Edgar Award Winners

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City. They honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater published or produced in the previous year.

1954  Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay
1955  Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler 
1956  Beast in View by Margaret Millar  
1957  Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong 
1958  Room to Swing by Ed Lacy
1959  Eighth Circle by Stanley Ellin 
1960  Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin  
1961  Progress of a Crime by Julian Symons  
1962  Gideon's Fire by J.J. Marric 
1963  Death and the Joyful Woman by Ellis Peters 
1964  Light of Dayby Eric Ambler 
1965  Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John Le Carre   
1966  Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall 
1967  King of the Rainy Country by Nicolas Freeling 
1968 God Save the Mark by Donald E. Westlake 
1969  A Case of Need by Jeffrey Hudson 
1970  Forfeit by Dick Francis 
1971  Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall 
1972  Day of the Jackal by Forsyth Frederick
1973  Lingala Code by Warren Kiefer 

1974  Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman 
1975  Peter's Pence by Jon Cleary
1976  Hopscotch by Brian Garfield 
1977  Promised Land by Robert B. Parker
1978  Catch Me, Kill Me by William H. Hallahan  
1979  Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett  
1980  Rheingold Route by Arthur Maling 
1981  Whip Hand by Francis Dick
1982  Peregrine by William Bayer 
1983 Billingsgate Shoal by Rick Boyer 
1984 La Brava by Elmore Leonard 
1985  Briarpatch by Ross Thomas 
1986  The Suspect by L.R. Wright
1987  Dark Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
1988  Old Bones by Aaron J. Elkins 

1989  Cold Red Sunrise by Stuart M. Kaminsky 
1990  Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke  
1991  New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith 
1992  Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block 
1993  Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron 
1994  Sculptress by Minette Walters
1995  Red Scream by Mary Willis Walker
1996  Come to Grief by Dick Francis
1997  Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook
1998  Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke
1999  Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark
2000  Bones by Jan Burke
2001  The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
2002  Silent Joe by Parker T. Jefferson
2003  Winter and Night by Rozan S.J. 
2004  Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin
2005  California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker

2006  Citizen Vince by Jess Walters
2007 The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
2008 Down River by John Hart
2009 Blue Heaven by C.J. Box
2010 The Last Child by John Hart
2011 The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
2012 Gone by Mo Hayder
2013 Live by Night by Dennis Lehane

2014 Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger