafton: The World of Kinsey Millhone Henry Holt, New York 1997
1999	Maureen Corrigan , Robin W. Winks	Mystery and Suspense Writers Scribner's, New York 1998
2000	Daniel Stashower	Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle Henry Holt, New York 1999	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The life of the father from Sherlock Holmes Baskerville books, Cologne 2006
2001	Ethan Lewis , Robert Kuhn McGregor	Conundrums for the Long Week-End Kent State University Press, Kent 2000
2002	Dawn B. Sova	Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z Checkmark Books, New York 2001
2003	Mike Ashley	Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction Carroll & Graf, New York 2002
2004	Andrew Wilson (Author)	Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith Bloomsbury, New York 2003	Beautiful shadow - The life of Patricia Highsmith Berlin, Berlin 2003
2005	Leslie S. Klinger	The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories WW Norton & Co., New York 2004
2006	Melanie Rehak	Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her Harcourt Inc., San Diego 2005
2007	EJ Wagner	The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken 2006	EJ Wagner: The Science of Sherlock Holmes and the Beginnings of Forensic Medicine Weinheim, Wiley-VCH 2008
2008	Jon Lellenberg , Daniel Stashower , Charles Foley	Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters Penguin Press, New York 2007
2009	Harry Lee Poe	Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories Metro Books, New York 2008
2010	Otto Penzler	The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives Little, Brown & Co., New York 2009
2011	Yunte Huang	Charlie Chan : The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American History W. W. Norton, New York 2010
2012	Michael Dirda	On Conan Doyle, or, The Whole Art of Storytelling Princeton University Press, Princeton 2011
2013	James F. O'Brien	The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics Oxford University Press, 2012
2014	Erik Dussere	America is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture Oxford University Press, 2013
2015	JW ocher	Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe The Countryman Press, Woodstock / Vermont 2014
2016	Martin Edwards	The Golden Age of Murder HarperCollins Publishers
2017	Ruth Franklin	Shirley Jackson : A Rather Haunted Life W.W. Norton - Liveright
2018	Lawrence P. Jackson	Chester B. Himes : A Biography W.W. Norton & Company
2019	Leslie S. Klinger	Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s Pegasus Books, New York October 2018

1 = Publisher and publication dates refer to the original or German first editions

Best non-fiction book - Best Fact Crime

(1949 no award of the award)

