The Falcon Award

The Falcon Award is awarded annually by the Japanese chapter of The Maltese Falcon Society to honor the best hard-boiled mystery novel published in Japan.

2007: Under the Skin by James Carlos Blake

2006: Lost Light by Tess Gerritsen

2005: The Wrong Goodbye by Toshihiko Yahagi

2004: No award given.

2003: No award given.

2002: No award given.

2001: No award given.

2000: No award given.

1999: The Big Blowdown by George P. Pelecanos

1998: No award given.

1997: White Jazz by James Ellroy

1996: No award given.

1995: The Black Ice by Michael Connelly

1994: A Cool Breeze on the Underground by Don Winslow

1993: Book Case by Stephen Greenleaf

1992: A Ticket to the Boneyard by Lawrence Block

1991: F is for Fugitive by Sue Grafton

1990: A Girl Who I Killed by Ryo Hara

1989: Strega by Andrew Vachss

1988: Hard Line by Michael Z. Lewin

1987: When the Sacred Ginmill Closes by Lawrence Block

1986: Hammett by Joe Goes

1985: The Wrong Case by James Crumley

1984: The Old Dick by L. A. Morse

1983: Early Autumn by Robert B. Parker