Edgar Awards (1946-2006)

Each year, the Mystery Writers of America bestows this award for a number of different categories, including Best Novel, Best First Novel, Best Young Adult, Best Juvenile, and Best Motion Picture. The award is named after Edgar Allen Poe, who is considered to be the father of mystery. More information on the Award can be found at http://www.mysterywriters.org.

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The number in parentheses after each book is the year in which it was awarded an Edgar Award.

Citizen Vince by Jess Walter (2006)

Officer Down by Theresa Schwegel (2006)

Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford (2006)

Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak (2006)

Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece by Edward Dolnick (2006)

Last Shot by John Feinstein (2006)

The Boys of San Joaquin by D. James Smith (2006)

Syriana (2006)

California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker (2005)

Country of Origin by Don Lee (2005)

The Confession by Domenic Stansberry (2005)

The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories edited by Leslie S. Klinger (2005)

Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder: A Reporter and a Detective's Twenty-Year Search for Justice by Leonard Levitt (2005)

Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett (2005)

A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot (2005)

Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin (2004)

Death of a Nationalist by Rebecca Pawel (2004)

Find Me Again by Sylvia Maultash Warsh (2004)

"The Maids" by G. Miki Hayden (2004)

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (2004)

Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson (2004)

Acceleration by Graham McNamee (2004)

Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the Belfry by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2004)

Dirty Pretty Things (2004)

Song of the Bones by M.K. Preston (2004)

Winter and Night by S.J. Rozan (2003)

The Blue Edge of Midnight by Jonathon King (2003)

Out of Sight by T.J. MacGregor (2003)

Fire Lover: A True Story by Joseph Wambaugh (2003)

Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction by Mike Ashley (2003)

The Wessex Papers: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3 by Daniel Parker (2003)

Harriet Spies Again by Helen Ericson (2003)

Chicago (2003)

War Can Be Murder by Mike Doogan (2003)

Absolute Certainty by Rose Conners (2003)

Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker (2002)

Line of Vision by David Ellis (2002)

Adios Muchachos by Daniel Chavarria (2002)

"Double-Crossing Delancey" by S.J. Rozan (2002)

Son of a Grifter by Kent Walker (2002)

Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z by Dawn B. Sova (2002)

The Boy in the Burning House by Tim Wynne-Jones (2002)

Dangling by Lillian Eige (2002)

Memento (2002)

Summer of Storms by Judith Kelman (2002)

The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale (2001)

A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss (2001)

The Black Maria by Mark Graham (2001)

Black Mass: The Irish Mob, The FBI, & A Devil's Deal by Dick Lehr, Gerard O'Neill (2001)

Conundrums for the Long Week-End by Ethan Lewis, Robert Kuhn McGregor (2001)

Counterfeit Son by Elaine Marie Alphin (2001)

Dovey Coe by Frances O'Roark Dowell (2001)

Traffic by Stephen Gaghan (2001)

Authorized Personnel Only by Barbara D'Amato (2001)

Bones by Jan Burke (2000)

The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison (2000)

Fulton County Blues by Ruth Birmingham (2000)

"Heroes" by Anne Perry (2000)

Blind Eye by James B. Stewart (2000)

Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle by Daniel Stashower (2000)

Never Trust a Dead Man by Vivian Vande Velde (2000)

The Night Flyers by Elizabeth McDavid Jones (2000)

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (2000)

Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark (1999)

A Cold Day in Paradise by Steve Hamilton (1999)

The Widower's Two-Step by Rick Riordan (1999)

To The Last Breath by Carlton Stowers (1999)

Mystery and Suspense Writers by Maureen Corrigan, Robin W. Winks (1999)

The Killer's Cousin by Nancy Werlin (1999)

Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief by Wendelin Van Draanen (1999)

Out of Sight by Scott Frank (1999)

Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke (1998)

Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon (1998)

Charm City by Laura Lippman (1998)

The Death of Innocents by Richard Firstman, Jamie Talan (1998)

G is for Grafton: The World of Kinsey Millhone by Natalie Hevener Kaufman, Carol McGinnis Kay (1998)

Ghost Canoe by Will Hobbs (1998)

Sparrows in the Scullery by Barbara Brooks Wallace (1998)

L.A. Confidential (1998)

The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook (1997)

Simple Justice by John Morgan Wilson (1997)

Fade Away by Harlan Coben (1997)

Power To Hurt by Darcy O'Brien (1997)

The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes by Michael Atkinson (1997)

Twisted Summer by Willo Davis Roberts (1997)

The Clearing by Dorothy Reynolds Miller (1997)

Sling Blade (1997)

Come to Grief by Dick Francis (1996)

Penance by David Housewright (1996)

Tarnished Blue by William Heffernan (1996)

Circumstantial Evidence by Pete Earley (1996)

Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson by Robert Polito (1996)

Prophecy Rock by Rob MacGregor (1996)

Looking for Jamie Bridger by Nancy Springer (1996)

The Usual Suspects (1996)

The Red Scream by Mary Willis Walker (1995)

The Caveman's Valentine by George Dawes Green (1995)

Final Appeal by Lisa Scottoline (1995)

To Protect and to Serve by Joe Domanick (1995)

Encyclopedia Mysteriosa by William L. DeAndrea (1995)

Toughing It by Nancy Springer (1995)

The Absolutely True Story of My Visit to Yellowstone with the Terrible Rupes by Willo Davis Roberts (1995)

Pulp Fiction (1995)

The Sculptress by Minette Walters (1994)

A Grave Talent by Laurie R. King (1994)

Dead Folk's Blues by Steven Womack (1994)

Until the Twelfth of Never by Bella Stumbo (1994)

The Saint: A Complete History by Burl Barer (1994)

The Name of the Game Was Murder by Joan Lowery Nixon (1994)

The Twin in the Tavern by Barbara Brooks Wallace (1994)

Falling Down (1994)

Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron (1993)

The Black Echo by Michael Connelly (1993)

A Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow (1993)

"Mary, Mary, Shut the Door" by Benjamin M. Schutz (1993)

Swift Justice by Harry Farrell (1993)

Alias S. S. Van Dine by John Loughery (1993)

A Little Bit Dead by Chap Reaver (1993)

Coffin on a Case by Eve Bunting (1993)

The Player by Michael Tolkin (1993)

A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block (1992)

Slow Motion Riot by Peter Blauner (1992)

Dark Maze by Thomas Adcock (1992)

"Nine Sons" by Wendy Hornsby (1992)

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon (1992)

Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance by Kenneth Silverman (1992)

The Weirdo by Theodore Taylor (1992)

Wanted...Mud Blossom by Betsy Byars (1992)

The Silence of the Lambs (1992)

New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith (1991)

Postmortem by Patricia D. Cornwell (1991)

The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald by David Handler (1991)

In a Child's Name by Peter Maas (1991)

Trouble is Their Business: Private Eyes in Fiction, Film, and Television, 1927-1988 by John Conquest (1991)

Mote by Chap Reaver (1991)

Stonewords by Pam Conrad (1991)

The Grifters (1991)

The Encyclopedia of World Crime, Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Law Enforcement by Jay Robert Nash (1991)

Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke (1990)

The Last Billable Hour by Susan Wolfe (1990)

The Rain by Keith Peterson (1990)

Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell by Jack Olsen (1990)

The Life of Graham Greene by Norman Sherry (1990)

Show Me the Evidence by Alane Ferguson (1990)

Heathers (1990)

A Cold Red Sunrise by Stuart M. Kaminsky (1989)

Carolina Skeletons by David Stout (1989)

The Telling of Lies by Timothy Findley (1989)

In Broad Daylight by Harry N. MacLean (1989)

Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die by Francis M. Nevins, Jr. (1989)

Incident at Loring Groves by Sonia Levitin (1989)

Megan's Island by Willo Davis Roberts (1989)

The Thin Blue Line Errol Morris (1989)

Old Bones by Aaron Elkins (1988)

Death Among Strangers by Deidre S. Laiken (1988)

Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb (1988)

"Soft Monkey" by Harlan Ellison (1988)

CBS Murders by Richard Hammer (1988)

Introduction to the Detective Story by Leroy Lad Panek (1988)

Lucy Forever and Miss Rosetree, Shrinks by Susan Shreve (1988)

Stakeout by Jim Kouf (1988)

A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine (1987)

No One Rides for Free by Larry Beinhart (1987)

The Junkyard Dog Robert Campbell (1987)

Careless Whispers by Carlton Stowers (1987)

Here Lies: An Autobiography by Eric Ambler (1987)

The Other Side of Dark by Joan Lowery Nixon (1987)

Something Wild by E. Max Frye (1987)

The Suspect by L.R. Wright (1986)

When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman (1986)

Pigs Get Fat by Warren Murphy (1986)

Savage Grace by Stephen M.L. Aronson, Natalie Robins (1986)

John le Carre by Peter Lewis (1986)

The Sandman's Eyes by Patricia Windsor (1986)

Witness by William Kelley, Earl W. Wallace (1986)

Detective and Mystery Fiction: An International Bibliography of Secondary Sources by Walter Albert (1986)

Briarpatch by Ross Thomas (1985)

Strike Three, You're Dead by R.D. Rosen (1985)

Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings by Mike Weiss Addison (1985)

Novel Verdicts: A Guide to Courtroom Fiction by Jon L. Breen (1985)

Night Cry by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (1985)

A Soldier's Story (1985)

La Brava by Elmore Leonard (1984)

The Bay Psalm Book Murder by Will Harriss (1984)

Mrs. White by Margaret Tracy (1984)

Very Much A Lady by Shana Alexander (1984)

The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock by Donald Spoto (1984)

The Callender Papers by Cynthia Voigt (1984)

Gorky Park (1984)

A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle by John Michael Gibson, Richard Lancelyn Green (1984)

Billingsgate Shoal by Rick Boyer (1983)

The Butcher's Boy by Thomas Perry (1983)

Triangle by Teri White (1983)

"There Are No Snakes in Ireland" by Frederick Forsyth (1983)

The Vatican Connection by Richard Hammer (1983)

Cain by Roy Hoopes (1983)

The Murder of Hound Dog Bates by Robbie Branscum (1983)

The Long Good Friday by Barrie Keefe (1983)

Peregrine by William Bayer (1982)

Chiefs by Stuart Woods (1982)

The Old Dick by L.A. Morse (1982)

The Sting Man by Robert W. Greene (1982)

What About Murder? by Jon L. Breen (1982)

Taking Terri Mueller by Norma Fox Mazer (1982)

Cutter's Way by Jeffrey Alan Fiskin (1982)

Whip Hand by Dick Francis (1981)

The Watcher by K. Nolte Smith (1981)

Public Murders by Bill Granger (1981)

A True Deliverance by Fred Harwell (1981)

Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers by John Reilly (1981)

The Seance by Joan Lowery Nixon (1981)

The Black Marble by Joseph Wambaugh (1981)

The Rheingold Route by Arthur Maling (1980)

The Lasko Tangent by Richard North Patterson (1980)

The Hog Murders by William L. DeAndrea (1980)

The Falcon and the Snowman by Robert Lindsey (1980)

Dorothy L. Sayers, A Literary Biography by Ralph E. Hone (1980)

The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore by Joan Lowery Nixon (1980)

The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton (1980)

The Bibliography of Crime Fiction, 1749 - 1975 by Allen J. Hubin (1980)

The Murderers' Who's Who by J.H.H. Gaute, Robin Odell (1980)

The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett (1979)

Killed in the Ratings by William L. DeAndrea (1979)

Deceit and Deadly Lies by Frank Bandy (1979)

Till Death Do Us Part by Vincent Bugliosi, Ken Hurwitz (1979)

The Mystery of Agatha Christie by Gwen Robins (1979)

Alone in Wolf Hollow by Dana Brookins (1979)

Magic by William Goldman (1979)

Catch Me, Kill Me by William H. Hallahan (1978)

A French Finish by Robert Ross (1978)

The Quark Maneuver by Mike Jahn (1978)

By Persons Unknown by Barbara Amiel, George Jonas (1978)

Rex Stout by John McAleer (1978)

A Really Weird Summer by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (1978)

The Late Show (1978)

Murder Ink by Dilys Winn (1978)

Mystery Writer's Handbook edited by Lawrence Treat (1978)

Promised Land by Robert B. Parker (1977)

