Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Mystery Novel

The Mystery Writers of America give these awards to honor the best in mystery fiction and nonfiction produced the previous year. The awards began in 1954 and are named in honor of Edgar Allan Poe.

2003 Novel: Winter and Night by S.J. Rozan
    First Novel: Blue Edge of Midnight by Jonathon King
    Paperback Original: Out of Sight by T.J. MacGregor
    Fact Crime: Son of a Grifter by Kent Walker
    Critical/Biographical: Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction by Mike Ashley
    Best Fact Crime: Fire Lover: A True Story by Joseph Wambaugh
    Best Young Adult: Trust Falls (Wessex Papers #1), Vol. 1 by Daniel Parker
    Best Juvenile: Harriet Spies Again by Helen Ericson

2002 Novel: Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker
    First Novel: Line of Vision by David Ellis
    Paperback Original: Adios Muchachos by Daniel Chavarria
    Fact Crime: Son of a Grifter by Kent Walker
    Critical/Biographical: Edgar Allan Poe A to Z by Dawn Sova
    Grand Master: Robert Parker

2001 Novel: The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
    First Novel: A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
    Paperback Original: The Black Maria: A Mystery of Philadelphia by Mark Graham
    Fact Crime: Black Mass: The Irish Mob, the FBI and a Devil's Deal by Dick Lehr & Gerard O'Neill
    Grand Master Award: Edward D. Hoch

2000 Novel: Bones by Jan Burke
    First Novel: The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison
    Paperback Original: Fulton County Blues by Ruth Birmingham
    Critical/Biographical Work: Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle by Daniel Stashower
    Fact Crime: Blind Eye by James B. Stewart
    Young Adult: Never Trust a Dead Man by Vivian Vande Velde
    Children's: The Night Flyers by Elizabeth McDavid Jones
    Grand Master Award: Mary Higgins Clark

1999 Novel: Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark
    First Novel: A Cold Day in Paradise by Steve Hamilton
    Paperback Original: The Widower's Two-Step by Rick Riordan
    Critical/Biographical Work: Mystery and Suspense Writers, edited by Robin W. Winks and Maureen Corrigan
    Fact Crime: To the Last Breath by Carlton Stowers
    Young Adult: The Killer's Cousin, by Nancy Werlin
    Children's: Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief by Wendelin Van Draanen--BookMuse features Sammy Keyes

1998 Novel: Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke
    First Novel: Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon
    Paperback Original: Charm City by Laura Lippman
    Critical/Biographical Work: 'G' Is for Grafton: The World of Kinsey Millhone by Natalie Hevener Kaufman and Carol McGinnis Kay
    Fact Crime: The Death of Innocents by Richard Firstman and Jamie
    Young Adult: Ghost Canoe by Will Hobbs --BookMuse features Far North
    Children's: Sparrows in the Scullery by Barbara Brooks Wallace
    Short Story: "Keller on the Spot" by Lawrence Block
    Grand Master Award: Barbara Mertz a.k.a Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels

1997: The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook
1996: Come to Grief by Dick Francis
1995: The Red Scream by Mary Willis Walker
1994: The Sculptress by Minette Walters
1993: Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron
1992: A Dance At The Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block
1991: New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith
1990: Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke
1989: A Cold Red Sunrise by Stuart M. Kaminsky
1988: Old Bones by Aaron Elkins
1987: A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
1986: The Suspect by L.R. Wright
1985: Briarpatch by Ross Thomas
1984: La Brava by Elmore Leonard
1983: Billingsgate Shoal by Rick Boyer
1982: Peregrine by William Bayer
1981: Whip Hand by Dick Francis
1980: The Rheingold Route by Arthur Maling
1979: The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
1978: Catch Me, Kill Me by William Hallahan
1977: Promised Land by Robert B. Parker
1976: Hopscotch by Brian Garfield
1975: Peter's Pence by Jon Cleary
1974: Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman
1973: The Lingala Code by Warren Kiefer
1972: The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
1971: The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
1970: Forfeit by Dick Francis
1969: A Case of Need by Jeffery Hudson
1968: God Save the Mark by Donald E. Westlake
1967: King of the Rainy Country by Nicolas Freeling
1966: The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall
1965: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre
1964: The Light of Day by Eric Ambler
1963: Death and the Joyful Woman by Ellis Peters
1962: Gideon's Fire by J.J. Marric
1961: Progress of a Crime by Julian Symons
1960: The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin
1959: The Eighth Circle by Stanley Ellin
1958: Room to Swing by Ed Lacy
1957: A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong
1956: Beast in View by Margaret Millar
1955: The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
1954: Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay