Edgar Award

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The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America.^[1] They honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film and theatre published or produced in the past year.

1 Categories
2 Best Novel award winners
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Categories

Categories in 2003 included:

Best novel
Best first novel by an American 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

[edit] Best Novel award winners

The award for Best Novel has been presented annually since 1954.

Year	Title	Author
1954	Beat Not the Bones	Charlotte Jay
1955	The Long Goodbye	Raymond Chandler
1956	Beast in View	Margaret Millar
1957	A Dram of Poison	Charlotte Armstrong
1958	Room to Swing	Ed Lacy
1959	The Eighth Circle	Stanley Ellin
1960	The Hours Before Dawn	Celia Fremlin
1961	The Progress of a Crime	Julian Symons
1962	Gideon's Fire	J. J. Marric
1963	Death and the Joyful Woman	Ellis Peters
1964	The Light of Day	Eric Ambler
1965	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	John le Carré
1966	The Quiller Memorandum	Adam Hall
1967	The King of the Rainy Country	Nicolas Freeling
1968	God Save the Mark	Donald E. Westlake
1969	A Case of Need	Jeffery Hudson
1970	Forfeit	Dick Francis
1971	The Laughing Policeman	Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
1972	The Day of the Jackal	Frederick Forsyth
1973	The Lingala Code	Warren Kiefer
1974	Dance Hall of the Dead	Tony Hillerman
1975	Peter's Pence	Jon Cleary
1976	Hopscotch	Brian Garfield
1977	Promised Land	Robert B. Parker
1978	Catch Me: Kill Me	William H. Hallahan
1979	Eye of the Needle	Ken Follett
1980	The Rheingold Route	Arthur Maling
1981	Whip Hand	Dick Francis
1982	Peregrine	William Bayer
1983	Billingsgate Shoal	Rick Boyer
1984	La Brava	Elmore Leonard
1985	Briar Patch	Ross Thomas
1986	The Suspect	L. R. Wright
1987	A Dark-Adapted Eye	Barbara Vine
1988	Old Bones	Aaron Elkins
1989	A Cold Red Sunrise	Stuart M. Kaminsky
1990	Black Cherry Blues	James Lee Burke
1991	New Orleans Mourning	Julie Smith
1992	A Dance at the Slaughterhouse	Lawrence Block
1993	Bootlegger's Daughter	Margaret Maron
1994	The Sculptress	Minette Walters
1995	The Red Scream	Mary Willis Walker
1996	Come to Grief	Dick Francis
1997	The Chatham School Affair	Thomas H. Cook
1998	Cimarron Rose	James Lee Burke
1999	Mr. White's Confession	Robert Clark
2000	Bones	Jan Burke
2001	The Bottoms	Joe R. Lansdale
2002	Silent Joe	T. Jefferson Parker
2003	Winter and Night	S. J. Rozan
2004	Resurrection Men	Ian Rankin
2005	California Girl	T. Jefferson Parker
2006	Citizen Vince	Jess Walter
2007	The Janissary Tree	Jason Goodwin

[edit] References

^ Neimeyer, Mark. "Poe and Popular Culture," collected in The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe. Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0521797276 p. 206