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Mystery Writers of America's "Edgars Award: Best First Novel by an American Author"

Only American-born, first-time novelists are eligible for this award.

Note: There was a tie in 1969.

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

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1.
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 Watchful at night
by Julius Fast
  
2.
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 The Horizontal Man
by Helen Eustis
  
3. The Fabulous Clipjoint
by Fredric Brown
  
4.
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 The Room Upstairs
by Mildred Davis
  
5.
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 What a Body
by Alan Green
  
6.
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 Nightmare in Manhattan
by Thomas Walsh
  
7.
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 Strangle Hold
by Mary McMullen
  
8.
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 Don't Cry for Me : A Mystery
by William Campbell Gault
  
9. A Kiss Before Dying
by Ira, Levin
  
10.
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 Go, Lovely Rose
by Jean Potts
  
11.
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 The Perfectionist
by Lane Kauffman
  
12.
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 Rebecca's Pride
by Donald McNutt Douglass
  
13.
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 Knock and Wait a While
by William Rawle Weeks
  
14.
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 The Bright Road to Fear
by Richard Martin Stern
  
15.
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 The Grey Flannel Shroud (Black Dagger Crime Series)
by Henry Slesar
  
16.
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 The Man in the Cage
by Jack Vance
  
17.
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 The Green Stone
by Suzanne Blanc
  
18.
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 The Fugitive
by Robert L. Fish
  
19.
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 Florentine Finish
by Cornelius Hirschberg
  
20. Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (Rabbi Small Mystery)
by Harry Kemelman
  
21. In the Heat of the Night (Mystery Scene Books)
by John Ball
  
22. The Cold War Swap
by Ross Thomas
  
23.
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 Act of Fear
by Michael Collins
  
24.
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 Silver Street
by E. Richard Johnson
  
25.
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 The Bait
by Dorothy Uhnak
  
26. A Time of Predators (Otto Penzler Presents)
by Joe Gores
  
27. The Anderson Tapes
by Lawrence Sanders
  
28.
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 Finding Maubee
by A. H. Z. Carr
  
29.
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 Squaw Point
by R. H Shimer
  
30.
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 The Billion Dollar Sure Thing
by Paul E. Erdman
  
31. Fletch
by Gregory Mcdonald
  
32.
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 The Alvarez Journal
by Rex Burns
  
33. The Thomas Berryman Number
by James Patterson
  
34.
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 A French finish
by Robert Ross
  
35.
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 Killed in the Ratings
by William L. Deandrea
  
36. The Lasko Tangent
by Richard North Patterson
  
37.
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 The Watcher
by K. Nolte Smith
  
38. Chiefs: A Novel (25th Anniversary Edition)
by Stuart Woods
  
39. The Butcher's Boy
by Thomas Perry
  
40.
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 The Bay Psalm Book Murder
by Will Harriss
  
41. Strike Three, You're Dead (Harvey Bliss Mysteries (Paperback))
by Richard Dean Rosen
  
42. When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware)
by Jonathan Kellerman
  
43.
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 No One Rides for Free
by Larry Beinhart
  
44.
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 Death Among Strangers
by Deidre S. Laiken
  
45.
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 Carolina Skeletons
by David Stout
  
46. The Last Billable Hour (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries)
by Susan Wolfe
  
47. Postmortem
by Patricia Cornwell
  
48. Slow Motion Riot
by Peter Blauner
  
49. The Black Echo
by Michael Connelly
  
50. A Grave Talent
by Laurie R. King
  
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