Readers Choice Award
The Readers Choice Award , formerly titled " Ellery Queen Readers' Award" (not to be confused with the Ellery Queen Award ), is an American literary award for crime short stories . Sponsored by the publishing house Dell Publishing , it has been presented annually since 1985 at the Edgar Awards Banquet of the authors' association Mystery Writers of America (MWA). The choice of the best short story of the year is made by the readers of the crime magazine Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine . By far the most successful author was Doug Allyn with eleven awards.
Award winners
- 1985 Clark Howard for Animals
- 1986 Clark Howard for Scalplock
- 1987 Robert Barnard for The Woman in the Wardrobe
- 1988 Clark Howard for The Dakar Run
- 1989 James Powell for A Dirge for Clowntown
- 1990 Clark Howard for Deeds of Valor
- 1991 Jeffery Deaver for The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown
- 1992 Doug Allyn for Candles in the Rain
- 1993 Doug Allyn for The Ghost Show
- 1994 Jan Burke for Unharmed
- 1995 Doug Allyn for Franconia Cat
- 1995 Jeffery Deaver for Gone Fishing
- 1996 Doug Allyn for Roadkill
- 1997 Jeffery Deaver for Double Jeopardy
- 1998 Kristine Kathryn Rusch for details
- 1999 Clark Howard for The Global Man
- 2000 Doug Allyn for The Death Row Pet Show
- 2001 Peter Sellers for Avenging Miriam
- 2002 Jeffery Deaver for Without Jonathan
- 2003 Doug Allyn for Palace in the Pines
- 2004 Doug Allyn for The Gin Mill
- 2005 Doug Allyn for Wolf Woman Bay
- 2006 Leigh Lundin (as L. Leigh ) for Swamped
- 2007 David Dean for Ibrahim's Eyes
- 2007 Edward D. Hoch for The Theft of the Ostracized Ostrich
- 2008 Kristine Kathryn Rusch The Secret Lives of Cats
- 2009 Mick Herron for Dolphin Junction
- 2009 Doug Allyn for An Early Christmas
- 2010 Dave Zeltserman for Archie's Been Framed
- 2011 PN Elrod for Beach Girl
- 2012 Doug Allyn for Wood-Smoke Boy
- 2013 Dave Zeltserman for Archie Solves the Case
- 2014 Doug Allyn for The Snow Angel
- 2016 Paul D. Marks for Ghosts of Bunker Hill
- 2017 Brendan Dubois for Duty, Honor, Hammet
- 2018 Stacy Woodson for Duty, Honor, Hammet