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Edgar Awards

Edgar Award Statuette

The Edgar Award, named in honor of Edgar Allan Poe, is given by the Mystery Writers of America to the best in mystery fiction and nonfiction produced during the previous calendar year. While the first Award (for Best First Mystery by an American Author) was given in 1946, the first "Edgar" for Best Novel was awarded in 1954. Categories have developed over time and now include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Best Novel
  • Best First Mystery Novel by an American Author
  • Best Original Paperback
  • Best Non-fiction
  • Best Fact (True) Crime

Each year, the awards - ceramic statuettes of Edgar Allan Poe - are presented at the Mystery Writers of America's annual Gala Banquet. The next Banquet is to be held in April 2006.

Listed below are winners, with catalog links provided to those titles owned by Jacksonville Public Library. Titles which are greyed out may be requested through InterLibrary Loan, or recommended for purchase.

2008 NOVEL Down River by John Hart
FIRST MYSTERY In the Woods by Tana French
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Queenpin by Megan Abbott
FACT CRIME Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi
2007 NOVEL The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
FIRST MYSTERY The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Snakeskin Shamisen by Naomi Hirahara
FACT CRIME Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
2006 NOVEL Citizen Vince by Jess Walter
FIRST MYSTERY Officer Down by Theresa Schwegel
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford
FACT CRIME Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece by Edward Dolnick
NON-FICTION Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak
2005 NOVEL
 California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker
FIRST MYSTERY Country of Origin by Don Lee
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK The Confession by Domenic Stansberry
FACT CRIME Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder: A Reporter and a Detective's Twenty-Year Search for Justice by Leonard Levitt
NON-FICTION The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories edited by Leslie S. Klinger
2004 NOVEL
 Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin
FIRST MYSTERY Death of a Nationalist by Rebecca Pawel
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Find Me Again by Sylvia Maultash Warsh
FACT CRIME The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
NON-FICTION Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson
2003 NOVEL
 Winter and Night by S. J. Rozan
FIRST MYSTERY The Blue Edge of Midnight by Jonathon King
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Out of Sight by T. J. MacGregor
FACT CRIME Fire Lover by Joseph Wambaugh
NON-FICTION The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction by Mike Ashley
2002 NOVEL
 Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker
FIRST MYSTERY Line of Vision by David Ellis
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Adios Muchachos by Daniel Chavarriá
FACT CRIME Son of a Grifter by Kent Walker
NON-FICTION Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z by Dawn B. Sova
2001 NOVEL
 The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
FIRST MYSTERY A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK The Black Maria by Mark Graham
NON-FICTION England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter: Conundrums for the Long Weekend by Robert Kuhn MacGregor and Ethan Lewis
2000 NOVEL
 Bones by Jan Burke
FIRST MYSTERY The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Fulton County Blues by Ruth Birmingham
NON-FICTION Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle by Daniel Stashower
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1990s

1999 NOVEL
 Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark
FIRST MYSTERY A Cold Day in Paradise by Steve Hamilton
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK The Widower's Two-Step by Rick Riordan
1998 NOVEL
 Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke
FIRST MYSTERY Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Charm City by Laura Lippman
1997 NOVEL Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook
FIRST MYSTERY Simple Justice by John Morgan Wilson
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Fade Away by Harlan Coben
1996 NOVEL
 Come to Grief by Dick Francis
FIRST MYSTERY Penance by David Housewright
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Tarnished Blue by William Heffernan
1995 NOVEL
 Red Scream by Mary Willis Walker
FIRST MYSTERY The Caveman's Valentine by George Dawes Green
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Final Appeal by Lisa Scottoline
NON-FICTION Encyclopedia Mysteriosa by William L. DeAndrea
1994 NOVEL
 Sculptress by Minette Walters
FIRST MYSTERY A Grave Talent by Laurie King
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Dead Folk's Blues by Steven Womack
NON-FICTION The Saint: A Complete History by Burl Barer
1993 NOVEL
 Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron
FIRST MYSTERY The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK A Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow
1992 NOVEL
 A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block
FIRST MYSTERY Slow Motion Riot by Peter Blauner
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Dark Maze by Thomas Adcock
1991 NOVEL
 New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith
FIRST MYSTERY Postmortem by Patricia D. Cornwell
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald by David Handler
1990 NOVEL
 Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke
FIRST MYSTERY The Last Billable Hour by Susan Wolfe
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK The Rain by Keith Peterson
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1980s

