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The Edgar® Award The Edgar Allan Poe Awards® (the "Edgars®") are awarded annually by the Mystery Writers of America to authors of distinguished work in various categories of the genre. 2008 Best Novel: Down River by John Hart Best First Novel by an American Author: In the Woods by Tana French Best Paperback Original: Queenpin by Megan Abbott Best Motion Picture Screenplay: Michael Clayton by Tony Gilroy Grand Master: Bill Pronzini 2007 Best Novel: The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Best First Novel by an American Author: The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson (Random House) Best Paperback Original: Snakeskin Shamisen by Naomi Hirahara (Bantam Dell) Best Motion Picture Screenplay: The Departed by William Monahan (Warner Bros.) Grand Master: Steven King 2006 Best Novel: Citizen Vince by Jess Walter (Regan Books) Best First Novel by an American Author: Officer Down by Theresa Schwegel (St. Martin's Minotaur) Best Paperback Original: Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford (Dark Alley) Best Motion Picture Screenplay: Syriana by Stephen Gaghan, based on the novel by Robert Baer (Warner Bros.) Grand Master: Stuart Kaminsky 2005 Best Novel: California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker (Wm. Morrow) Best First Novel: Country of Origin by Don Lee (W.W. Norton & Company) Best Paperback Original: The Confession by Domenic Stansberry (Hard Case Crime) Best Motion Picture Screenplay: A Very Long Engagement by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, based on the novel by Sebastien Japrisot (2003 Productions) Grand Master: Marcia Muller 2004 Best Novel: Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin (Little, Brown) Best First Novel: Death of a Nationalist by Rebecca Pawel (Soho Press) Best Paperback Original: Find Me Again by Sylvia Maultash Warsh (Dundurn Group) Grand Master: Joseph Wambaugh 2003 Best Novel: Winter and Night by S. J. Rozan (St. Martin's Minotaur) Best First Novel: The Blue Edge of Midnight by Jonathon King (Dutton) Best Paperback Original: Out of Sight by T.J. MacGregor (Pinnacle) Grand Master: Ira Levin 2002 Best Novel: Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker (Hyperion) Best First Novel: Line of Vision by David Ellis (G.P. Putnam's Sons) Best Paperback Original: Adios Muchachos by Daniel Chavarria (Akashic Books) Grand Master: Robert B. Parker 2001 Best Novel: The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale (Mysterious Press) Best First Novel: Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss (Random House) Best Paperback Original: The Black Maria by Mark Graham (Avon) Grand Master: Edward D. Hoch 2000 Best Novel: Bones by Jan Burke (Simon & Schuster) Best First Novel: The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison (St. Martin's Press) Best Paperback Original: Fulton County Blues by Ruth Birmingham (Berkley Prime Books) Grand Master: Mark Higgins Clark 1999 Best Novel: Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark (Picador w:st="on">USA) Best First Novel: A Cold Day in Paradise by Steve Hamilton (St. Martin's Press) Best Paperback Original: The Widower's Two-Step by Rick Riordan (Bantam) Grand Master: P. D. James 1998 Best Novel: Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke (Hyperion) Best First Novel: Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon (Broadway Books) Best Paperback Original: Charm City by Laura Lippman (Avon) Grand Master: Barbara Mertz (Elizabeth Peters, Barbara Michaels) 1997 Best Novel: The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook (Bantam) Best First Novel: Simple Justice by John Morgan Wilson (Doubleday) Best Paperback Original: Fade Away by Harlan Coben (Dell) Grand Master: Ruth Rendell 1996 Best Novel: Come to Grief by Dick Francis (Putnam) Best First Novel: Penance by David Housewright (Foul Play/Countryman Press) Best Paperback Original: Tarnished Blue by William Heffernan (Onyx) Grand Master: Dick Francis 1995 Best Novel: The Red Scream by Mary Willis Walker (Doubleday) Best First Novel: The Caveman's Valentine by George Dawes Green (Warner Books) Best Paperback Original: Final Appeal by Lisa Scottoline (Harper) Grand Master: Mickey Spillane 1994 Best Novel: The Sculptress by Minette Walters (St. Martin's Press) Best First Novel: A Grave Talent by Laurie R. King (St. Martin's Press) Best Paperback Original: Dead Folk's Blues by Steven Womack (Ballantine) Grand Master: Lawrence Block 1993 Best Novel: Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron (Mysterious Press) Best