Lists of Bests: Mystery Writers of America's "Edgars Award: Best First Novel by an American Author" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/21180 Only American-born, first-time novelists are eligible for this award. Note: There was a tie in 1969. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:01:38 GMT en-us 0 50 65 50 0 Watchful at night http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2527925 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julius Fast</div> The Horizontal Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2480067 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Helen Eustis</div> The Fabulous Clipjoint http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/431246 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/431246"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1596541199.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fredric Brown</div> The Room Upstairs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2527936 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mildred Davis</div> What a Body http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2527945 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Green</div> Nightmare in Manhattan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1177817 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Walsh</div> Strangle Hold http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2527959 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary McMullen</div> Don't Cry for Me : A Mystery http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2527975 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Campbell Gault</div> A Kiss Before Dying http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45601 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45601"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786711647.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ira, Levin</div> Go, Lovely Rose http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2527979 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean Potts</div> The Perfectionist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2527985 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lane Kauffman</div> Rebecca's Pride http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2527987 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donald McNutt Douglass</div> Knock and Wait a While http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2527995 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Rawle Weeks</div> The Bright Road to Fear http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528000 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Martin Stern</div> The Grey Flannel Shroud (Black Dagger Crime Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528002 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Slesar</div> The Man in the Cage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1042745 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Vance</div> The Green Stone http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528019 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Suzanne Blanc</div> The Fugitive http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528027 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert L. Fish</div> Florentine Finish http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528032 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cornelius Hirschberg</div> Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (Rabbi Small Mystery) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81148 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81148"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743434870.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harry Kemelman</div> In the Heat of the Night (Mystery Scene Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528049 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528049"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0881848875.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056504382_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Ball</div> The Cold War Swap http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/548692 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/548692"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312315813.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ross Thomas</div> Act of Fear http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528054 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Collins</div> Silver Street http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528065 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. Richard Johnson</div> The Bait http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528078 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dorothy Uhnak</div> A Time of Predators (Otto Penzler Presents) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528087 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528087"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000H2ML80.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V62530075_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joe Gores</div> The Anderson Tapes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69281 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69281"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0425103641.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056442079_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lawrence Sanders</div> Finding Maubee http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528100 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. H. Z. Carr</div> Squaw Point http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528103 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by R. H Shimer</div> The Billion Dollar Sure Thing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2148104 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul E. Erdman</div> Fletch http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9205 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9205"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375713549.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gregory Mcdonald</div> The Alvarez Journal http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2255577 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rex Burns</div> The Thomas Berryman Number http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/214044 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/214044"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446600458.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Patterson</div> A French finish http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528121 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Ross</div> Killed in the Ratings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528132 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William L. Deandrea</div> The Lasko Tangent http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528133 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528133"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099550113.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard North Patterson</div> The Watcher http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528137 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by K. Nolte Smith</div> Chiefs: A Novel (25th Anniversary Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/430996 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/430996"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393014614.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stuart Woods</div> The Butcher's Boy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/603338 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/603338"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812967739.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Perry</div> The Bay Psalm Book Murder http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528142 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Will Harriss</div> Strike Three, You're Dead (Harvey Bliss Mysteries (Paperback)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528143 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528143"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802776086.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056492000_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Dean Rosen</div> When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8242 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8242"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345466608.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Kellerman</div> No One Rides for Free http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/158089 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Larry Beinhart</div> Death Among Strangers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528153 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Deidre S. Laiken</div> Carolina Skeletons http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528156 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Stout</div> The Last Billable Hour (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/709815 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/709815"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1933397098.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122916949_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Wolfe</div> Postmortem http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70186 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70186"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743477154.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patricia Cornwell</div> Slow Motion Riot http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/285798 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/285798"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380713063.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438733_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Blauner</div> The Black Echo http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13234 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13234"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446612731.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Connelly</div> A Grave Talent http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16055 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16055"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553573993.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45982519_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laurie R. King</div>