Edgar Allen Poe Awards
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Winners 2000 - Present
Winners 1990 - 1999
Winners 1980 - 1989
Winners 1960 - 1969
Winners 1946 - 1959
1979 |
Best Novel | The Eye of the Needle | Ken Follett |
| Best First Novel | Killed in the Ratings | William L. deAndrea | |
| Best Paperback Original | Deceit and Deadly Lies | Frank Bandy | |
| Best Critical/Biography | The Mystery of Agatha Christie | Gwen Robins | |
| Best Fact Crime | Til Death Do Us Part | Vincent Bugliosi, Ken Hurwitz | |
| Best Short Story | The Cloud Beneath the Eaves | Barbara Owens | |
| Best Juvenile | Alone in Wolf Hollow | Dana Brookins | |
| Best Screenplay | Magic | ||
| Grand Master | Aaron Marc Stein | ||
1978 |
Best Novel | Catch Me: Kill Me | William H. Hallahan |
| Best First Novel | A French Finish | Robert Ross | |
| Best Paperback Original | The Quark Maneuver | Mike Jahn | |
| Best Critical/Biography | Rex Stout | John McAleer | |
| Best Fact Crime | By Persons Unknown | Barbara Amiel, George Jonas | |
| Best Short Story | Chance After Chance | Thomas Walsh | |
| Best Juvenile | A Really Weird Summer | Eloise Jarvis McGraw | |
| Best Screenplay | The Late Show | ||
| Grand Master | Daphne du Marier, Dorothy B. Hughes, and Ngaio Marsh | ||
1977 |
Best Novel | Promised Land | Robert B. Parker |
| Best First Novel | The Thomas Berryman Number | James Patterson | |
| Best Paperback Original | Confess, Fletch | Gregory McDonald | |
| Best Critical/Biography | Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection | Marvin Lachman, Otto Penzler | |
| Best Fact Crime | Blood and Money | Thomas Thompson | |
| Best Short Story | Like a Terrible Scream | Etta Revesz | |
| Best Juvenile | Are You In the House Alone? | Richard Peck | |
| Best Screenplay | Family Plot | ||
1976 |
Best Novel | Hopscotch | Brian Garfield |
| Best First Novel | The Alvarez Journal | Rex Burns | |
| Best Paperback Original | Autopsy | John R. Feegal | |
| Best Fact Crime | A Time to Die | Tom Wicker | |
| Best Short Story | The Jail | Jesse Ford Hill | |
| Best Juvenile | Z is for Zachariah | Robert C. O'Brien | |
| Best Screenplay | Three Days of the Condor | ||
| Grand Master | Graham Greene | ||
1975 |
Best Novel | Peter's Pence | Jon Cleary |
| Best First Novel | Fletch | Gregory McDonald | |
| Best Paperback Original | The Corpse that Walked | Roy Winsor | |
| Best Fact Crime | Helter Skelter | Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry | |
| Best Short Story | The Fallen Curtain | Ruth Rendell | |
| Best Juvenile | The Dangling Witness | Jay Bennett | |
| Best Screenplay | Chinatown | ||
| Grand Master | Eric Ambler | ||
1974 |
Best Novel | Dance Hall of the Dead | Tony Hillerman |
| Best First Novel | The Billion Dollar Sure Thing | Paul Erdman | |
| Best Paperback Original | Death of an Informer | Will Perry | |
| Best Fact Crime | Legacy of Death | Barbara Levy | |
| Best Short Story | The Whimper of Whipped Dogs | Harlan Ellison | |
| Best Juvenile | The Long Black Coat | Jay Bennett | |
| Best Screenplay | The Last of Sheila | ||
| Grand Master | Ross McDonald | ||
1973 |
Best Novel | The Lingala Code | Warren Kiefer |
| Best First Novel | Squaw Point | R.H. Shimer | |
| Best Paperback Original | The Invader | Richard Wormser | |
| Best Fact Crime | Hoax | Lewis Chester, Stephen Fay, Magnus Linkletter | |
| Best Short Story | The Purple Shroud | Joyce Harrington | |
| Best Juvenile | Deathwatch | Robb White | |
| Best Screenplay | Sleuth | ||
| Grand Master | Alfred Hitchcock, Judson Philips | ||
1972 |
Best Novel | The Day of the Jackal | Frederik Forsyth |
| Best First Novel | Finding Maubee | A.H.Z. Carr | |
| Best Paperback Original | For Murder I Charge More | Frank McAuliffe | |
| Best Fact Crime | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Sandor Frankel | |
| Best Short Story | Moonlight Gardener | Robert L. Fish | |
| Best Juvenile | Nightfall | Joan Aiken | |
| Best Screenplay | The French Connection | ||
| Grand Master | John D. MacDonald | ||
1971 |
Best Novel | The Laughing Policeman | Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo |
| Best First Novel | The Anderson Tapes | Lawrence Sanders | |
| Best Paperback Original | Flashpoint | Dan J. Marlowe | |
| Best Fact Crime | A Great Fall | Mildred Savage | |
| Best Short Story | In the Forests of Riga the Beasts… | Margaret Finn Brown | |
| Best Juvenile | The Intruder | John Rowe Townsend | |
| Best Screenplay | Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion | ||
| Grand Master | Mignon C. Eberhart | ||
1970 |
Best Novel | Forfeit | Dick Francis |
| Best First Novel | A Time for Predators | Joe Gores | |
| Best Paperback Original | The Dragon's Eye | Scott C.S. Stone | |
| Best Fact Crime | The Case That Will Not Die | Herbert B. Ehrmann | |
| Best Short Story | Goodbye, Pops | Joe Gores | |
| Best Juvenile | Danger at Black Dyke | Winfred Finlay | |
| Best Screenplay | Z | ||
| Grand Master | James M. Cain |
