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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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1953 | William Campbell Gault | Don't Cry for Me E.P. Dutton, New York 1952 |
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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 |
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1956 | Lane Kauffman | The Perfectionist Lippincott, 1955 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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1985 | RD roses | Strike Three, You're Dead Walker & Co., New York 1984 |
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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 |
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1989 | David Stout | Carolina Skeletons Mysterious Press, New York 1988 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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2010 | Stefanie Pintoff | In the Shadow of Gotham St. Martin's Minotaur, New York 2009 |
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2011 | Bruce DeSilva | Rogue Island Forge, New York 2010 |
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2012 | Lori Roy | Bent Road Dutton, New York 2011 |
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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 |
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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 |
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1973 | Richard Wormser | The Invader Gold Medal, New York 1972 |
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1974 | Will Perry | Death of an Informer Pyramid, New York 1973 |
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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 |
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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 |
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1979 | Frank Bandy | Deceit and Deadly Lies Charter, New York 1978 |
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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 |
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1984 | Margaret Tracy | Mrs. White Dell, New York 1983 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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1991 |
David Handler (aka Russell Andrews) |
The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald Bantam, New York 1990 |
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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 |
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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 |
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2000 | Ruth Birmingham | Fulton County Blues Berkley Prime, New York 1999 |
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2001 | Mark Graham | The Black Maria Avon Books, New York 2000 |
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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 |
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2004 | Sylvia Maultash Warsh | Find Me Again Dundurn Group, Toronto 2003 |
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2005 | Domenic Stansberry | The Confession Hard Case Crime, New York 2004 |
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2006 | Jeffrey Ford | Girl in the Glass Dark Alley, New York 2005 |
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2007 | Naomi Hirahara | Snakeskin Shamisen Delta Books, New York 2006 |
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2008 | Megan Abbott | Queenpin Simon & Schuster, New York 2007 |
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2009 | Meg Gardiner | China Lake Obsidian Mystery, New York 2008 |
Divine service Heyne, Munich 2008 |
2010 | Marc Strange | Body Blows Dundurn Press, Toronto 2009 |
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2011 | Robert Goddard | Long Time Coming Bantam Books, New York 2010 |
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2012 | Robert Jackson Bennett | The Company Man Orbit, New York 2011 |
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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 |
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2016 | Lou Berney | The Long and Faraway Gone HarperCollins Publishers |
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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 |
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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 |
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1986 | John Lutz | Ride the lightening | |
1987 | Robert Sampson | Rain in Pinton County |
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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 |
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1990 | Donald E. Westlake | Too many crooks | |
1991 | Lynne Barrett | Elvis Lives |
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1992 | Wendy Hornsby | Nine Sons |
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1993 | Benjamin M. Protection | Mary, Mary, Shut the Door |
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1994 | Lawrence Block | Keller's Therapy |
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1995 | Doug Allyn | The Dancing Bear |
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1996 | Jean B. Cooper | The Judge's Boy |
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1997 | Michael Malone | Red clay |
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1998 | Lawrence Block | Basement on the spot |
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1999 | Tom Franklin | Poachers |
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2000 | Anne Perry | Heroes |
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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 |
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2004 | G. Miki Hayden | The Maids |
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2005 | Laurie Lynn Drummond | Something About a Scar |
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2006 | James W. Hall | The catch |
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2007 | Charles Ardai | The Home Front |
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2008 | Susan Straight | The Golden Gopher |
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2009 | T. Jefferson Parker | Skinhead Central |
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2010 | Luis Alberto Urrea | Amapola |
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2011 | Doug Allyn | The Scent of Lilacs |
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2012 | Peter Turnbull | The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train |
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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 |
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1978 | John McAleer | Rex Stout Little, Brown & Co., Boston 1977 |
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1979 | Gwen Robins | The Mystery of Agatha Christie Doubleday, New York 1978 |
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1980 | Ralph E. Hone | Dorothy L. Sayers, A Literary Biography Kent State University Press, Kent 1979 |
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1981 | John M. Reilly | Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers St. Martin's Press, New York 1980 |
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1982 | Jon L. Breen | What About Murder? Scarecrow Press, Lanham 1981 |
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1983 | Roy Hoopes | Cain Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Orlando 1982 |
