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.
2010 (nominees)
◊ Best Novel: The Missing by Tim Gautreaux (Knopf)
◊ Best Novel: The Odds by Kathleen George (St. Martin's Minotaur)
◊ Best Novel: The Last Child by John Hart (St. Martin's Minotaur)
◊ Best Novel: Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston (Ballantine)
◊ Best Novel: Nemesis by Jo Nesbo 
(HarperCollins)
◊ Best Novel: A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn (Atria)
◊ Best First Novel: The Girl She Used To Be by David Cristofano (Grand Central)
◊ Best First Novel: Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley (Touchstone)
◊ Best First Novel: The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf (Mira)
◊ Best First Novel: A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie
Littlefield (St.
Martin's Minotaur)
◊ Best First Novel: Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
(HarperCollins)
◊ Best First Novel: In the Shadow of Gotham by Stepfanie
Pintoff
(St. Martin's Minotaur)
◊ Best Paperback Original: Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)
◊ Best Paperback Original: Havana Lunar by Robert Arellano (Akaschic)
◊ Best Paperback Original: The Lord God Bird by Russell Hill (Caravel)
◊ Best Paperback Original: Body Blows by Marc Strange (Castle Street)
◊ Best Paperback Original: The Herring-Seller's Apprentice by L. C. Tyler (Felony & Mayhem)
◊ Best Juvenile: The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity
by Mac
Barnett
(Simon & Schuster)
◊ Best Juvenile: The Ring of Rocamadour (Red Blazer Girls) by Michael D. Beil (Knopf)
◊ Best Juvenile: Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn (Houghton Mifflin)
◊ Best Juvenile: Creepy Crawly Crime by Aaron Reynolds (Henry Holt)
◊ Best Juvenile: The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline by Nancy Springer (Philomel)
◊ Best Young Adult: Reality Check by Peter Abrahams (HarperCollins)
◊ Best Young Adult: If the Witness Lied by Caroline B. Cooney (Random House)
◊ Best Young Adult: The Morgue and Me by John C. Ford (Viking)
◊ Best Young Adult: Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone by Dene Low (Houghton Mifflin)
◊ Best Young Adult: Shadowed Summer by Saundra Mitchell (Delacorte)
2009
◊ Best Novel Blue Heaven: 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)
◊ 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)
◊ 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 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
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 Novel: The Bait by Dorothy Uhnak (Simon & Schuster)
◊ Best First Novel: 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.)