year	Prize winner	Original title publisher, location year 1	German title publisher, location year 1
1948	Edward D. Radin	Twelve Against the Law Duel, Sloan & Pearce, New York 1946
1950	Joseph Henry Jackson	Bad Company Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York 1949
1951	Edward D. Radin	Twelve Against Crime Putnam, New York 1950
1952	St. Clair McKelway	True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality Random House, New York 1951
1953	Alder Stanley Gardner	The Court of Last Resort W. Sloane, New York 1952	Last refuge: criminal report Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1959
1954	John Bartlow Martin	Why Did They Kill? Ballantine Books, New York 1953
1955	Charles Boswell , Lewis Thompson	The Girl with the Scarlet Brand Fawcett Publications, New York 1954
1956	Manly Wade Wellman	Dead and Gone University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1954
1957	Charles Samuels , Louise Samuels	Night Fell on Georgia Dell Publishing, New York 1955
1958	Harold R. Danforth , James D. Horan	The DA's Man Crown Publishers, New York 1957
1959	Wenzell Brown	They Died in the Chair Popular Library, New York 1958
1960	Thomas Michael Gallagher	Fire at Sea: The Story of the Morro Castle Rinehart, New York 1959	Fire at Sea: The sinking of Morro Castle Verl. Dt. Folk books, Stuttgart 1960
1961	Miriam Allen deFord	The Overbury Affair Avon Book Division, New York 1960
1962	Barrett Prettyman Jr.	Death and the Supreme Court Harcourt, Brace & World, New York 1961
1963	Francis Russell	Tragedy in Dedham McGraw-Hill, New York 1962
1964	Gerold Frank	The Deed Simon & Schuster, New York 1963
1965	Anthony Lewis	Gideon's Trumpet Random House, New York 1964
1966	Truman Capote	In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences Random House, New York 1965	In cold blood: Truthful report on a multiple murder and its consequences Limes, Wiesbaden 1966
1967	Gerold Frank	The Boston Strangler New American Library, New York 1966	The strangler of Boston: A factual report Molden, Vienna / Munich 1967
1968	Victoria Lincoln	A Private Disgrace Putnam, New York 1967
1969	John Evangelist Walsh	Poe the Detective Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 1967
1970	Herbert B. Ehrmann	The Case That Will Not Die; Commonwealth vs: Sacco and Vanzetti Little, Brown & Co., Boston 1977
1971	Mildred Savage	A Great Fall Simon & Schuster, New York 1970
1972	Sandor Frankel	Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Stein & Day, New York 1971
1973	Lewis Chester , Magnus Linklater Stephen Fay	Hoax: The Inside Story of the Howard Hughes - Clifford Irving Affair Viking Press, New York 1972	Bluff-Story Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1972, ISBN 3-455-01940-4
1974	Barbara Levy	Legacy of Death Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1973
1975	Vincent Bugliosi , Curt Gentry	Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders W. W. Norton & Co., New York 1974	Helter Skelter: The murder frenzy of Charles Manson: A Chronicle of Horror Riva, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86883-057-6
1976	Tom Wicker	A Time to Die Quadrangle / New York Times Book Co., New York 1975
1977	Thomas Thompson	Blood and Money Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1976
1978	Barbara Amiel , George Jonas	By Persons Unknown: The Strange Death of Christine Demeter Grove Press, New York 1977
1979	Vincent Bugliosi, Ken Hurwitz	Til Death Do Us Part: A True Murder Mystery W. W. Norton & Co., New York 1978
1980	Robert Lindsey (Author)	The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage Simon & Schuster, New York 1979
1981	Fred Harwell	A True Deliverance Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1979
1982	Robert W. Greene	The Sting Man: Inside Abscam Dutton, New York 1981
1983	Richard Hammer	The Vatican Connection Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York 1982	A fair for the godfather SV Internat., Schweizer Verl.-Haus, Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-7263-6369-6
1984	Shana Alexander	Very Much a Lady: The Untold Story of Jean Harris and Dr. Herman Tarnower Little, Brown & Co., Boston 1983
1985	Mike Weiss	Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., Reading, Mass. 1984
1986	Natalie S. Robins , Stephen ML Aronson	Savage Grace William Morrow, New York 1985
1987	Carlton Stowers	Careless Whispers Taylor Publ., Dallas / Texas 1986
1988	Richard Hammer	CBS Murders William Morrow, New York 1987
1989	Harry N. MacLean	In Broad Daylight Harper & Row, New York 1988
1990	Jack Olsen	Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell Atheneum, New York 1989
1991	Peter Maas	In a Child's Name: The Legacy of a Mother's Murder Simon & Schuster, New York 1990
1992	David Simon	Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1991	Homicide: One year on murderous streets Kunstmann, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-88897-723-7
1993	Harry Farrell	Swift Justice: Murder and Vengeance in a California Town St. Martin's Press, New York 1992
1994	Bella Stumbo	Until the Twelfth of Never: The Deadly Divorce of Dan & Betty Broderick Pocket Books, New York 1993	Separation is the death of love: The unimaginable divorce drama of Betty Broderick Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, ISBN 3-404-13620-9
1995	Joe Domanick	To Protect and Serve: The LAPD's Century of War in the City of Dreams Pocket Books, New York 1994
1996	Pete Earley	Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town Batam Books, New York 1995
1997	Darcy O'Brien	Power to Hurt: Inside a Judge's Chambers: Sexual Assault, Corruption, and the Ultimate Reversal of Justice for Women Harper Collins Publishers, New York 1996
1998	Richard Firstman , Jamie Talan	The Death of Innocents Bantam Books, New York 1997
1999	Carlton Stowers	To the Last Breath: Three Women Fight for the Truth Behind a Child's Tragic Murder St. Martin's Press, New York 1998	Sheer horror Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2000, ISBN 3-404-14386-8
2000	James B. Stewart	Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away With Murder Simon & Schuster, New York 1999
2001	Dick Lehr , Gerard O'Neill	Black Mass: The Irish Mob, the FBI, & a Devil's Deal PublicAffairs, New York 2000
2002	Kent Walker	Son of a Grifter: The Twisted Tale of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the Most Notorious Con Artists in America: A Memoir by the Other Son William Morrow, New York 2001
2003	Joseph Wambaugh	Fire Lover: A True Story William Morrow, New York 2002
2004	Erik Larson	The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America Crown Publishers, New York 2003	The Devil of Chicago: An Architect, a Murderer and the World's Fair that Changed America Joke, Frankfurt / M .: 2004, ISBN 3-502-15395-7
2005	Leonard Levitt	Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder: A Reporter and a Detective's Twenty-year Search for Justice ReganBooks, New York 2004
2006	Edward Dolnick	Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece Harper Collins Publishers, New York 2005
2007	James L. Swanson	Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer HarperPerrenial, New York 2006
2008	Vincent Bugliosi	Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy W. W. Norton & Co., New York 2007
2009	Howard Blum	American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, Movie Making, and the Crime of the Century Crown Publishers, New York 2008
2010	Dave Cullen	Columbine Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York 2008
2011	Ken Armstrong , Nick Perry	Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 2010
2012	Candice Millard	Destiny of the Republic Doubleday, New York 2011
2013	Paul French	Midnight in Beijing: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China. Penguin Group USA, 2012
2014	Daniel Stashower	The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War Minotaur Books, New York 2013
2015	William J. Mann	Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood Harper, New York 2014
2016	All amusement	Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully HarperCollins Publishers
2017	Kate Summerscale	The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer Penguin Random House
2018	David Grann	Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI Penguin Random House - Doubleday 2017	The crime btb, Munich 2017
2019	Robert W. Fieseler	Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York 2018

