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Mystery Writers of America's "Edgar Award: Best Fact Crime"

Best true crime non-fiction in hardcover or paperback.

Note: There was no award given in 1949.

(found at: http://www.theedgars.com/edgarsDB/index.php)

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 Twelve Against the Law
by Edward D. Radin
  
2. Bad Company: The Story of California's Legendary and Actual Stage-Robbers, Bandits, Highwaymen, and Outlaws from the Fifties to the Eighties
by Joseph Henry Jackson
  
3.
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 Twelve Against Crime
by Edward D. Radin
  
4.
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 True Tales from the Annals of Crime & Rascality
by St. Clair McKelway
  
5.
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 The Court Of Last Resort (New, Enlarged And Revised Edition)
by Erle Stanley Gardner
  
6.
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 Why did they kill?
by John Bartlow Martin
  
7.
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 The Girl with the Scarlet Brand
by Charles Boswell
  
8. Dead and Gone
by Manly Wade Wellman
  
9.
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 Night Fell on Georgia
by Charles Samuels, Louise Samuels
  
10.
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 The D.A.'s Man (The Never Before Told Story of Investigator Dan Danforth and the New York District Attorney's Office Under Thomas E. Dewey and Frank S. Hogan)
by Harold E. Danforth and James D. Horan
  
11.
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 They Died in the Chair
by Wenzell Brown
  
12.
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 Fire at Sea
by Thomas Gallager
  
13.
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 The Overbury Affair
by Miriam Allen deFord
  
14.
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 Death and the Supreme Court (A harvest book)
by E. Barrett Prettyman
  
15.
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 Tragedy in Dedham
by Francis Russell
  
16.
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 The Deed
by Gerold Frank
  
17. Gideon's Trumpet
by Anthony Lewis
  
18. In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
  
19.
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 The Boston Strangler
by Gerold Frank
  
20.
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 A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden by Daylight
by Victoria Lincoln
  
21.
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 Poe the Detective: The Curious Circumstances Behind the Mystery of Marie Roget.
by John Evangelist, Walsh
  
22.
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 The Case That Will Not Die: Commonwealth Vs. Sacco and Vanzetti
by Herbert Brutus Ehrmann
  
23.
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 A Great Fall
by Mildred Savage
  
24.
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 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
by Sandor Frankel
  
25.
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 Hoax: The Inside Story of the Howard Hughes-Clifford Irving Affair
by Stephen Fay
  
26.
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 Legacy of Death The Remarkable Saga of the Sanson Family, Who Served as Executioners of France for Seven Generations
by Barbara Levy
  
27. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
by Vincent Bugliosi
  
28.
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 A Time To Die
by Tom Wicker
  
29. Blood and Money
by Thomas Thompson
  
30.
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 By Persons Unknown: The Strange Death Of Christine Demter
by Barbara Amiel, George Jonas
  
31.
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 Til Death Us Do Part
by Vincent Bugliosi
  
32. The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage
by Robert Lindsey
  
33.
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 A True Deliverance,The Joan Little Case
by Fred Harwell
  
34.
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 The Sting Man
by Robert W. Greene
  
35.
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 The Vatican Connection
by Richard Hammer
  
36. Very Much a Lady: The Untold Story of Jean Harris and Dr. Herman Tarnower
by Shana Alexander
  
37.
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 Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings
by Mike Weiss
  
38.
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 Savage Grace
by Stephen M.L. Aronson, Natalie Robins
  
39. Careless Whispers (St. Martin's True Crime Library)
by Carlton Stowers
  
40.
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 The CBS Murders
by Richard Hammer
  
41. In Broad Daylight
by Harry N. MacLean
  
42.
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 Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell
by Jack Olsen
  
43.
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 In a Child's Name: The Legacy of a Mother's Murder
by Peter Maas
  
44. Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
by David Simon
  
45. Swift Justice: Murder & Vengeance In A California Town
by Harry Farrell
  
46.
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 Until The Twelfth Of Never, the Deadly Divorce of Dan & Betty Broderick
by Bella Stumbo
  
47. To Protect and to Serve: The LAPD's Century of War in the City of Dreams
by Joe Domanick
  
48. Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, And Justice In A Southern Town
by Pete Earley
  
49. Power to Hurt: Inside a Judge's Chambers : Sexual Assault, Corruption, and the Ultimate Reversal of Justice for Women
by Darcy O'Brien
  
50. The Death of Innocents: A True Story of Murder, Medicine, and High-Stake Science
by Richard Firstman
  
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