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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).

2013
• Doing It at the Dixie Dew by Ruth Moose (Minotaur Books)

2012
• Foal Play by Kathryn O'Sullivan

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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