1 = Publisher and publication dates refer to the original or German first editions

Prize winners special prizes

Lifetime Achievement Award - Grand Master Award

The Grand Master Award is the highest distinction and the most prestigious award from the MWA. Authors must not only have achieved special achievements in the crime genre during their literary life to date, but must also be characterized by consistently high literary quality. And so the names in the following list almost read like a "Who's Who in Crime" .

In the years 1956–1957, 1960, 1965, 1968 and 1977 the Grand Master Award was not given. It was not until 1979 that there was a regular, annual presentation at the Edgar Awards Banquet . Two or three award winners have been honored over several years.

• 1955 Agatha Christie
• 1958 Vincent Starrett
• 1959 Rex Stout
• 1961 Ellery Queen
• 1962 Alder Stanley Gardner
• 1963 John Dickson Carr
• 1964 George Harmon Coxe
• 1966 Georges Simenon
• 1967 Baynard Kendrick
• 1969 John Creasey
• 1970 James M. Cain
• 1971 Mignon G. Eberhart
• 1972 John D. MacDonald
• 1973 Judson Philips / Alfred Hitchcock
• 1974 Ross Macdonald
• 1975 Eric Ambler
• 1976 Graham Greene
• 1978 Ngaio Marsh / Dorothy B. Hughes / Daphne du Maurier
• 1979 Aaron Marc Stein
• 1980 WR Burnett
• 1981 Stanley Ellin
• 1982 Julian Symons
• 1983 Margaret Millar
• 1984 John le Carré
• 1985 Dorothy Salisbury Davis
• 1986 Ed McBain
• 1987 Michael Gilbert
• 1988 Phyllis A. Whitney
• 1989 Hillary Waugh
• 1990 Helen McCloy
• 1991 Tony Hillerman
• 1992 Elmore Leonard
• 1993 Donald E. Westlake
• 1994 Lawrence Block
• 1995 Mickey Spillane
• 1996 Dick Francis
• 1997 Ruth Rendell
• 1998 Barbara Mertz
• 1999 PD James
• 2000 Mary Higgins Clark
• 2001 Edward D. High
• 2002 Robert B. Parker
• 2003 Ira Levin
• 2004 Joseph Wambaugh
• 2005 Marcia Muller
• 2006 Stuart Kaminsky
• 2007 Stephen King
• 2008 Bill Pronzini
• 2009 James Lee Burke / Sue Grafton
• 2010 Dorothy Gilman
• 2011 Sara Paretsky
• 2012 Martha Grimes
• 2013 Ken Follett / Margaret Maron
• 2014 Robert Crais / Carolyn Hart
• 2015 Lois Duncan / James Ellroy
• 2016 Walter Mosley
• 2017 Max Allan Collins / Ellen Hart
• 2018 Jane Langton / William Link / Peter Lovesey
• 2019 Martin Cruz Smith
• 2020 Barbara Neely

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award

The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award is an award for young American writers of crime short stories. It has been awarded annually since 1984 (exception: 1992) by the Mystery Writers of America on the occasion of the presentation of the Edgar Allan Poe Awards at the Edgar Awards Banquet . The award is named after the US author Robert L. Fish (1912–1981). A cash prize will be donated from the writer's estate; in addition, the winner receives a certificate from the MWA. The Alaskan journalist Mike Doogan, who was nominated for the important Shamus Award in the category Best First Novel in 2007 for his first novel Lost Angel , recently demonstrated that the winners can also be successful with a "great novel" .

