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winners of the Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Edgars) given by the Mystery Writers of America to recognize an author for outstanding contributions in mystery, crime and suspense writing.




1953 Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay
1954 The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler - M CHAN, TC LIT 363
1955 Beast in View by Margaret Millar
1956 A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong - M ARMS
1957 Room to Swing by Ed Lacy
1958 The Eighth Circle by Stanley Ellin - M ELLI
1959 The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin - M FREM
1960 Progress of a Crime by Julian Symons - M SYMO
1961 Gideon's Fire by J. J. Marric - M MARR
1962 Death and the Joyful Woman by Ellis Peters - M PETE
1963 The Light of Day by Eric Ambler - F AMBL
1964 The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John Le Carre - F LECA
1965 The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall - M HALL
1966 King of the Rainy Country by Nicolas Freeling - M FREE
1967 God Save the Mark by Donald E. Westlake - F WEST
1968 A Case of Need by Michael Crichton writing as Jeffery Hudson - F CRIC
1969 Forfeit by Dick Francis - M FRAN, LARGE TYPE M FRAN
1970 The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo - M SJOW
1971 The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth - F FORS
1972 The Lingala Code by Warren Kiefer - M KIEF
1973 Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman - M HILL, LARGE TYPE M HILL, TC LIT 266
1974 Peter's Pence by Jon Cleary - M CLEA
1975 Hopscotch by Brian Garfield - F GARF
1976 Promised Land by Robert Parker - M PARK, LARGE TYPE M PARK
1977 Catch Me: Kill Me by William Hallahan - F HALL
1978 The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett - F FOLL, LARGE TYPE F FOLL
1979 The Rheingold Route by Arthur Maling - M MALI
1980 Whip Hand by Dick Francis - YA M FRAN
1981 Peregrine by William Bayer
1982 Billingsgate Shoal by Rick Boyer - M BOYE
1983 LaBrava by Elmore Leonard - M LEON, LARGE PRINT M LEON
1984 Briarpatch by Ross Thomas - M THOM
1985 The Suspect by L. R. Wright - M WRIG
1986 A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine - M VINE, LARGE TYPE M VINE
1987 Old Bones by Aaron Elkins - M ELKI
1988 A Cold Red Sunrise by Stuart M. Kaminsky - M KAMI
1989 Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke - M BURK
1991 New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith - M SMIT
1993 Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron - M MARO
1994 Sculptress by Minette Walters - M WALT
1995 The Red Scream by Mary Willis Walker - M WALK
1996 Come to Grief by Dick Francis - M FRAN, LARGE TYPE M FRAN, LARGE TYPE M FRAN
1997 The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook - M COOK
1998 Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke - F BURK, TC F BURK
1999 Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark - F CLAR
2000 Bones by Jan Burke - M BURK

Grand Master Awards

1954 Agatha Christie
1957 Vincent Starrett
1958 Rex Stout
1960 Ellery Queen
1961 Erle Stanley Gardner
1962 John Dickson Carr
1963 George Harmon Coxe
1965 Georges Simenon
1966 Baynard Kendrick
1968 John Creasey
1969 James M. Cain
1970 Mignon G. Eberhart
1971 John D. MacDonald
1972 Judson Philips
1973 Ross Macdonald
1975 Eric Ambler
1976 Graham Greene
1977 Daphne du Maurier
Dorothy B. Hughes
Ngaio Marsh
1978 Aaron Marc Stein
1979 W. R. Burnett
1980 Stanley Ellin
1981 Julian Symons
1982 Margaret Millar
1983 John LeCarre
1984 Dorothy Salisbury Davis
1985 Ed McBain (Evan Hunter)
1986 Michael Gilbert
1987 Phyllis A. Whitney
1988 Hillary Waugh
1989 Helen McCloy
1991 Tony Hillerman
1993 Donald E. Westlake
1994 Lawrence Block
1998 Barbara Mertz (aka Elizabeth Peters & Barbara Michaels)
1999 P. D. James
2000 Mary Higgins Clark