AGATHA AWARD

The 'Agatha Awards' are literary awards for mystery and crime writers who write mystery novels in the traditional method exemplified by Agatha Christie. They are named for Agatha Christie, the best selling mystery writer of all time. At an annual convention in Washington, D.C., the Agatha Awards are handed out by 'Malice Domestic Ltd', in five categories: Best Novel; Best First Mystery; Best Short Story; Best Non-Fiction; Best Children's/Young Adult Mystery.
Malice Domestic Ltd was established in 1989, and was incorporated as a corporation in 1992. It is governed by a volunteer board of directors.
According to them the genre for an Agatha novel is loosely defined as mysteries which contain no explicit sex or excessive gore or violence. It usually features an amateur detective, journalist, or an ordinary citizen, in a confined setting, with characters who know one another.

Contents

Awards

Best First Novel

Best Novel

Best Non-Fiction

Best Short Story

Best Children/Young Adult Fiction

Special Awards

Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement

Malice Domestic Poirot Award

See also

External links

Awards

Best First Novel

★ 2006 - ''The Heat of the Moon'' by Sandra Parshall (Poisoned Pen Press)

★ 2005 - ''Better Off Wed'' by Laura Durham (HarperCollins Publishers)

★ 2004 - ''Dating Dead Men'' by Harley Jane Kozak (Doubleday)

★ 2003 - ''Maisie Dobbs'' by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho Press Inc.)

★ 2002 - ''In the Bleak Midwinter'' by Julia Spencer-Fleming (St. Martin's Minotaur)

★ 2001 - ''Bubbles Unbound'', Sarah Strohmeyer (Dutton)

★ 2000 - ''Death on a Silver Tray'' by Rosemary Stevens (Berkley Prime Crime)

★ 1999 - ''Murder with Peacocks'' by Donna Andrews (Thomas Dunne Books)

★ 1998 - ''The Doctor Digs A Grave'' by Robin Hathaway (St. Martin's Minotaur)

★ 1997 - ''The Salaryman's Wife'' by Sujata Massey (HarperCollins)

★ 1996 - ''Murder On A Girl's Night Out'' by Anne George (Avon Books)

★ 1995 - ''The Body in the Transept'' by Jeanne M. Dams (Walker)

★ 1994 - ''Do Unto Others'' by Jeff Abbott (Ballantine)

★ 1993 - ''Track Of The Cat'' by Nevada Barr (Putnam)

★ 1992 - ''Blanche On The Lam'' by Barbara Neely (St. Martin's Press)

★ 1991 - ''Zero At The Bone'' by Mary Willis Walker (St. Martin's Press)

★ 1990 - ''The Body In The Belfry'' by Katherine Hall Page (St. Martin's Press)

★ 1989 - ''Grime And Punishment'' by Jill Churchill (Avon Books)

★ 1988 - ''A Great Deliverance'' by Elizabeth George (Bantam)

Best Novel

★ 2006 - ''The Virgin of Small Plains'' by Nancy Pickard (Random House)

★ 2005 - ''The Body in the Snowdrift'' by Katherine Hall Page (William Morrow)

★ 2004 - ''Birds of a Feather'' by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho Press)

★ 2003 - ''Letter From Home'' by Carolyn Hart (Berkley Prime Crime)

★ 2002 - ''You've Got Murder'' by Donna Andrews (Berkley Prime Crime)

★ 2001 - ''Murphy's Law'', Rhys Bowen (St Martin's Minotaur Books)

★ 2000 - ''Storm Track'', Margaret Maron (Mysterious Press)

★ 1999 - ''Mariner's Compass'' by Earlene Fowler (Berkley Publishing Group)

★ 1998 - ''Butchers Hill'' by Laura Lippman (Avon Books)

★ 1997 - ''The Devil In Music'' by Kate Ross (Viking)

★ 1996 - ''Up Jumps The Devil'' by Margaret Maron (Mysterious Press)

★ 1995 - ''If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him'' by Sharyn McCrumb (Ballantine)

★ 1994 - ''She Walks These Hills'' by Sharyn McCrumb (Scribner)

★ 1993 - ''Dead Man's Island'' by Carolyn Hart (Bantam)

★ 1992 - ''Bootlegger's Daughter'' by Margaret Maron (Mysterious Press)

★ 1991 - ''I.O.U.'' by Nancy Pickard (Pocket )

★ 1990 - ''Bum Steer'' by Nancy Pickard (Pocket )

★ 1989 - ''Naked Once More'' by Elizabeth Peters (Warner)

★ 1988 - ''Something Wicked'' by Carolyn G. Hart (Bantam)

Best Non-Fiction

★ 2006 - ''Don't Murder Your Mystery'' by Chris Roerden (Bella Rosa Books)

★ 2005 - ''Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her'' by Melanie Rehak (Harcourt)

★ 2004 - ''Private Eye-Lashes: Radio’s Lady Detectives'' by Jack French (Bear Manor Media)

★ 2003 - ''Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium'', edited by Elizabeth Peters and Kristen Whitbread; designed by Dennis Forbes. (William Morrow & Company)