First Novel: The Black Echo by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown) Best Paperback Original: A Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow (Berkley) Grand Master: Donald E. Westlake 1992 Best Novel: A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block (Wm. Morrow) Best First Novel: Slow Motion Riot by Peter Blauner (Wm. Morrow) Best Paperback Original: Dark Maze by Thomas Adcock (Pocket Books) Grand Master: Elmore Leonard 1991 Best Novel: New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith (St. Martin's Press) Best First Novel: Postmortem by Patricia D. Cornwell (Scribners) Best Paperback Original: The Man Who Would Be F.Scott Fitzgerald by David Handler (Bantam) Grand Master: Tony Hillerman 1990 Best Novel: Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke (Little, Brown) Best First Novel: The Last Billable Hour by Susan Wolfe (St. Martin's Press) Best Paperback Original: The Rain by Keith Peterson (Bantam) Grand Master: Helen McCloy 1989 Best Novel: A Cold Red Sunrise by Stuart M. Kaminsky (Scribners) Best First Novel: Carolina Skeletons by David Stout (Mysterious Press) Best Paperback Original: The Telling of Lies by Timothy Findley (Dell) Grand Master: Hillary Waugh 1988 Best Novel: Old Bones by Aaron Elkins (Mysterious Press) Best First Novel: Death Among Strangers by Deidre S. Laiken (Macmillan) Best Paperback Original: Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb (TSR) Grand Master: Phyllis A. Whitney 1987 Best Novel: A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine (Bantam) Best First Novel: No One Rides for Free by Larry Beinhart (Wm. Morrow) Best Paperback Original: The Junkyard Dog by Robert Campbell (Signet) Grand Master: Michael Gilbert 1986 Best Novel: The Suspect by L.R. Wright (Viking) Best First Novel: When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman (Atheneum) Best Paperback Original: Pigs Get Fat by Warren Murphy (NAL) Grand Master: Ed McBain 1985 Best Novel: Briar Patch by Ross Thomas (Simon & Schuster) Best First Novel: Strike Three, You're Dead by R. D. Rosen (Walker) Best Paperback Original: Grandmaster by Molly Cochran, Warren Murphy (Pinnacle) Grand Master: Dorothy Salisbury Davis 1984 Best Novel: La Brava by Elmore Leonard (Arbor House) Best First Novel: The Bay Psalm Book Murder by Will Harriss (Walker) Best Paperback Original: Mrs. White by Margaret Tracy (Dell) Grand Master: John le Carre 1983 Best Novel: Billingsgate Shoal by Rick Boyer (Houghton Mifflin) Best First Novel: The Butcher's Boy by Thomas Perry (Scribners) Best Paperback Original: Triangle by Teri White (Ace/Charter) Grand Master: Margaret Millar 1982 Best Novel: Peregrine by William Bayer (Congdon & Lattes) Best First Novel: Chiefs by Stuart Woods (W. W. Norton & Co.) Best Paperback Original: The Old Dick by L.A. Morse (Avon) Grand Master: Julian Symons 1981 Best Novel: Whip Hand by Dick Francis (Harper & Row) Best First Novel: The Watcher by K. Nolte Smith (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan) Best Paperback Original: Public Murders by Bill Granger (Jove Books) Grand Master: Stanley Ellin 1980 Best Novel: The Rheingold Route by Arthur Maling (Harper & Row) Best First Novel: The Lasko Tangent by Richard North Patterson (W.W. Norton & Co.) Best Paperback Original: The Hog Murders by William L. DeAndrea (Avon) Grand Master: W. R. Burnett 1979 Best Novel: The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett (Arbor House) Best First Novel: Killed in the Ratings by William L. DeAndrea (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) Best Paperback Original: Deceit and Deadly Lies by Frank Bandy (Charter) Grand Master: Aaron Marc Stein 1978 Best Novel: Catch Me: Kill Me by William H. Hallahan (Bobbs-Merrill) Best First Novel: A French Finish by Robert Ross (Putnam) Best Paperback Original: The Quark Maneuver by Mike Jahn (Ballantine) Grand Masters: Daphne du Maurier, Dorothy B. Hughes, and Ngaio Marsh 1977 Best Novel: Promised Land by Robert B. Parker (Houghton Mifflin) Best First Novel: The Thomas Berryman Number by James Patterson (Little, Brown) Best Paperback Original: Confess, Fletch by Gregory McDonald (Avon) 1976 Best Novel: Hopscotch by Brian Garfield (M. Evans) Best First Novel: The Alvarez Journal by Rex Burns (Harper & Row) Best Paperback Original: Autopsy by John R. Feegel (Avon) Grand Master: Graham Greene 1975 Best Novel: Peter's Pence by Jon Cleary (Wm. Morrow) Best First Novel: Fletch by Gregory McDonald (Bobbs-Merrill) Best Paperback Original: The Corpse That Walked by Roy Winsor (Fawcett) Grand Master: Eric Ambler 1974 