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Winners 1960 - 1969
| 1959 | Best Novel | The Eighth Circle | Stanley Ellin |
| Best First Novel | The Bright Road to Fear | Richard Martin Stern | |
| Best Fact Crime | They Died in the Chair | Wenzell Brown | |
| Best Short Story | Over There, Darkness | William O'Farrell | |
| Best Screenplay | The Defiant Ones | ||
| Grand Master | Rex Stout | ||
| 1958 | Best Novel | Room to Swing | Ed Lacy |
| Best First Novel | Knock and Wait a While | William Rawle Weeks | |
| Best Fact Crime | The D.A.'s Man | Harold R. Dansforth, James D. Horan | |
| Best Short Story | The Secret of the Bottle | Gerald Kersh | |
| Best Screenplay | Twelve Angry Men | ||
| Grand Master | Vincent Starrett | ||
| 1957 | Best Novel | A Dram of Poison | Charlotte Armstrong |
| Best First Novel | Rebecca's Pride | Donald McNutt Douglass | |
| Best Fact Crime | Night Fell on Georgia | Charles Samuels, Louise Samuels | |
| Best Short Story | The Blessington Method | Stanley Ellin | |
| 1956 | Best Novel | Beast in View | Margaret Millar |
| Best First Novel | The Perfectionist | Lane Kauffman | |
| Best Fact Crime | Dead and Gone | Manly Wade Wellman | |
| Best Short Story | Dream No More | Philip MacDonald | |
| Best Screenplay | The Desperate Hours | ||
| 1955 | Best Novel | The Long Goodbye | Raymond Chandler |
| Best First Novel | Go, Lovely Rose | Jean Potts | |
| Best Fact Crime | The Girl With The Scarlet Brand | Charles Boswell, Lewis Thompson | |
| Best Short Story | The House Party | Stanley Ellin | |
| Best Screenplay | Rear Window | ||
| Grand Master | Agatha Christie | ||
| 1954 | Best Novel | Beat Not the Bones | Charlotte Jay |
| Best First Novel | A Kiss Before Dying | Ira Levin | |
| Best Fact Crime | Why Did They Kill? | John Bartlow Martin | |
| Best Short Story | Someone Like You | Roald Dahl | |
| Best Screenplay | The Big Heat | ||
| 1953 | Best Novel | Don't Cry For Me | William Campbell Gault |
| Best Fact Crime | Court of Last Resort | Erle Stanley Gardner | |
| Best Short Story | Something to Hide | Philip MacDonald | |
| Best Screenplay | Five Fingers | ||
| 1952 | Best First Novel | Strangle Hold | Mary McMullen |
| Best Fact Crime | True Tales from the Annals of Crime | St. Clair McKelway | |
| Best Short Story | Fancies and Goodnights | John Collier | |
| Best Screenplay | Detective Story | ||
| 1951 | Best First Novel | Nightmare in Manhattan | Thomas Walsh |
| Best Fact Crime | Twelve Against Crime | Edward D. Radin | |
| Best Short Story | Diagnosis: Homicide | Lawrence G. Blochman | |
| Best Screenplay | Mr. 880 | ||
| 1950 | Best First Novel | What a Body | Alan Green |
| Best Fact Crime | Bad Company | Joseph Henry Jackson | |
| Best Screenplay | The Window | ||
| 1949 | Best First Novel | The Room Upstairs | Mildred Davis |
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| Best Screenplay | Call Northside 777 | ||
| 1948 | Best First Novel | The Fabulous Clipjoint | Fredric Brown |
| Best Fact Crime | Twelve Against the Law | Edward D. Radin | |
| Best Screenplay | Crossfire | ||
| 1947 | Best First Novel | The Horizontal Man | Helen Eustis |
| Best Screenplay | The Killers | ||
| 1946 | Best First Novel | Watchful at Night | Julius Fast |
| Best Screenplay | Murder, My Sweet (tie with) The House on 92nd Street | ||
