2008 Down River by John Hart
The Edgar Awards
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The Mystery Writers of America give these awards to honor the best in mystery
fiction and nonfiction produced in the previous year. The awards began in 1954 and are named in honor of Edgar Allan Poe.
2007 The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
2006 Citizen Vince by Jess Walter
2005 California
Girl by T. Jefferson Parker
2004 Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin
2003 Winter and Night by S.J. Rozan
2002 Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker
2001 The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
2000 Bones by Jan Burke
1999 Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark
1998 Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke
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1997
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The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook | |
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1996
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Come To Grief by Dick Francis | |
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1995
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The Red Scream by Mary Willis Walker | |
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1994
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The Sculptress by Minette Walkers | |
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1993
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Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron | |
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1992
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A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block | |
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1991
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New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith | |
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1990
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Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke | |
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1989
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A Cold Red Sunrise by Stuart M. Kaminsky | |
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1988
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Old Bones by Aaron Elkins | |
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1987
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A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine | |
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1986
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The Suspect by L.R. Wright | |
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1985
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Briarpatch by Ross Thomas | |
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1984
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LaBrava by Elmore Leonard | |
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1983
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Billingsgate Shoal by Rick Boyer (This title is no longer available.) | |
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1982
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Peregrine by William Bayer | |
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1981
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Whip Hand by Dick Francis | |
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1980
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The Rheingold Route by Arthur Maling | |
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1979
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Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett | |
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1978
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Catch Me, Kill Me by William Hallahan | |
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1977
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Promised Land by Robert B. Parker | |
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1976
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Hopscotch by Brian Garfield | |
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1975
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Peter's Pence by Jon Cleary | |
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1974
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Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman | |
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1973
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The Lingala Code by Warren Kiefer | |
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1972
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The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth | |
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1971
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The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall & Peter Wahloo | |
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1970
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Forfeit by Dick Francis | |
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1969
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A Case of Need by Michael Chrichton writing as Jeffrey Hudson | |
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1968
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God Save the Mark by Donald E. Westlake | |
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1967
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King of the Rainy Country by Nicolas Freeling | |
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1966
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The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall | |
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1965
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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John leCarré | |
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1964
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The Light of Day by Eric Ambler | |
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1963
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Death and the Joyful Woman by Ellis Peters | |
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1962
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Gideon's Fire by John Creasey writing as J.J. Marric | |
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1961
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Progress of a Crime by Julian Symons | |
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1960
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The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin | |
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1959
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The Eighth Circle by Stanley Ellin | |
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1958
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Room to Swing by Ed Lacy (This title is no longer available.) | |
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1957
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A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong | |
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1956
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Beast in View by Margaret Millar | |
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1955
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The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler | |
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1954
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Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay (Book on tape) |