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Edgar Award The
Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the
Edgars ), named after
Edgar Allan Poe , are presented every year by the
Mystery Writers of America . They honor the best in
mystery fiction ,
non-fiction ,
television ,
film and
theatre published or produced in the past year. Categories in
2003 included:
* Best
novel * Best first novel by an author
* Best
paperback original
* Best critical / biographical
* Best fact
crime * Best
short story * Best young adult
* Best juvenile
* Best television episode teleplay
* Best motion picture screenplay
* Best play
Here is a list of the Edgar Best Novel award winners
*
2006 Jess Walter ,
Citizen Vince *
2005 T. Jefferson Parker ,
California Girl *
2004 Ian Rankin ,
Resurrection Men *
2003 S. J. Rozan ,
Winter and Night *
2002 T. Jefferson Parker ,
Silent Joe *
2001 Joe R. Lansdale ,
The Bottoms *
2000 Jan Burke ,
Bones *
1999 Robert Clark ,
Mr. White's Confession *
1998 James Lee Burke ,
Cimarron Rose *
1997 Thomas H. Cook ,
The Chatham School Affair *
1996 Dick Francis ,
Come to Grief *
1995 Mary Willis Walker ,
The Red Scream *
1994 Minette Walters ,
The Sculptress *
1993 Margaret Maron ,
Bootlegger's Daughter *
1992 Lawrence Block ,
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse *
1991 Julie Smith ,
New Orleans Mourning *
1990 James Lee Burke ,
Black Cherry Blues *
1989 Stuart M. Kaminsky ,
A Cold Red Sunrise *
1988 Aaron Elkins ,
Old Bones *
1987 Barbara Vine ,
A Dark Adapted Eye *
1986 L.R. Wright ,
The Suspect *
1985 Ross Thomas ,
Briarpatch *
1984 Elmore Leonard ,
La Brava *
1983 Rick Boyer ,
Billinsgate Shoal *
1982 William Bayer ,
Peregrine *
1981 Dick Francis ,
Whip Hand *
1980 Arthur Maling ,
The Rheingold Route *
1979 Ken Follett ,
The Eye of the Needle *
1978 William Hallahan ,
Catch Me: Kill Me *
1977 Robert B. Parker ,
Promised Land *
1976 Brian Garfield ,
Hopscotch *
1975 Jon Cleary ,
Peter's Pence *
1974 Tony Hillerman ,
Dance Hall of the Dead *
1973 Warren Kiefer ,
The Lingala Code *
1972 Frederick Forsyth ,
The Day of the Jackal *
1971 Maj Sjowall &
Per Wahloo ,
The Laughing Policeman *
1970 Dick Francis ,
Forfeit *
1969 Michael Crichton writing as Jeffrey Hudson,
A Case of Need *
1968 Donald E. Westlake ,
God Save the Mark *
1967 Nicholas Freeling ,
King of the Rainy Country *
1966 Adam Hall ,
The Quiller Memorandum *
1965 John le Carré ,
The Spy who Came in from the Cold *
1964 Eric Ambler ,
The Light of Day *
1963 Ellis Peters ,
Death of the Joyful Woman *
1962 J. J. Marric ,
Gideon's Fire *
1961 Julian Symons ,
Progress of a Crime *
1960 Celia Fremlin ,
The Hours Before Dawn *
1959 Stanley Ellin ,
The Eighth Circle *
1958 Ed Lacy ,
Room to Swing *
1957 Charlotte Armstrong ,
A Dram of Poison *
1956 Margaret Millar ,
Beast in View *
1955 Raymond Chandler ,
The Long Goodbye *
1954 Charlotte Jay ,
Beat not the Bones *
Mystery Writers of America's website *
List of the most honored Edgar Award nominees