EQMM = Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | AHMM = Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

year	Award winners	Short story title	Anthology (publisher)
1984	Lilly Carlson	Locked Doors	EQMM, October 1983
1985	Bill Crenshaw	Poor dumb mouths	AHMM, May 1984
1986	Doug Allyn	Final rites	AHMM, December 1985
1987	Mary Kittredge	Father to the Man	AHMM, November 1986
1988	Eric M. Heideman	Roger, Mr. Whilkie!	AHMM, July 1987
1989	Linda O. Johnston	Different drummers	EQMM, July 1988
1990	Connie Colt	Hawks	AHMM, June 1989
1991	Jerry F. Skarky	Willie's story	AHMM, June 1990
1993	Stephen Saylor	A will is a way	EQMM, March 1992
1994	DA McGuire	Wicked twist	AHMM, October 1993
1995	Batya Swift Yasgur	Me and Mr. Harry	EQMM, December 1994
1996	James Sarafin	The Word for Breaking August Sky	AHMM, July 1995
1997	David Vaughn	Prosecutor of DuPrey	EQMM, January 1996
1998	Rosaland Roland	If Thine Eye Offend Thee	Murder X 13 (Crown Valley Press)
1999	Bryn Bonner	Clarity	EQMM, May 1998
2000	Mike Reiss	Cro-Magnon, PI	AHMM, July / August 1999
2001	MJ Jones	The Witch and the Relic Thief	AHMM, October 2000
2002	Ted Hertel, Jr.	My Bonnie Lies	Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers
2003	Mike Doogan	Was Can Be Murder	Mysterious North
2004	Sandy Balzo	The grass is always greener	EQMM, March 2003
2005	Thomas Morrissey	Can't Catch Me	Brooklyn Noir
2006	Eddie Newton	Home	EQMM, May 2005
2007	William Dylan Powell	Evening gold	EQMM, November 2006 (Dell Magazines)
2008	Mark Amons	The catch	Still Waters, (Level Best Books)
2009	Joseph Guglielmelli	Buckner's Error	Queens Noir (Ed .: Robert Knightly, Akashic Books)
2010	Dan Warthman	A Dreadfull Day	AHMM, January / February 2009 (Dell Magazines)
2011	Evan Lewis	Skyler Hobbs and the Rabbit Man	EQMM, February 2010
2012	David Ingram	A good man of business	EQMM, January 2011
2013	Patricia Smith	When They Are Done With Us	Staten Island Noir - Akashic Books
2014	Jeff Soloway	The Wentworth Letter	Malfeasance Occasional: Girl Trouble (Ed .: Clare Toohey, St. Martin's e-books)
2015	Zoe Z. Dean	Getaway girl	EQMM, November 2014
2016	Russell W. Johnson	Chung Ling Soo's greatest trick	EQMM, January 2015
2017	E. Gabriel Flores	The Truth of the Moment	EQMM, December 2016
2018	Lisa D. Gray	The Queen of Secrets	Akashic Books, New York August 2017
2019	Nancy Novick	How Does He Die This Time?	EQMM, August 2018

The Simon & Schuster - Mary Higgins Clark Award

The Mary Higgins Clark Award is a special prize for women authors whose novels are in the literary tradition of Mary Higgins Clark . In cooperation with the MWA, the publishing house Simon & Schuster , New York, sponsors an annual novel that is submitted for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the categories Best Novel, Best First Novel or Best Paperback Original . Identical to all categories of the Edgar Award, an MWA jury is appointed, which makes the selection on the basis of specified criteria (female protagonist of certain age, no brutal violence, no pronounced sex, etc.). The reason for the (originally) 10-year limited sponsorship is the 25-year successful collaboration between the publisher and the author, which was achieved in 2001 and who was president of MWA in 1987 and who also received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 2000 .

