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.
2009
◊ Winner: Winter and Night by S. J. Rozan
2008
◊ Winner: No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
2007
◊ Winner: Under the Skin by James Carlos Blake
2006
◊ Winner: Lost Light by Tess Gerritsen
2005
◊ Winner: 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
◊ Winner: The Big Blowdown by George P. Pelecanos
1998
◊ No award given
1997
◊ Winner: White Jazz by James Ellroy
1996
◊ No award given
1995
◊ Winner: The Black Ice by Michael Connelly
1994
◊ Winner: A Cool Breeze on the Underground by Don Winslow
1993
◊ Winner: Book Case by Stephen Greenleaf
1992
◊ Winner: A Ticket to the Boneyard by Lawrence Block
1991
◊ Winner: F is for Fugitive by Sue Grafton
1990
◊ Winner: A Girl Who I Killed by Ryo Hara
1989
◊ Winner: Strega by Andrew Vachss
1988
◊ Winner: Hard Line by Michael Z. Lewin
1987
◊ Winner: When the Sacred Ginmill Closes by Lawrence Block
1986
◊ Winner: Hammett by Joe Goes
1985
◊ Winner: The Wrong Case by James Crumley
1984
◊ Winner: The Old Dick by L. A. Morse
1983
◊ Winner: Early Autumn by Robert B. Parker