The Thomas Berryman Number by James Patterson (1977)

Confess, Fletch by Gregory McDonald (1977)

Blood and Money by Thomas Thompson (1977)

Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection by Marvin Lachman, Otto Penzler, Charles Shibuk, Chris Steinbrunner (1977)

Are You in the House Alone? by Richard Peck (1977)

Family Plot (1977)

Hopscotch by Brian Garfield (1976)

The Alvarez Journal by Rex Burns (1976)

Autopsy by John R. Feegel (1976)

A Time To Die by Tom Wicker (1976)

Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien (1976)

Three Days of the Condor by David Rayfiel, Lorenzo Semple Jr. (1976)

Peter's Pence by Jon Cleary (1975)

Fletch by Gregory McDonald (1975)

The Corpse That Walked by Roy Winsor (1975)

Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry (1975)

The Dangling Witness by Jay Bennett (1975)

Chinatown (1975)

Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman (1974)

The Billion Dollar Sure Thing by Paul E. Erdman (1974)

Death of an Informer by Will Perry (1974)

"The Whimper of Whipped Dogs" by Harlan Ellison (1974)

Legacy of Death by Barbara Levy (1974)

The Long Black Coat by Jay Bennett (1974)

The Last of Sheila by Anthony Perkins, Stephen Sondheim (1974)

The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh (1974)

The Lingala Code by Warren Kiefer (1973)

Squaw Point by R.H. Shimer (1973)

The Invader by Richard Wormser (1973)

Hoax by Lewis Chester, Stephen Fay, Magnus Linkletter (1973)

Deathwatch by Robb White (1973)

Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer (1973)

Mortal Consequences: A History from the Detective Story to the Crime Novel by Julian Symons (1973)

Murder on the Menu by Jeanine Larmoth, Charlotte Turgeon (1973)

The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth (1972)

Finding Maubee by A.H.Z. Carr (1972)

For Murder I Charge More by Frank McAuliffe (1972)

Beyond A Reasonable Doubt by Sandor Frankel (1972)

Night Fall by Joan Aiken (1972)

The French Connection (1972)

A Catalogue of Crime by Jacques Barzun, Wendell Taylor (1972)

The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo (1971)

The Anderson Tapes by Lawrence Sanders (1971)

Flashpoint by Dan J. Marlowe (1971)

A Great Fall by Mildred Savage (1971)

The Intruder by John Rowe Townsend (1971)

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion by Ellio Petri, Ugo Pirro (1971)

Forfeit by Dick Francis (1970)

A Time for Predators by Joe Gores (1970)

The Dragon's Eye by Scott C.S. Stone (1970)

The Case That Will Not Die by Herbert B. Ehrmann (1970)

Danger at Black Dyke by Winfred Finlay (1970)

Z by Costa Gavras, Jorge Semprun (1970)

A Case of Need by Jeffery Hudson (1969)

The Bait by Dorothy Uhnak (1969)

Silver Street by E. Richard Johnson (1969)

Poe the Detective by John Evangelist Walsh (1969)

The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton (1969)

Bullitt (1969)

God Save the Mark by Donald E. Westlake (1968)

Act of Fear by Michael Collins (1968)

A Private Disgrace by Victoria Lincoln (1968)

Signpost to Terror by Gretchen Sprague (1968)

In The Heat of the Night (1968)

The King of the Rainy Country by Nicolas Freeling (1967)

The Cold War Swap by Ross Thomas (1967)

The Boston Strangler by Gerold Frank (1967)

Sinbad and Me by Kin Platt (1967)

Harper by William Goldman (1967)

The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall (1966)

In The Heat of the Night by John Ball (1966)

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966)

The Mystery of 22 East by Leon Ware (1966)

The Ipcress File by Bill Canaway, James Doran (1966)

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre (1965)

Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman (1965)

Gideon's Trumpet by Anthony Lewis (1965)

Mystery at Crane's Landing by Marcella Thum (1965)

Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1965)

Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1965)

The Light of Day by Eric Ambler (1964)

Florentine Finish by Cornelius Hirschberg (1964)

The Deed by Gerold Frank (1964)

Mystery of the Hidden Hand by Phyllis A. Whitney (1964)

Charade (1964)