year	Laureate	Original title publisher, location year 1	German title publisher, location year 1
2001	Barbara D'Amato	Authorized Personnel Only Forge, New York 2000
2002	Judith Kelman	Summer of Storms Putnam, New York 2001	The past can be forever Knaur, Munich 2003
2003	Rose Conners	Absolute Certainty Scribner's, New York 2002
2004	M (arcia) K (ay) Preston	Song of the Bones Intrigue Press, Madison 2003
2005	Rochelle Majer Krich	Grave Endings Ballantine Books, New York 2004
2006	Karen Harper	Dark Angel MIRA Books, Don Mills 2005	Cora Black Wings , Hamburg 2006
2008	Sandi Ault	Wild Indigo Berkley Prime Crime, New York 2007
2009	Bill Floyd	The Killer's Wife St. Martin's Minotaur, New York 2008
2010	Sharon Bolton	Awakening Minotaur Books, New York 2009	Serpent House Manhattan, Munich 2009
2011	Elly Griffiths	The Crossing Places Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston 2010	Dead Path Wunderlich, Reinbek 2009
2012	Sara J. Henry	Learning to Swim Crown Publishers, New York 2011	A heartbeat to death dtv, Munich 2011
2013	Hank Phillippi Ryan	The Other Woman Forge Books, Ferndale 2012
2014	Jenny Milchman	Cover of Snow Ballantine Books, New York 2013	Ice grave Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 09/2014
2015	Jane Casey	The Stranger You Know Minotaur Books, New York 2014
2016	Lori Rader-Day	Little Pretty Things Seventh Street Books, Amherst / NY 2015
2017	Charles Todd (writer)	The Shattered Tree William Morrow, New York 2016
2018	Carol Goodman	The Widow's House Harper Collins, New York 2017
2019	Sujata Massey	The Widows of Malabar Hill Soho Crime, New York 2018

1 = Publisher and publication dates refer to the original or German first editions

Ellery Queen Award

The Ellery Queen Award , presented during the Edgar Awards Banquet , is intended for teams of authors and other outside personalities, such as: B. editors, publishers, screenwriters etc. who have made a special contribution to the mystery scene . The prize is awarded irregularly.

year	Prize winner	profession
1983	Emma Lathen (Mary Jane Latsis and Martha Henissart)	Women writers
1985	Joan Kahn	Writer, formerly Crime Ed. Harper & Row
1987	Eleanor Sullivan	Writer, formerly Ed. EQMM 1
1988	Ruth Cavin	Writer, Ed. St. Martin's Press
1989	Richard Levinson William Link	Screenwriting team (Inspector Columbo series)
1990	Joel Davis	writer
1992	Margaret Norton	Author
1994	Otto Penzler	Writer and publisher
1995	Martin Harry Greenberg	Ed.
1996	Jacques Barzun	Cultural historian and much more
1997	François Guérif	Author, publisher
1998	Hiroshi Hayakawa	film producer
1999	Sara Ann Freed	before Ed. Mysterious Press
2000	Susanne Kirk	Writer, formerly Ed. Scribners
2001	Douglas Greene	Ed. Crippen & Landru
2002	Janet Hutchings Cathleen Jordan	Ed.
2003	Ed Gorman	writer
2005	Carolyn Marino	Ed. HarperCollins Publishers
2006	Kate Stine Brian Skupin	Edited by Mystery Scene Magazine
2012	Joe Meyers	Journalist, Connecticut Post
2013	Johnny Temple	Founder and Editor of Akashic Books
2015	Charles Adai	Publisher of the Hard Case Crime publishing house
2016	Janet Rudolph	Founder of Mystery Readers International
2017	Neil Nyren	Chief Editor at GP Putnam's Son, New York
2018	Robert Pépin
2019	Linda Landrigan	Editor of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine

1 = "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine"

Edgar Awards and special prizes that are no longer given

Best Radio Play - Best Radio Drama

Between 1946 and 1960, the Mystery Writers of America awarded an Edgar Award for the best detective radio play or radio play series broadcast. In 1956, 1957 and 1959 the prize was not awarded. The technical development and increasing importance of television caused the MWA to discontinue this category. The teams of authors Robert Arthur / David Kogan (1950 + 1953) and James Moser / Jack Webb (1951 + 1952) were awarded twice in the Best Radio Drama category.

year	Author (s)	Radio play title	producer
1946	Frances + Richard Lockridge	Mr. and Mrs. North	National Broadcasting Company
	Frederic Dannay / Manfred B. Lee 1	Ellery Queen	Columbia Broadcasting System
1947	Howard Haycraft	The Adventures of Sam Spade	Columbia Broadcasting System
1948	William Spear	Suspense	Columbia Broadcasting System
1949	John Roeburt	Inner Sanctum	Columbia Broadcasting System
1950	Robert Arthur / David Kogan	Murder by experts	Mutal Broadcasting System
1951	James Moser / Jack Webb	Dragnet	National Broadcasting Company
1952	James Moser / Jack Webb	Dragnet	National Broadcasting Company
1953	Robert Arthur / David Kogan	The Mysterious Traveler	Mutal Broadcasting System
1954	E. Jack Neuman	The shot	Columbia Broadcasting System
1955	Stanley Niss	The Tree	Columbia Broadcasting System
1958	Jay MacMullen	The Galindez-Murphy Case: A Chronicle of Terror	Columbia Broadcasting System
1960	Lucille Fletcher	Sorry, wrong number	Columbia Broadcasting System