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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 |
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1986 | Peter Lewis | John le Carre Ungar Press, New York 1985 |
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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 |
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1989 | Francis M. Nevins, Jr. | Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die Mysterious Press, New York 1988 |
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1990 | Norman Sherry | The Life of Graham Greene Penguin, New York 1989 |
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1991 | John Conquest | Trouble is Their Business: Private Eyes in Fiction, Film, and Television, 1927–1988 Garland, New York 1990 |
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1992 | Kenneth Silverman | Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance HarperCollins, New York 1991 |
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1993 | John Loughery | Alias SS Van Dine Scribner's, New York 1992 |
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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 |
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1996 | Robert Polito | Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1995 |
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1997 | Michael Atkinson | The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1996 |
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1998 |
Natalie Hevener Kaufman , Carol McGinnis Kay |
G is for Grafton: The World of Kinsey Millhone Henry Holt, New York 1997 |
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1999 | Maureen Corrigan , Robin W. Winks | Mystery and Suspense Writers Scribner's, New York 1998 |
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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 |
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2002 | Dawn B. Sova | Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z Checkmark Books, New York 2001 |
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2003 | Mike Ashley | Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction Carroll & Graf, New York 2002 |
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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 |
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2006 | Melanie Rehak | Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her Harcourt Inc., San Diego 2005 |
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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 |
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2009 | Harry Lee Poe | Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories Metro Books, New York 2008 |
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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 |
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2011 | Yunte Huang |
Charlie Chan : The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American History W. W. Norton, New York 2010 |
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2012 | Michael Dirda | On Conan Doyle, or, The Whole Art of Storytelling Princeton University Press, Princeton 2011 |
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2013 | James F. O'Brien | The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics Oxford University Press, 2012 |
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2014 | Erik Dussere | America is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture Oxford University Press, 2013 |
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2015 | JW ocher | Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe The Countryman Press, Woodstock / Vermont 2014 |
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2016 | Martin Edwards | The Golden Age of Murder HarperCollins Publishers |
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2017 | Ruth Franklin |
Shirley Jackson : A Rather Haunted Life W.W. Norton - Liveright |
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2018 | Lawrence P. Jackson |
Chester B. Himes : A Biography W.W. Norton & Company |
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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 |
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1950 | Joseph Henry Jackson | Bad Company Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York 1949 |
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1951 | Edward D. Radin | Twelve Against Crime Putnam, New York 1950 |
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1952 | St. Clair McKelway | True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality Random House, New York 1951 |
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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 |
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1955 | Charles Boswell , Lewis Thompson | The Girl with the Scarlet Brand Fawcett Publications, New York 1954 |
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1956 | Manly Wade Wellman | Dead and Gone University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1954 |
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1957 | Charles Samuels , Louise Samuels | Night Fell on Georgia Dell Publishing, New York 1955 |
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1958 | Harold R. Danforth , James D. Horan | The DA's Man Crown Publishers, New York 1957 |
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1959 | Wenzell Brown | They Died in the Chair Popular Library, New York 1958 |
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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 |
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1962 | Barrett Prettyman Jr. | Death and the Supreme Court Harcourt, Brace & World, New York 1961 |
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1963 | Francis Russell | Tragedy in Dedham McGraw-Hill, New York 1962 |
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1964 | Gerold Frank | The Deed Simon & Schuster, New York 1963 |
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1965 | Anthony Lewis | Gideon's Trumpet Random House, New York 1964 |
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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 |
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1969 | John Evangelist Walsh | Poe the Detective Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 1967 |
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1970 | Herbert B. Ehrmann | The Case That Will Not Die; Commonwealth vs: Sacco and Vanzetti Little, Brown & Co., Boston 1977 |
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1971 | Mildred Savage | A Great Fall Simon & Schuster, New York 1970 |
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1972 | Sandor Frankel | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Stein & Day, New York 1971 |
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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 |
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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 |
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1977 | Thomas Thompson | Blood and Money Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1976 |
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1978 | Barbara Amiel , George Jonas | By Persons Unknown: The Strange Death of Christine Demeter Grove Press, New York 1977 |
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1979 | Vincent Bugliosi, Ken Hurwitz | Til Death Do Us Part: A True Murder Mystery W. W. Norton & Co., New York 1978 |
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1980 | Robert Lindsey (Author) | The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage Simon & Schuster, New York 1979 |
