Edgar Allan Poe Award Winners
The Edgar Awards are presented annually by the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) at its awards banquet. The "Edgars" are named after MWA's patron saint Edgar Allan Poe and are awarded to authors of distinguished work in various categories of the genre.2001
Best Novel: The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
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Best First Novel: A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
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Best Paperback Original: The Black Maria by Mark Graham
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2000
Best Novel: Bones by Jan Burke
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Best First Novel: The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison
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Best Paperback Original: Fulton County Blues by Ruth Birmingham
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1999
Best Novel: Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark
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Best First Novel: A Cold Day in Paradise by Steve Hamilton
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Best Paperback Original: The Widower's Two-Step by Rick Riordan
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1998
Best Novel: Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke
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Best First Novel: Los Alamos by Joseph Kenon
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Best Paperback Original: Charm City by Laura Lippman
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1997 The Chatham School Affair, by Thomas A. Cook
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1996 Come To Grief, by Dick Francis
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1995 The Red Scream, by Mary Willis Walker
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1994 Sculptress, by Minette Walters
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1993 Bootlegger’s Daughter, by Margaret Maron
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1992 A Dance At The Slaughterhouse, by Lawrence Block
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1991 New Orleans Mourning, by Julie Smith
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1990 Black Cherry Blues, by James Lee Burke
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1989 A Cold Red Sunrise, by Stuart M. Kaminsky
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1988 Old Bones, by Aaron Elkins
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1987 A Dark-Adapted Eye, by Barbara Vine
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1986 The Suspect, by L.R. Wright
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1985 Briarpatch, by Ross Thomas
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1984 LaBrava, by Elmore Leonard
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1983 Billingsgate Shoal, by Rick Boyer
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1982 Peregrine, by William Bayer
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1981 Whip Hand, by Dick Francis
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1980 The Rheingold Route, by Arthur Maling
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1979 The Eye of the Needle, by Ken Follett
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1978 Catch Me: Kill Me, by William Hallahan
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1977 Promised Land, by Robert Parker
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1976 Hopscotch, by Brian Garfield
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1975 Peter’s Pence, by Jon Cleary
1974 Dance Hall of the Dead, by Tony Hillerman
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1973 The Lingala Code, by Warren Kiefer
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1972 The Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth
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1971 The Laughing Policeman, by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
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1970 Forfeit, by Dick Francis
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1969 A Case of Need, by Jeffery Hudson
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1968 God Save the Mark, by Donald E. Westlake
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1967 King of the Rainy Country, by Nicolas Freeling
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1966 The Quiller Memorandum, by Adam Hall
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1965 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, by John Le Carre
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1964 The Light of Day, by Eric Ambler
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1963 Death and the Joyful Woman, by Ellis Peters
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1962 Gideon’s Fire, by J.J. Marric
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1961 Progress of a Crime, by Julian Symons
1960 The Hours Before Dawn, by Celia Fremlin
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1959 The Eighth Circle, by Stanley Ellin
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1958 Room to Swing, by Ed Lacy
1957 A Dram of Poison, by Charlotte Armstrong
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1956 Beast in View, by Margaret Millar
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1955 The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler
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1954 Beat Not the Bones, by Charlotte Jay
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