Living Canon

Edgar Awards

The Edgar Awards, presented by the Mystery Writers of America since 1946, honor the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction, and media. Named after Edgar Allan Poe, they are the most prestigious awards in the mystery genre.

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  Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to his Tell-Tale Stories by Dr.Harry Lee Poe

  2009EdgarCritical/Bio
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  Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters by Jon Lellenberg,Daniel Stashower, and Charles Foley

  2008EdgarCritical/Bio
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  The Killer's Cousin by Nancy Werlin

  1999EdgarYoung Adult
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  Ghost Canoe by Will Hobbs

  1998EdgarYoung Adult
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  Twisted Summer by Willo Davis Roberts

  1997EdgarYoung Adult
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  Prophecy Rock by Rob MacGregor

  1996EdgarYoung Adult
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  Toughing It by Nancy Springer

  1995EdgarYoung Adult
• The Name of the Game Was Murder by Joan Lowery Nixon

  1994EdgarYoung Adult
• A Little Bit Dead by Chap Reaver

  1993EdgarYoung Adult
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  The Weirdo by Theodore Taylor

  1992EdgarYoung Adult
• Mote by Chap Reaver

  1991EdgarYoung Adult
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  Show Me the Evidence by Alane Ferguson

  1990EdgarYoung Adult
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  Incident at Loring Groves by Sonia Levitin

  1989EdgarYoung Adult
• Deceit and Deadly Lies by Frank Bandy

  1979EdgarPaperback
• The Quark Maneuver by Mike Jahn

  1978EdgarPaperback
• Confess, Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald

  1977EdgarPaperback
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  Autopsy by John R. Feegel

  1976EdgarPaperback
• The Corpse That Walked by Roy Winsor

  1975EdgarPaperback
• Death of an Informer by Will Perry

  1974EdgarPaperback
• The Invader by Richard Wormser

  1973EdgarPaperback
• For Murder I Charge More by Frank McAuliffe

  1972EdgarPaperback
• Flashpoint by Dan J. Marlowe

  1971EdgarPaperback
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  The Dragon's Eye by Scott C. S. Stone

  1970EdgarPaperback
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  The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton

  1969EdgarJuvenile
• Signpost to Terror by Gretchen Sprague

  1968EdgarJuvenile
• Sinbad and Me by Kin Platt

  1967EdgarJuvenile
• The Mystery of 22 East by Leon Ware

  1966EdgarJuvenile
• Mystery at Crane's Landing by Marcella Thum

  1965EdgarJuvenile
• Mystery of the Hidden Hand by Phyllis A. Whitney

  1964EdgarJuvenile
• Cutlass Island by Scott Corbett

  1963EdgarJuvenile
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  The Phantom of Walkaway Hill by Edward Fenton

  1962EdgarJuvenile
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  The Mystery of the Haunted Pool by Phyllis A. Whitney

  1961EdgarJuvenile
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  The Eighth Circle by Stanley Ellin

  1959EdgarNovel
• Room to Swing by Ed Lacy

  1958EdgarNovel
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  A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong

  1957EdgarNovel
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  Beast in View by Margaret Millar

  1956EdgarNovel
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  The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

  1955EdgarNovel
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  Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay

  1954EdgarNovel
• The Room Upstairs by Mildred B. Davis

  1949EdgarFirst Novel
• Regional Murder by Marie Rodell(editor)

  1949EdgarFact Crime
• Twelve Against the Law by Edward D. Radin

  1948EdgarFact Crime
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  The Fabulous Clipjoint by Fredric Brown

  1948EdgarFirst Novel
• The Horizontal Man by Helen Eustis

  1947EdgarFirst Novel
• Watchful at Night by Julius Fast

  1946EdgarFirst Novel

• Best Critical/Biographical Work
• Best Fact Crime
• Best First Novel
• Best Juvenile
• Best Novel
• Best Paperback Original
• Best Young Adult

See also

• Arthur C. Clarke Award
• Booker Prize
• Caldecott Medal
• Carnegie Medal
• Costa Book Awards
• Giller Prize
• Hugo Awards
• International Booker Prize
• Kirkus Prize
• Lambda Literary Awards
• Locus Awards
• National Book Award
• National Book Critics Circle Award
• Nebula Awards
• Newbery Medal
• Nobel Prize in Literature
• PEN/Faulkner Award
• PEN/Hemingway Award
• Pulitzer Prizes
• Women’s Prize for Fiction
• World Fantasy Awards