★ 2002 - ''They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated, and Forgotten Mystery Novels'', edited by Jim Huang (Crum Creek Press)

★ 2001 - ''Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir'' by Tony Hillerman (HarperCollins)

★ 2000 - ''100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century'', edited by Jim Huang (Crum Creek Press)

★ 1999 - ''Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle'' by Daniel Stashower (Henry Holt & Company)

★ 1998 - ''Mystery Reader's Walking Guide To Washington D.C.'' by Alzina Stone Dale (Passport Books)

★ 1997 - ''Detecting Men (Pocket Guide)'' by Willeta L. Heising (Purple Moon Press)

★ 1996 - ''Detecting Women 2'' by Willetta L. Heising (Purple Moon Press)

★ 1995 - ''Mystery Readers Walking Guide-Chicago'' by Alzina Stone Dale (Passport Books, NTC Publishing Group)

★ 1994 - ''By A Woman's Hand'' by Jean Swanson and Dean James (Berkley Publishing Group)

★ 1993 - ''The Doctor, The Murder, The Mystery'' by Barbara D'Amato (Noble Press)

Best Short Story

★ 2006 - ''Sleeping with the Plush'' by Toni Kelner ''Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine''

★ 2005 - ''Driven to Distraction'' by Marcia Talley-Chesapeake Crimes II, Quiet Storm Publishing

★ 2004 - ''Wedding Knife'' by Elaine Viets (Chesapeake Crimes, Coordinating Editor: Donna Andrews, Quiet Storm Publishing)

★ 2003 - ''No Man’s Land'' by Elizabeth Foxwell in ''Blood On Their Hands'' (Berkley Prime Crime)

★ 2002 - ''The Dog That Didn't Bark'' by Margaret Maron, ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'', December 2002 and ''Too Many Cooks'' by Marcia Talley, ''Much Ado About Murder'', edited by Anne Perry (Berkley Prime Crime)

★ 2001 - ''The Would-Be-Widower'' by Katherine Hall Page, Malice Domestic X (Avon Books)

★ 2000 - ''The Man in the Civil Suit'' by Jan Burke, Malice Domestic 9 (Avon Books)

★ 1999 - ''Out of Africa'' by Nancy Pickard, ''Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder'' (Berkley Publishing Group)

★ 1998 - ''Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is A Vegetable'' by Barbara D’Amato, ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'', November 1998

★ 1997 - ''Tea for Two'' by M.D. Lake, ''Funnybones'' (Penquin)

★ 1996 - ''Accidents Will Happen'' by Carolyn Wheat, Malice Domestic 5 (Pocket)

★ 1995 - ''The Dog Who Remembered Too Much'' by Elizabeth Daniels Squire, Malice Domestic 4 (Pocket)

★ 1994 - ''The Family Jewels'' by Dorothy Cannell, Malice Domestic 3 (Pocket)

★ 1993 - ''Kim's Game'' by M.D. Lake, Malice Domestic 2 (Pocket)

★ 1992 - ''Nice Gorilla'' by Aaron and Charlotte Elkins, Malice Domestic 1 (Pocket)

★ 1991 - ''Deborah's Judgment'' by Margaret Maron, ''A Woman's Eye'' (Delacourte Press)

★ 1990 - ''Too Much To Bare'' by Joan Hess, ''Sisters in Crime 2'' (Berkley Publishing Group)

★ 1989 - ''A Wee Doch And Doris'' by Sharyn McCrumb, ''Mistletoe Mysteries'' (Mysterious Press )

★ 1988 - ''More Final Than Divorce'' by Robert Barnard, ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine''

Best Children/Young Adult Fiction

★ 2006 - ''Pea Soup Poisonings'' by Nancy Means Wright (Hilliard & Harris)

★ 2005 - ''Down the Rabbit Hole'' by Peter Abrahams, HarperCollins Publishers and ''Flush'' by Carl Hiaasen (Alfred A. Knopf)

★ 2004 - ''Chasing Vermeer'' by Blue Balliett (Scholastic Press)

★ 2003 - ''The 7th Knot'' by Kathleen Karr (Marshall Cavendish)

★ 2002 - ''Red Card: A Zeke Armstrong Mystery'' (The Zeke Armstrong Mysteries, 1) by Daniel J. Hale & Matthew LaBrot (Top Publications)

★ 2001 - ''Mystery Of The Haunted Caves: A Troop 13 Mystery'' by Penny Warner (Meadowbrook Press)

Special Awards

Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement

★ 2005 - H.F.R Keathing

★ 2004 - Marian Babson

★ 2003 - Barbara Mertz, Elizabeth Peters, and Barbara Michaels

★ 2002 - Tony Hillerman

★ 2001 - Mildred Wirt Benson

★ 2000 - Dick Francis

★ 1999 - Patricia Moyes

★ 1998 - Charlotte McLeod

★ 1997 - Emma Lathen

★ 1996 - Mary Stewart

★ 1994 - Mignon G. Eberhart

★ 1990 - Phyllis A. Whitney

Malice Domestic Poirot Award

★ 2005 - Ruth Cavin Thomas Dunne

★ 2004 - David Suchet

See also

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External links

★ Malice Domestic Ltd: Agatha Awards