1989 NOVEL
 A Cold Red Sunrise by Stuart M. Kaminsky
FIRST MYSTERY Carolina Skeletons by David Stout
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK The Telling of Lies by Timothy Findley
1988 NOVEL
 Old Bones by Aaron J. Elkins
FIRST MYSTERY Death Among Strangers by Deidre S. Laiken
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb
1987 NOVEL
 A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
FIRST MYSTERY No One Rides for Free by Larry Beinhart
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK The Junkyard Dog by Robert Campbell
1986 NOVEL
 The Suspect by L.R. Wright
FIRST MYSTERY When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Pigs Get Fat by Warren Murphy
1985 NOVEL
 Briar Patch by Ross Thomas
FIRST MYSTERY Strike Three, You're Dead by R. D. Rosen
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Grandmaster by Warren Murphy
1984 NOVEL
 La Brava by Elmore Leonard
FIRST MYSTERY The Bay Psalm Book Murder by Will Harriss
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Mrs. White by Margaret Tracy
1983 NOVEL
 Billingsgate Shoal by Rick Boyer
FIRST MYSTERY The Butcher's Boy by Thomas Perry
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Triangle by Teri White
1982 NOVEL
 Peregrine by William Bayer
FIRST MYSTERY Chiefs by Stuart Woods
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK The Old Dick by L. A. Morse
1981 NOVEL
 Whip Hand by Dick Francis
FIRST MYSTERY The Watcher by K. Nolte Smith
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Public Murders by Bill Granger
1980 NOVEL
 The Rheingold Route by Arthur Maling
FIRST MYSTERY The Lasko Tangent by Richard North Patterson
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK The Hog Murders by William L. DeAndrea
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1970s

1979 NOVEL
 The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
FIRST MYSTERY Killed in the Ratings by William L. DeAndrea
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Deceit and Deadly Lies by Frank Bandy
1978 NOVEL
 Catch Me: Kill Me by William H. Hallahan
FIRST MYSTERY A French Finish by Robert Ross
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK The Quark Maneuver by Mike Jahn
1977 NOVEL
 Promised Land by Robert B. Parker
FIRST MYSTERY The Thomas Berryman Number by James Patterson
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Confess, Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald
1976 NOVEL
 Hopscotch by Brian Garfield
FIRST MYSTERY The Alvarez Journal by Rex Burns
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Autopsy by John R. Feegel
1975 NOVEL
 Peter's Pence by Jon Cleary
FIRST MYSTERY Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK The Corpse That Walked by Roy Winsor
1974 NOVEL
 Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman
FIRST MYSTERY The Billion Dollar Sure Thing by Paul E. Erdman
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Death of an Informer by Will Perry
1973 NOVEL
 The Lingala Code by Warren Kiefer
FIRST MYSTERY Squaw Point by R. H. Shimer
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK The Invader by Richard Wormser
1972 NOVEL The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
FIRST MYSTERY Finding Maubee by A. H. Z. Carr
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK For Murder I Charge More by Frank McAuliffe
1971 NOVEL The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall
FIRST MYSTERY The Anderson Tapes by Lawrence Sanders
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Flashpoint by Dan J. Marlowe
1970 NOVEL Forfeit by Dick Francis
FIRST MYSTERY A Time for Predators by Joe Gores
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK The Dragon's Eye by Scott C. S. Stone
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1960s

1969 NOVEL
 A Case of Need by Michael Crichton writing as Jeffrey Hudson
FIRST MYSTERY (tie) The Silver Street by E. Richard Johnson
The Bait by Dorothy Uhnak
1968 NOVEL
 God Save the Mark by Donald E. Westlake
FIRST MYSTERY Act of Fear by Michael Collins
1967 NOVEL
 The King of the Rainy Country by Nicolas Freeling
FIRST MYSTERY The Cold War Swap by Ross Thomas
1966 NOVEL
 The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall
FIRST MYSTERY In the Heat of the Night by John Ball
1965 NOVEL
 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carré
FIRST MYSTERY Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman
1964 NOVEL
 The Light of Day by Eric Ambler
FIRST MYSTERY Florentine Finish by Cornelius Hirschberg
1963 NOVEL
 Death and the Joyful Woman by Ellis Peters
FIRST MYSTERY The Fugitive by Robert L. Fish
1962 NOVEL
 Gideon's Fire by J. J. Marric
FIRST MYSTERY The Green Stone by Suzanne Blanc
1961 NOVEL
 The Progress of a Crime by Julian Symons
FIRST MYSTERY The Man in the Cage by John Holbrooke
1960 NOVEL
 The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin
FIRST MYSTERY The Grey Flannel Shroud by Henry Slesar
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1950s

1959 NOVEL
 The Eighth Circle by Stanley Ellin
FIRST MYSTERY The Bright Road to Fear by Richard Martin Stern
1958 NOVEL
 Room to Swing by Ed Lacy
FIRST MYSTERY Knock and Wait a While by William Rawle Weeks
1957 NOVEL
 A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong
FIRST MYSTERY Rebecca's Pride by Donald McNutt Douglas
1956 NOVEL
 Beast in View by Margaret Milla
FIRST MYSTERY The Perfectionist by Lane Kauffman
1955 NOVEL
 The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
FIRST MYSTERY Go, Lovely Rose by Jean Potts
1954 NOVEL
 Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay
FIRST MYSTERY A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin
1953 FIRST MYSTERY
 Don't Cry for Me by William Campbell Gault
1952 FIRST MYSTERY
 Strangle Hold by Mary McMullen
1951 FIRST MYSTERY
 Nightmare in Manhattan by Thomas Walsh
1950 FIRST MYSTERY
 What a Body by Alan Green
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1940s

1949 FIRST MYSTERY The Room Upstairs by Mildred Davis
1948 FIRST MYSTERY The Fabulous Clipjoint by Fredric Brown
1947 FIRST MYSTERY The Horizontal Man by Helen Eustis
1946 FIRST MYSTERY Watchful at Night by Julius Fast
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