1 = The team of authors Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee became famous under the pseudonym "Ellery Queen"

Best Literary Criticism - Best Outstanding Mystery Criticism

Between 1946 and 1967, the Mystery Writers of America presented an Edgar Award for best literary criticism. While this was done annually until 1955, there were only four awards after that until 1967. The journalist, translator, author and later co-founder of the Mystery Writers of America and namesake of the Anthony Award , Anthony Boucher , was honored with most of the awards. But other prominent names can also be found in the list of critics: For example Helen McCloy , who was awarded the Nero Wolfe Award in 1980 for her novel Burn This .

year	Critic	publication
1946	Anthony Boucher	San Francisco Chronicle
1947	William C. Webber	Saturday Review of Literature
1948	Howard Haycraft	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
1949	James Sandoe	Chicago Sun-Times
1950	Anthony Boucher	New York Times
1951	Dorothy B. Hughes	Albuquerque Tribune
1952	Lenore Glen Offord	San Francisco Chronicle
1953	Anthony Boucher	New York Times
1954	Helen McCloy	Westport Town Crier
	Brett Halliday	Westport Town Crier
1955	Drexel Drake	Chicago Tribune
1957	Curtis W. Casewit	Denver Post
1961	James Sandoe	New York Herald Tribune
1964	Hans Stefan Santesson	The Saint Mystery Magazine
1967	John T. Winterly	Saturday Review

See also

• List of crime writers

Web links

• All categories and award winners (database, English)
• Official Site of the Mystery Writers of America

Remarks

1. ↑ 1973 filmed under the direction of Robert Altman (Ger. Death knows no return )
2. ↑ 1996 TV adaptation by Wolf Gremm under the same title
3. ↑ Ambler's most successful and best-known novel under the title Topkapi, changed in 1969 . It was filmed under this title as a comedy by Jules Dassin in 1964 . The most important roles played Melina Mercouri , Maximilian Schell , Robert Morley and Peter Ustinov , who was awarded an Oscar for his role as Simpson .
4. ↑ Filmed in England in 1965 by Martin Ritt . In the lead role Richard Burton , who was nominated for an Oscar.
5. ↑ 1966 filmed by Michael Anderson with Alec Guinness , George Segal , Max von Sydow and Senta Berger (German: The Quiller Memorandum - Danger from the Dark )
6. ↑ 1973 filmed by Stuart Rosenberg under the title The Laughing Policeman (German mass murder in San Francisco )
7. ↑ Filmed in 1973 under the direction of Fred Zinnemann . An American remake less oriented towards the original was made in 1997 under the direction of Michael Caton-Jones (with Bruce Willis , Sidney Poitier , Richard Gere, among others ).
8. ↑ 1980 made into a film by Ronald Neame (with Walter Matthau )
9. ^ Also later published under the title On own account (Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998)
10. ↑ Filmed in 1981 by Richard Marquand . In the main and title role Donald Sutherland . The film was nominated for the 1982 Edgar Award in the Best Motion Picture category.
11. ↑ 1996 BBC television adaptation of Stuart Orme
12. ↑ The US edition was only published in 2013 by Penguin Books, New York. The novel was therefore included in the 2013 Edgar Awards.
13. ↑ some editions with full name: James David Horan
14. ↑ changing spelling of the author's name: In Germany (according to DNB ) as Thomas Gallagher . In the Anglo-American language area (according to WorldCat ) as Thomas Michael Gallagher . Incorrectly in the MWA database (currently (01/2018) only accessible via the official site of the Mystery Writers of America (English)) as Thomas Gallager .
15. ↑ later editions almost exclusively under the short title In Cold Blood ; Filmed in 1967 by Richard Brooks
16. ↑ later editions almost exclusively under the short title in cold blood
17. ↑ Biography of Lizzie Borden
18. ↑ here correct spelling of the author's name. The one in the MWA database, also in Roger M. Simon: The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians. Scottsdale / Arizona: Poisened Pen Press, Edition 2007 and the name Linkletter listed on the web by multiple copies is incorrect and not listed in international library catalogs or VIAF. See for everyone here (English, accessed August 4, 2011)
19. ↑ 1976 filmed by Tom Gries; 2004 remake by John Gray