Best Traditional Mystery Novel Contest

The annual Best Traditional Mystery Novel Contest is sponsored by St. Martin's Minotaur. The contest is open to any professional or non-professional writer who has never been the author of a published traditional mystery novel (as defined by the contest sponsor).

2008: Dead Posh by Elizabeth Duncan

2007: Posed for Murder by Meredith Cole

2006: A Stranger Lies Here by Stephen Santogrossi

2005: Murder in Exile by Vincent H. O'Neil

2004 The Eight of Swords by David Skibbins

2003 Southern Fried by Cathy Pickens

2002 Murder Off Mike by Joyce Krieg

2001 In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming

2000 The Gripping Beast by M. Wadley

1999 Jackpot Justice by Marilyn Wooley

1998 Murder with Peacocks by Donna Andrews

1997 The Doctor Digs a Grave by Robin Hathaway

1996 Simon Said by Sarah Shaber

1995 Lie Down with Dogs by Jan Gleiter

1994 Death in Still Waters by Barbara Lee

1993 Something to Kill For by Susan Holtzer

1992 The Man Who Understood Cats by Michael Allen Dymmoch

1991 The Winter Widow by Charlene Weir

1990 The Piano Man by Noreen Gilpatrick