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The Best Traditional Mystery Contest
The annual Best Traditional Mystery Novel Contest is sponsored by Minotaur Books (an imprint of St. Martin's Press). 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).
- 2011
- Every Last Secret by Linda Rodriguez
- 2010
- 2009
- The End Game by Gerrie Ferris Finger
- 2008
- Dead Posh (published as The Cold Light of Mourning) 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
If present, indicates a review by Mysterious Reviews.
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