Edgar Award


The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly called the Edgars, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City. Named after American writer Edgar Allan Poe, a pioneer in the genre, the awards honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater published or produced in the previous year.

Categories

Winners and, where known, shortlisted titles for each year:

1950s

;1954 Charlotte Jay, Beat Not the Bones
;1955 Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
;1956 Margaret Millar, Beast in View
;1957 Charlotte Armstrong, A Dram of Poison
;1958 Ed Lacy, Room to Swing
;1959 Stanley Ellin, The Eighth Circle
;1960 Celia Fremlin, The Hours Before Dawn
;1961 Julian Symons, The Progress of a Crime
;1962 J. J. Marric, Gideon's Fire
;1963 Ellis Peters, Death and the Joyful Woman
;1964 Eric Ambler, The Light of Day
;1965 John le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
;1966 Adam Hall, The Quiller Memorandum
;1967 Nicolas Freeling, King of the Rainy Country
;1968 Donald E. Westlake, God Save the Mark
;1969 "Jeffery Hudson", A Case of Need
;1970 Dick Francis, Forfeit
;1971 Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö, The Laughing Policeman
;1972 Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal
;1973 Warren Kiefer, The Lingala Code
;1974 Tony Hillerman, Dance Hall of the Dead
;1975 Jon Cleary, Peter's Pence
;1976 Brian Garfield, Hopscotch
;1977 Robert B. Parker, Promised Land
;1978 William H. Hallahan, Catch Me: Kill Me
;1979 Ken Follett, Eye of the Needle
;1980 Arthur Maling, The Rheingold Route
;1981 Dick Francis, Whip Hand
;1982 William Bayer, Peregrine
;1983 Rick Boyer, Billingsgate Shoal
;1984 Elmore Leonard, La Brava
;1985 Ross Thomas, Briarpatch
;1986 L. R. Wright, The Suspect
;1987 Barbara Vine, A Dark-Adapted Eye
;1988 Aaron Elkins, Old Bones
;1989 Stuart M. Kaminsky, A Cold Red Sunrise

1990s

;1990 James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues
;1991 Julie Smith, New Orleans Mourning
;1992 Lawrence Block, A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
;1993 Margaret Maron, Bootlegger's Daughter
;1994 Minette Walters, The Sculptress
;1995 Mary Willis Walker, The Red Scream
;1996 Dick Francis, Come to Grief
;1997 Thomas H. Cook, The Chatham School Affair
;1998 James Lee Burke, Cimarron Rose
;1999 Robert Clark, Mr. White's Confession

2000s

;2000 Jan Burke, Bones
;2001 Joe R. Lansdale, The Bottoms
;2002 T. Jefferson Parker, Silent Joe
;2003 S. J. Rozan, Winter and Night
;2004 Ian Rankin, Resurrection Men
;2005 T. Jefferson Parker, California Girl
;2006 Jess Walter, Citizen Vince
;2007 Jason Goodwin, The Janissary Tree
;2008 John Hart, Down River
;2009 C. J. Box, Blue Heaven

2010s

;2010 John Hart, The Last Child
;2011 Steve Hamilton, The Lock Artist
;2012 Mo Hayder, Gone
;2013 Dennis Lehane, Live by Night
;2014 William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace
;2015 Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes
;2016 Lori Roy, Let Me Die in His Footsteps
;2017 Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
;2018 Attica Locke, Bluebird, Bluebird
;2019 Walter Mosley, Down the River Unto the Sea

2020s

;;2020 Elly Griffiths, The Stranger Diaries

1972 winners

Nominees:

2008 winners

Nominees:

2009 winners

Nominees:

2010 winners

Nominees:
The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award was presented to "A Dreadful Day" – Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine by Dan Warthman.

2011 Winners

Nominees:

2012 winners

Nominees:
Nominees:
Nominees:
Nominees:
Nominees:
Nominees:
Nominees:
Nominees:
Winners: