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Crime Writers' Association's "Gold Dagger Award"

Initially titled the Crossed Red Herrings Award, this award was first presented in 1955. It was renamed the Gold Dagger in 1960. Between 1995 and 2002, the award was sponsored by Macallan, (a whisky distillery) and named The Macallan Gold Dagger.

This award was renamed the Duncan Lawrie Dagger in 2006. Non-English books were split off into a separate category, the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger.

The Silver Dagger Award list is here: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/23333.

(found at: http://www.thecwa.co.uk/daggers/index.html#gold)

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1.
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 The Little Walls
by Winston Graham
  
2.
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 The Second Man
by Edward Grierson
  
3. The Colour of Murder
by Julian Symons
  
4.
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 Someone from the Past
by Margot Bennett
  
5. Passage of Arms
by Eric Ambler
  
6. The Night of Wenceslas
by Lionel Davidson
  
7.
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 The Spoilt Kill
by Mary Kelly
  
8.
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 When I Grow Rich
by Joan Fleming
  
9. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold  
10. The Perfect Murder (Inspector Ghote Mystery)
by H. R. F. Keating
  
11. The Far Side of the Dollar (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by Ross Macdonald
  
12. Long Way to Shiloh
by Lionel Davidson
  
13. Murder Against the Grain: A John Putnam Thatcher Mystery
by Emma Lathen
  
14.
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 The Glass-Sided Ants' Nest
by Peter Dickinson
  
15.
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 A Pride of Heroes
by Peter Dickinson
  
16.
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 Young Man, I Think You're Dying
by Joan Fleming
  
17.
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 The Steam Pig (Crime Club)
by James McCLure
  
18. Levanter
by Eric Ambler
  
19. The Defection of A. J. Lewinter: A Novel of Duplicity
by Robert Littell
  
20. Other Paths to Glory (Crime Masterworks)
by Anthony Price
  
21. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. (Norton Paperback)
by Nicholas Meyer
  
22.
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 A Demon in My View
by Ruth Rendell
  
23. The Honourable Schoolboy
by John le Carre
  
24.
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 The Chelsea Murders
by Lionel Davidson
  
25. Whip Hand
by Dick Francis
  
26.
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 The Murder of the Maharajah
by H. R. F. Keating
  
27. Gorky Park
by Martin Cruz Smith
  
28. The False Inspector Dew
by Peter Lovesey
  
29.
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 Accidental Crimes
by John Hutton
  
30.
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 The Twelfth Juror
by BM Gill
  
31.
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 Monkey Puzzle
by Gosling
  
32. Live Flesh
by Ruth Rendell
  
33. A Fatal Inversion
by Barbara Vine
  
34. Ratking
by Michael Dibdin
  
35. The Wench Is Dead
by Colin Dexter
  
36. Bones and Silence (Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries (Paperback))
by Reginald Hill
  
37. King Solomon's Carpet
by Barbara Vine
  
38. The Way Through the Woods (Inspector Morse)
by Colin Dexter
  
39. Cruel and Unusual: A Kay Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries)
by Patricia Cornwell
  
40. The Scold's Bridle
by Minette Walters
  
41. The Mermaids Singing (A Dr. Tony Hill & Carol Jordan Mystery)
by Val McDermid
  
42. Popcorn
by Ben Elton
  
43. Black and Blue (Inspector Rebus)
by Ian Rankin
  
44. Sunset Limited
by James Lee Burke
  
45. A Small Death in Lisbon
by Robert Wilson
  
46. Motherless Brooklyn
by Jonathan Lethem
  
47. Sidetracked
by Henning Mankell
  
48. The Athenian Murders
by Jose Carlos Somoza
  
49. Fox Evil
by Minette Walters
  
50. Blacklist: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
by Sara Paretsky
  
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Created by The Subjected Reader on Jan 08, 2007.