Mystery Writers of America's "Edgar Award: Best Novel"

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Every April, the Mystery Writers of America bestows the coveted Edgar Allan Poe Awards for achievement in the mystery field. Edgar Allan Poe has long been acknowledged as the "Father of the Detective Story," so it was natural that MWA would choose to name their awards after him.

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  1. 1954
    Beat Not the Bones
    by Charlotte Jay

  2. 1955
    The Long Goodbye
    by Raymond Chandler

  3. 1956
    Beast in View
    by Margaret Millar

  4. 1957
    A Dram of Poison
    by Charlotte Armstrong

  5. 1958
    Room To Swing
    by Ed Lacy

  6. 1959
    The Eighth Circle
    by Stanley Ellin

  7. 1960
    Hours Before Dawn (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Celia Fremlin

  8. 1961
    The Progress of a Crime
    by Julian Symons

  9. 1962
    ?
    Gideons Fire
    by J.J. Marric

  10. 1963
    Death and the Joyful Woman
    by Ellis Peters

  11. 1964
    The Light of Day
    by Eric Ambler

  12. 1965
    The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
    by John le Carre

  13. 1966
    The Quiller Memorandum (Otto Penzler Presents...)
    by Adam Hall

  14. 1967
    The King of the Rainy Country
    by Nicolas Freeling

  15. 1968
    God Save the Mark: A Novel of Crime and Confusion
    by Donald E. Westlake

  16. 1969
    A Case of Need
    by Michael Crichton

  17. 1970
    Forfeit
    by Dick Francis

  18. 1971
    The Laughing Policeman
    by Maj Sjöwall

  19. 1972
    The Day of the Jackal
    by Frederick Forsyth

  20. 1973
    ?
    The Lingala Code
    by Warren Kiefer

  21. 1974
    Dance Hall of the Dead
    by Tony Hillerman

  22. 1975
    ?
    Peter's Pence
    by Jon Cleary

  23. 1976
    Hopscotch (Otto Penzler Presents...)
    by Brian Garfield

  24. 1977
    Promised Land (A Spenser Novel)
    by Robert B. Parker

  25. 1978
    Catch Me: Kill Me
    by William H. Hallahan

  26. 1979
    Eye of the Needle
    by Ken Follett

  27. 1980
    ?
    The Rheingold Route
    by Arthur Maling

  28. 1981
    Whip Hand
    by Dick Francis

  29. 1982
    Peregrine (Otto Penzler Presents--)
    by William Bayer

  30. 1983
    Billingsgate Shoal
    by Rick Boyer

  31. 1984
    LaBrava
    by Elmore Leonard

  32. 1985
    Briarpatch
    by Ross Thomas

  33. 1986
    ?
    The suspect
    by Laurali Wright

  34. 1987
    A Dark-Adapted Eye (Plume)
    by Ruth Rendell

  35. 1988
    Old Bones: A Gideon Oliver Mystery
    by Aaron Elkins

  36. 1989
    A Cold Red Sunrise (An Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov Mystery)
    by Stuart M. Kaminsky

  37. 1990
    Black Cherry Blues: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
    by James Lee Burke

  38. 1991
    New Orleans Mourning (Skip Langdon Novels)
    by Julie Smith

  39. 1993
    Bootlegger's Daughter (Deborah Knott Mysteries, No. 1)
    by Margaret Maron

  40. 1994
    The Sculptress: A Novel
    by Minette Walters

  41. 1995
    The Red Scream
    by Mary Willis Walker

  42. 1996
    Come to Grief
    by Dick Francis

  43. 1997
    The Chatham School Affair
    by Thomas H. Cook

  44. 1998
    Cimarron Rose (Billy Bob Holland)
    by James Lee Burke

  45. 1999
    Mr. White's Confession: A Novel
    by Robert Clark

  46. 2000
    Bones
    by Jan Burke

  47. 2001
    The Bottoms
    by Joe R. Lansdale

  48. 2002
    Silent Joe
    by T. Jefferson Parker

  49. 2003
    Winter and Night
    by S. J. Rozan

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Comments

2011 winner — 2 years ago

added 2011 winner: The Lock Artist, by Steve Hamilton


2010 winner — 2 years ago

added 2010 winner The Last Child by John Hart


bah

2007 — 6 years ago

Added the 2007 winner.


God Save the Mark — 6 years ago

Is by Donald Westlake.




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