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).
2009
◊ Winner: The End Game by Gerri Ferris Finger
2008
◊ Winner: Dead Posh by Elizabeth Duncan
2007
◊ Winner: Posed for Murder by Meredith Cole
2006
◊ Winner: A Stranger Lies Here by Stephen Santogrossi
2005
◊ Winner: Murder in Exile by Vincent H. O'Neil
2004
◊ Winner: The Eight of Swords by David Skibbins
2003
◊ Winner: Southern Fried by Cathy Pickens
2002
◊ Winner: Murder Off Mike by Joyce Krieg
2001
◊ Winner: In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
2000
◊ Winner: The Gripping Beast by M. Wadley
1999
◊ Winner: Jackpot Justice by Marilyn Wooley
1998
◊ Winner: Murder with Peacocks by Donna Andrews
1997
◊ Winner: The Doctor Digs a Grave by Robin Hathaway
1996
◊ Winner: Simon Said by Sarah Shaber
1995
◊ Winner: Lie Down with Dogs by Jan Gleiter
1994
◊ Winner: Death in Still Waters by Barbara Lee
1993
◊ Winner: Something to Kill For by Susan Holtzer
1992
◊ Winner: The Man Who Understood Cats by Michael Allen Dymmoch
1991
◊ Winner: The Winter Widow by Charlene Weir
1990
◊ Winner: The Piano Man by Noreen Gilpatrick