Any Number Can Play (1964)

Down These Mean Streets by Philip Durham (1964)

Death and the Joyful Woman by Ellis Peters (1963)

The Fugitive by Robert L. Fish (1963)

Tragedy in Dedham by Francis Russell (1963)

Cutlass Island by Scott Corbett (1963)

Companion to Murder by E. Spencer Shew (1963)

The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow by Patrick Quentin (1963)

Gideon's Fire by J.J. Marric (1962)

The Green Stone by Suzanne Blanc (1962)

Death and the Supreme Court by Barrett Prettyman Jr. (1962)

The Phantom of Walkaway Hill by Edward Fenton (1962)

Purple Noon by Rene Clement, Paul Degauff (1962)

The Annals of Murder by Thomas M. McDade (1962)

The Progress of a Crime by Julian Symons (1961)

The Man in the Cage by John Holbrooke Vance (1961)

The Overbury Affair by Miriam Allen deFord (1961)

The Mystery of the Haunted Pool by Phyllis A. Whitney (1961)

Psycho by Robert Bloch, Joseph Stefano (1961)

The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin (1960)

The Gray Flannel Shroud by Henry Slesar (1960)

Fire at Sea by Thomas Gallagher (1960)

North by Northwest by Ernest Lehman (1960)

Sapphire by Janet Green (1960)

The Eighth Circle by Stanley Ellin (1959)

The Bright Road to Fear by Richard Martin Stern (1959)

They Died in the Chair by Wenzell Brown (1959)

The Defiant Ones by Nathan E. Douglas, Harold Jacob Smith (1959)

American Murder Ballads by Olive Woolley Burt (1959)

Room to Swing by Ed Lacy (1958)

Knock and Wait a While by William Rawle Weeks (1958)

The D.A.'s Man by Harold R. Danforth, James D. Horan (1958)

Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose (1958)

A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong (1957)

Rebecca's Pride by Donald McNutt Douglass (1957)

Night Fell on Georgia by Charles Samuels, Louise Samuels (1957)

Compulsion by Meyer Levin (1957)

Beast in View by Margaret Millar (1956)

The Perfectionist by Lane Kauffman (1956)

Dead and Gone by Manly Wade Wellman (1956)

The Desperate Hours by Joseph Hayes (1956)

Diabolique (1956)

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (1955)

Go, Lovely Rose by Jean Potts (1955)

The Girl with the Scarlet Brand by Charles Boswell, Lewis Thompson (1955)

Rear Window (1955)

Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay (1954)

A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin (1954)

Someone Like You by Roald Dahl (1954)

Why Did They Kill? by John Bartlow Martin (1954)

The Big Heat by Sidney Boehm, William P. McGivern (1954)

The Frightened Wife and Other Murder Stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1954)

Don't Cry for Me by William Campbell Gault (1953)

"Something to Hide" by Philip MacDonald (1953)

Court of Last Resort by Erle Stanley Gardner (1953)

Five Fingers by Otto Lang, Michael G. Wilson (1953)

Strangle Hold by Mary McMullen (1952)

Fancies and Goodnights by John Collier (1952)

True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality by St. Clair McKelway (1952)

Nightmare in Manhattan by Thomas Walsh (1951)

"Diagnosis: Homicide" by Lawrence G. Blochman (1951)

Twelve Against Crime by Edward D. Radin (1951)

Mr. 880 by St. Clair McKelway (1951)

The Asphalt Jungle (1951)

What A Body by Alan Green (1950)

Bad Company by Joseph Henry Jackson (1950)

The Window by Mel Dinelli, Cornell Woolrich (1950)

The Room Upstairs by Mildred Davis (1949)

Call Northside 777 (1949)

Quai des Orfevres by Jenny Lamour (1949)

The Fabulous Clipjoint by Fredric Brown (1948)

Twelve Against the Law by Edward D. Radin (1948)

Crossfire by John Paxton (1948)

The Horizontal Man by Helen Eustis (1947)

The Killers by Anthony Veiller (1947)

Watchful at Night by Julius Fast (1946)

Murder, My Sweet (1946)

The House on 92nd Street by Charles G. Booth, Barre Lyndon, John Monks, Jr. (1946)