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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. 2009 (nominees) Best Novel Blue Heaven by C. J. Box Best First Novel by an American Author: The Foreigner by Francie Lin Best Paperback Original: China Lake by Meg Gardiner Best Motion Picture Screenplay: In Bruges by Martin McDonagh Grand Masters: James Lee Burke and Sue Grafton 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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