EDGAR AWARD

The 'Edgar Allan Poe Awards' (popularly called the 'Edgars'), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. They honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film and theatre published or produced in the past year.

Contents

Categories

Best Novel award winners

External links

Categories

Categories in 2003 included:

★ Best novel

★ Best first novel by an American author

★ Best paperback original

★ Best critical / biographical

★ Best fact crime

★ Best short story

★ Best young adult

★ Best juvenile

★ Best television episode teleplay

★ Best motion picture screenplay

★ Best play

Best Novel award winners

The award for Best Novel has been presented annually since 1954.

Year	Title	Author
1954	''Beat Not the Bones''	Charlotte Jay
1955	''The Long Goodbye''	Raymond Chandler
1956	''Beast in View''	Margaret Millar
1957	''A Dram of Poison''	Charlotte Armstrong
1958	''Room to Swing''	Ed Lacy
1959	''The Eighth Circle''	Stanley Ellin
1960	''The Hours Before Dawn''	Celia Fremlin
1961	''The Progress of a Crime''	Julian Symons
1962	''Gideon's Fire''	J. J. Marric
1963	''Death and the Joyful Woman''	Ellis Peters
1964	''The Light of Day''	Eric Ambler
1965	''The Spy Who Came in from the Cold''	John le Carre
1966	''The Quiller Memorandum''	Adam Hall
1967	''The King of the Rainy Country''	Nicolas Freeling
1968	''God Save the Mark''	Donald E. Westlake
1969	''A Case of Need''	Jeffery Hudson
1970	''Forfeit''	Dick Francis
1971	''The Laughing Policeman''	Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
1972	''The Day of the Jackal''	Frederick Forsyth
1973	''The Lingala Code''	Warren Kiefer
1974	''Dance Hall of the Dead''	Tony Hillerman
1975	''Peter's Pence''	Jon Cleary
1976	''Hopscotch''	Brian Garfield
1977	''Promised Land''	Robert B. Parker
1978	''	William H. Hallahan
1979	''The Eye of the Needle''	Ken Follett
1980	''The Rheingold Route''	Arthur Maling
1981	''Whip Hand''	Dick Francis
1982	''Peregrine''	William Bayer
1983	''Billingsgate Shoal''	Rick Boyer
1984	''La Brava''	Elmore Leonard
1985	''Briar Patch''	Ross Thomas
1986	''The Suspect''	L. R. Wright
1987	''A Dark-Adapted Eye''	Barbara Vine
1988	''Old Bones''	Aaron Elkins
1989	''A Cold Red Sunrise''	Stuart M. Kaminsky
1990	''Black Cherry Blues''	James Lee Burke
1991	''New Orleans Mourning''	Julie Smith
1992	''A Dance at the Slaughterhouse''	Lawrence Block
1993	''Bootlegger's Daughter''	Margaret Maron
1994	''The Sculptress''	Minette Walters
1995	''The Red Scream''	Mary Willis Walker
1996	''Come to Grief''	Dick Francis
1997	''The Chatham School Affair''	Thomas H. Cook
1998	''Cimarron Rose''	James Lee Burke
1999	''Mr. White's Confession''	Robert Clark
2000	''Bones''	Jan Burke
2001	''The Bottoms''	Joe R. Lansdale
2002	''Silent Joe''	T. Jefferson Parker
2003	''Winter and Night''	S. J. Rozan
2004	''Resurrection Men''	Ian Rankin
2005	''California Girl''	T. Jefferson Parker
2006	''Citizen Vince''	Jess Walter
2007	''The Janisarry Tree''	Jason Goodwin

External links

★ Mystery Writers of America's website

★ List of the most honored Edgar Award nominees