Gumshoe Awards
The Gumshoe Awards were a popular American award for criminal literary works. They were awarded from 2002 to 2008 in several categories by the American Internet magazine Mystery Ink (not to be confused with Mystery Inc. ). The magazine provided daily information on the entire world of crime, from reviews to authors, from events to readings and interviews. The editor David J. Montgomery became famous for his (English) crime blog Crime Fiction Dossier, one of the best blogs in the mystery genre.
The “Mystery Ink” magazine was not available in print and was the first online magazine in the world that , as expected, not only awarded prizes to printed novels, but also awarded an award for “Best Crime Internet Site”. Originally, only pages by authors were to be awarded prizes, but this restrictive principle was given up in 2004. As a small bow to crime fiction from the European part of the “Old World”, a new category was introduced in 2005: “ Best European Crime Novel” .
Categories
| category | Original title | awarded from - to |
|---|---|---|
| Best novel | Best Mystery (2002/3: "Best Novel") | 2002-2008 |
| Best thriller | Best thriller | 2005-2008 |
| Best European detective novel | Best European Crime Novel | 2005-2007 |
| Best first novel | Best First Novel | 2002-2008 |
| Award for life's work | Lifetime Achievement | 2002-2008 |
| Best crime thriller website | Best Crime Fiction Website (2002/3: "Best Author Website") |
2002-2008 |
Award winners
(All publisher and year information refer to the original or German first editions)
Best Novel - Best Mystery (2002/3: "Best Novel")
| year | Award winners |
Original title publisher, location year |
German title publisher, location year |
| 2002 | Thomas Perry | Pursuit Random House, New York 2001 |
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| 2003 | George P. Pelecanos | Hell to Pay Little, Brown & Co., Boston 2002 |
Anger in the stomach Rotbuch, Hamburg 2004 |
| 2004 | Steve Hamilton | Blood is the Sky Thomas Dunne Books, New York 2003 |
Heaven full of blood DuMont, Cologne 2003 |
| 2005 | Jim Fusilli | Hard, Hard City Putnam's, New York 2004 |
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| 2006 | Laura Lippman | To the Power of the Three William Morrow, New York 2005 |
The third girl Rütten & Loening, Berlin 2008 |
| 2007 | Julia Spencer-Fleming | All Mortal Flesh Thomas Dunne Books, New York 2006 |
Who is burdened with guilt Knaur, Munich 2009 |
| 2008 | James Lee Burke | The Tin Roof Blowdown Simon & Schuster, New York 2007 |
Best Thriller - Best Thriller
| year | Award winners |
Original title publisher, location year |
German title publisher, location year |
| 2005 | Barry Eisler | Rain Storm Putnam's, New York 2004 |
Tokyo Killer - The Treason Scherz, Bern a. a. 2006 |
| 2006 | Joseph Finder | Company Man St. Martin's Press, New York 2005 |
Jobkiller Heyne, Munich 2008 |
| 2007 | Robert Ferrigno | Prayers for the Assassin Scribner, New York 2006 |
Prayers for the assassin Bucheinband.de, Heidenau 2013 |
| 2008 | Robert Crais | The Watchman Simon & Schuster, New York 2007 |
Best European Crime Novel
No award: 2008
| year | Award winners | nationality |
US title publisher, location year |
German title publisher, location year |
| 2005 | Henning Mankell | Sweden | The Return of the Dancing Master The New Press, New York 2003 |
The return of the dance teacher Zsolnay, Vienna 2002 |
| 2006 | Robert Wilson | England | The Vanished Hands Harcourt, New York 2006 |
The dead by Santa Clara Page & Turner, Munich 2005 |
| 2007 | Karin Fossum | Norway | When the Devil Holds the Candle Harcourt, New York 2006 |
Dark sleep Piper, Munich 2002 |
Best First Novel
| year | Award winners |
Original title publisher, location year |
German title publisher, location year |
| 2002 | CJ box | Putnam's Open Season , New York 2001 |
No closed season Blanvalet, Munich 2003 |
| 2003 | Eddie Muller | The Distance Scribner, New York 2002 |
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| 2004 | PJ Tracy | Monkeewrench Putnam's, New York 2003 |
Game among friends Rowohlt TB, Reinbek 2003 |
| 2005 | Dylan Schaffer | Misdemeanor Man Bloomsbury, New York 2004 |
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| 2006 | Randall Hicks | The Baby Game Wordslinger Press, San Diego 2005 |
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| 2007 | John Hart | The King of Lies St. Martin's Minotaur, New York 2006 |
The King of Lies C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2007 |
| 2008 | Sean Chercover | Big City, Bad Blood William Morrow, New York 2007 |
Award for life's work - Lifetime Achievement
| year | Award winners | nationality |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Ross Thomas |
 United States
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| 2003 | Dick Francis |
 United Kingdom
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| 2004 | Ruth Rendell |
United Kingdom
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| 2005 | Lawrence Block |
United States
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| 2006 | Ed McBain |
United States
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| 2007 | Robert B. Parker |
United States
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| 2008 | Donald E. Westlake |
United States
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Best Crime Fiction Website (2002/3: "Best Author Website")
| year | Award winners | Website | Art |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Lee Child | LeeChild.com | Author page |
| 2003 | Michael Connelly | michaelconnely.com | Author page |
| 2004 | Sarah Weinman |
Confessions of Idiosyncratic Mind sarahweinman.com |
Weblog |
| 2005 | January Magazine's Crime Fiction Section | januarymagazine.com/crfiction/crfiction.html | Literature online magazine |
| 2006 | CrimeSpot.net (Graham Powell) | crimespot.net | Weblog |
| 2007 | Demolition Magazine | demolitionmag.com | Literature online magazine |
| 2008 | The Thrilling Detective Web Site | thrillingdetective.com | Website (Kevin Burton Smith) |
See also
Remarks
- ↑ The former editor of Mystery Ink, Prof. David J. Montgomery, informed in an email of January 10, 2012, 2:27 pm, that the Gumshoe Awards would no longer be awarded (Original: “We stopped presenting the Gumshoe Awards a few years back. We don't have any plans at the moment to resume them. " )
- ↑ The official website ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. to be continued by Montgomery (accessed January 11, 2012)
- ↑ later also under the title Jagdopfer bei Heyne, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-43430-1