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1981 | Fred Harwell | A True Deliverance Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1979 |
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1982 | Robert W. Greene | The Sting Man: Inside Abscam Dutton, New York 1981 |
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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 |
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1985 | Mike Weiss | Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., Reading, Mass. 1984 |
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1986 | Natalie S. Robins , Stephen ML Aronson | Savage Grace William Morrow, New York 1985 |
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1987 | Carlton Stowers | Careless Whispers Taylor Publ., Dallas / Texas 1986 |
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1988 | Richard Hammer | CBS Murders William Morrow, New York 1987 |
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1989 | Harry N. MacLean | In Broad Daylight Harper & Row, New York 1988 |
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1990 | Jack Olsen | Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell Atheneum, New York 1989 |
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1991 | Peter Maas | In a Child's Name: The Legacy of a Mother's Murder Simon & Schuster, New York 1990 |
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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 |
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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 |
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1996 | Pete Earley | Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town Batam Books, New York 1995 |
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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 |
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1998 | Richard Firstman , Jamie Talan | The Death of Innocents Bantam Books, New York 1997 |
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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 |
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2001 | Dick Lehr , Gerard O'Neill | Black Mass: The Irish Mob, the FBI, & a Devil's Deal PublicAffairs, New York 2000 |
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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 |
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2003 | Joseph Wambaugh | Fire Lover: A True Story William Morrow, New York 2002 |
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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 |
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2006 | Edward Dolnick | Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece Harper Collins Publishers, New York 2005 |
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2007 | James L. Swanson | Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer HarperPerrenial, New York 2006 |
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2008 | Vincent Bugliosi | Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy W. W. Norton & Co., New York 2007 |
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2009 | Howard Blum | American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, Movie Making, and the Crime of the Century Crown Publishers, New York 2008 |
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2010 | Dave Cullen | Columbine Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York 2008 |
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2011 | Ken Armstrong , Nick Perry | Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 2010 |
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2012 | Candice Millard | Destiny of the Republic Doubleday, New York 2011 |
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2013 | Paul French | Midnight in Beijing: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China. Penguin Group USA, 2012 |
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2014 | Daniel Stashower | The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War Minotaur Books, New York 2013 |
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2015 | William J. Mann | Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood Harper, New York 2014 |
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2016 | All amusement | Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully HarperCollins Publishers |
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2017 | Kate Summerscale | The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer Penguin Random House |
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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 |
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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 |
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2004 | M (arcia) K (ay) Preston | Song of the Bones Intrigue Press, Madison 2003 |
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2005 | Rochelle Majer Krich | Grave Endings Ballantine Books, New York 2004 |
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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 |
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2009 | Bill Floyd | The Killer's Wife St. Martin's Minotaur, New York 2008 |
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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 |
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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 |
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2016 | Lori Rader-Day | Little Pretty Things Seventh Street Books, Amherst / NY 2015 |
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2017 | Charles Todd (writer) | The Shattered Tree William Morrow, New York 2016 |
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2018 | Carol Goodman | The Widow's House Harper Collins, New York 2017 |
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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 |
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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
Web links
- All categories and award winners (database, English)
- Official Site of the Mystery Writers of America
Remarks
- ↑ 1973 filmed under the direction of Robert Altman (Ger. Death knows no return )
- ↑ 1996 TV adaptation by Wolf Gremm under the same title
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Filmed in England in 1965 by Martin Ritt . In the lead role Richard Burton , who was nominated for an Oscar.
- ↑ 1966 filmed by Michael Anderson with Alec Guinness , George Segal , Max von Sydow and Senta Berger (German: The Quiller Memorandum - Danger from the Dark )
- ↑ 1973 filmed by Stuart Rosenberg under the title The Laughing Policeman (German mass murder in San Francisco )
- ↑ 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 ).
- ↑ 1980 made into a film by Ronald Neame (with Walter Matthau )
- ^ Also later published under the title On own account (Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998)
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 1996 BBC television adaptation of Stuart Orme
- ↑ The US edition was only published in 2013 by Penguin Books, New York. The novel was therefore included in the 2013 Edgar Awards.
- ↑ some editions with full name: James David Horan
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ later editions almost exclusively under the short title In Cold Blood ; Filmed in 1967 by Richard Brooks
- ↑ later editions almost exclusively under the short title in cold blood
- ↑ Biography of Lizzie Borden
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ 1976 filmed by Tom Gries; 2004 remake by John Gray