Edgar Awards

1996

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  Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson

  Robert Polito

  Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work

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  The Bookman's Wake

  John Dunning

  Finalist · Best Novel

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  The Shadow Man

  John Katzenbach

  Finalist · Best Novel

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  The Summons

  Peter Lovesey

  Finalist · Best Novel

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  Fixed in His Folly

  David J. Walker

  Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author

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  Murder in Scorpio

  Martha C. Lawrence

  Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author

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  The Harry Chronicles

  Allan Pedrazas

  Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author

• See all 27 honored in 1996(24 books, 3 graphic novels)21 more

1995

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  Encyclopedia Mysteriosa

  William L. DeAndrea

  Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work

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  A Long Line of Dead Men

  Lawrence Block

  Finalist · Best Novel

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  Lights Out

  Peter Abrahams

  Finalist · Best Novel

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  Miami, It's Murder

  Edna Buchanan

  Finalist · Best Novel

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  Wednesday's Child

  Peter Robinson

  Finalist · Best Novel

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  Big Town

  Doug J. Swanson

  Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author

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  Mallory's Oracle

  Carol O'Connell

  Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author

• See all 28 honored in 1995(24 books, 4 graphic novels)22 more

1994

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  The Saint: A Complete History

  Burl Barer

  Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work

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  Free Fall

  Robert Crais

  Finalist · Best Novel

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  The Journeyman Tailor

  Gerald Seymour

  Finalist · Best Novel

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  Wolf in the Shadows

  Marcia Muller

  Finalist · Best Novel

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  Criminal Seduction

  Darian North

  Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author

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  The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz

  Manuel Ramos

  Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author

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  The List of 7

  Mark Frost

  Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author

• See all 26 honored in 1994(22 books, 4 graphic novels)20 more

1993

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  32 Cadillacs

  Joe Gores

  Finalist · Best Novel

• See all 1 honored in 1993(1 book)

1992

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1991

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1990

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1989

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1988

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1987

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1986

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1985

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1984

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  The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock

  Donald Spoto

  Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work

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  Caroline Minuscule

  Andrew Taylor

  Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author

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  Dead Man's Thoughts

  Carolyn Wheat

  Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author

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  Red Diamond, Private Eye

  Mark Schorr

  Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author

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  The Gold Solution

  Herbert Resnicow

  Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author

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  False Prophets

  Sean Flannery

  Finalist · Best Paperback Original

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  Hunter

  Eric Sauter

  Finalist · Best Paperback Original

• See all 19 honored in 1984(16 books, 3 graphic novels)13 more

1983

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  Cain

  Roy Hoopes

  Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work

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  Kahawa

  Donald E. Westlake

  Finalist · Best Novel

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  Split Images

  Elmore Leonard

  Finalist · Best Novel

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  The Captain

  Seymour Shubin

  Finalist · Best Novel

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  By Frequent Anguish

  S.F.X. Dean

  Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author

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  In the Heat of the Summer

  John Katzenbach

  Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author

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  Two If By Sea

  Ernest Savage

  Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author

• See all 22 honored in 1983(19 books, 3 graphic novels)16 more

1982

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  What About Murder?

  Jon L. Breen

  Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work

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  Bogmail

  Patrick McGinley

  Finalist · Best Novel

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  Death in a Cold Climate

  Robert Barnard

  Finalist · Best Novel

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  Dupe

  Liza Cody

  Finalist · Best Novel

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  The Amateur

  Robert Littell

  Finalist · Best Novel

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  Giant Killer

  Vernon Tom Hyman

  Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author

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  Murder at the Red October

  Anthony Olcott

  Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author

• See all 25 honored in 1982(21 books, 4 graphic novels)19 more