Best Novel: Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman (Harper & Row) Best First Novel: The Billion Dollar Sure Thing by Paul E. Erdman (Scribners) Best Paperback Original: Death of an Informer by Will Perry (Pyramid) Grand Master: Ross Macdonald (Kenneth Millar) 1973 Best Novel: The Lingala Code by Warren Kiefer (Random House) Best First Novel: Squaw Point by R.H. Shimer (Harper & Row) Best Paperback Original: The Invader by Richard Wormser (Gold Medal) Grand Masters: Alfred Hitchcock and Judson Philips 1972 Best Novel: The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth (Viking) Best First Novel: Finding Maubee by A.H.Z. Carr (Putnam) Best Paperback Original: For Murder I Charge More by Frank McAuliffe (Ballantine) Grand Master: John D. MacDonald 1971 Best Novel: The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo (Pantheon) Best First Novel: The Anderson Tapes by Lawrence Sanders (Putnam) Best Paperback Original: Flashpoint by Dan J. Marlowe (Gold Medal) Grand Master: Mignon C. Eberhart 1970 Best Novel: Forfeit by Dick Francis (Harper & Row) Best First Novel: A Time for Predators by Joe Gores (Random House) Best Paperback Original: The Dragon's Eye by Scott C.S. Stone (Gold Medal) Grand Master: James M. Cain 1969 Best Novel: A Case of Need by Jeffery Hudson (World) Best First Nove (tie): The Bait by Dorothy Uhnak (Simon & Schuster) and Silver Street by E. Richard Johnson (Harper & Row) Grand Master: John Creasey 1968 Best Novel: God Save the Mark by Donald E. Westlake (Random House) Best First Novel: Act of Fear by Michael Collins (Dodd, Mead) 1967 Best Novel: The King of the Rainy Country by Nicolas Freeling (Harper & Row) Best First Novel: The Cold War Swap by Ross Thomas (Morrow) Grand Master: Baynard Kendrick 1966 Best Novel: The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall (Simon & Schuster) Best First Novel: In The Heat of the Night by John Ball (Harper & Row) Grand Master: Georges Simenon 1965 Best Novel: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre (Coward-McCann) Best First Novel: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman (Crown) 1964 Best Novel: The Light of Day by Eric Ambler (Knopf) Best First Novel: Florentine Finish by Cornelius Hirschberg (Harper & Row) Grand Master: George Harmon Coxe 1963 Best Novel: Death and the Joyful Woman by Ellis Peters (Doubleday) Best First Novel: The Fugitive by Robert L. Fish (Simon & Schuster) Grand Master: John Dickson Carr 1962 Best Novel: Gideon's Fire by J. J. Marric (Harper) Best First Novel: The Green Stone by Suzanne Blanc (Harper) Grand Master: Erle Stanley Gardner 1961 Best Novel: The Progress of a Crime by Julian Symons (Harper) Best First Novel: The Man in the Cage by John Holbrooke Vance (Random House) Grand Master: Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay, Manfred B. Lee) 1960 Best Novel: The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin (Lippincott) Best First Novel: The Grey Flannel Shroud by Henry Slesar (Random House) 1959 Best Novel: The Eighth Circle by Stanley Ellin (Random House) Best First Novel: The Bright Road to Fear by Richard Martin Stern (Ballantine) Grand Master: Rex Stout 1958 Best Novel: Room to Swing by Ed Lacy (Harper) Best First Novel: Knock and Wait a While by William Rawle Weeks (Houghton Mifflin) Grand Master: Vincent Starrett 1957 Best Novel: A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong (Coward-McCann) Best First Novel: Rebecca's Pride by Donald McNutt Douglass (Harper) 1956 Best Novel: Beast in View by Margaret Millar (Random House) Best First Novel: The Perfectionist by Lane Kauffman (Lippincott) 1955 Best Novel: The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (Houghton Mifflin) Best First Novel: Go, Lovely Rose by Jean Potts (Scribners) Grand Master: Agatha Christie 1954 Best Novel: Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay (Harper) Best First Novel: A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin (Simon & Schuster) 1953 Best First Novel: Don't Cry for Me by William Campbell Gault (Dutton) 1952 Best First Novel: Strangle Hold by Mary McMullen (Harper) 1951 Best First Novel: Nightmare in Manhattan by Thomas Walsh (Little, Brown) 1950 Best First Novel: What A Body by Alan Green (Simon & Schuster) 1949 Best First Novel: The Room Upstairs by Mildred Davis (Simon & Schuster) 1948 Best First Novel: The Fabulous Clipjoint by Fredric Brown (Dutton) 1947 Best First Novel: The Horizontal Man by Helen Eustis (Harper) 1946 Best First Novel: Watchful at Night by Julius Fast (Rinehart & Co.) |
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