Der Edgar Award
Die MWA (Mystery Writers of America) verleiht jedes Jahr den Edgar Allan Poe Award (Edgar Award) in verschiedenen Kategorien.
| Best First Mystery Novel | Best Novel | Best Short Story |
| 2012 Lori Roy : Bent Road | Mo Hayder : Gone | Peter Turnbull: The man who took his hat off to the driver of the train |
| 2011 Bruce DeSilva: Rogue Island | Steve Hamilton : The Lock Artist | Doug Allyn: The Scent of Lilacs |
| 2010 Stefanie Pinthoff: In the Shadow of Gotham | John Hart: The last Child | Luis Alberto Urrea: Amapola |
| 2009 Francie Lin : The Foreigner | C.J.Box : Blue Heaven | T.Jefferson Parker: Skinhead Central |
| 2008 Tana French : In the Woods | John Hart : Down River | Susan Straight : The Golden Gopher |
| 2007 Alex Berenson : The Faithful Spy | Jason Goodwin : The Janissary Tree | Charles Ardai : The Home Front |
|
2006 Theresa Schwegel : Officer Down |
Jess Walter : Citizen Vince |
James W. Hall : The Catch |
| 2005 Don Lee: Country of Origin | T. Jefferson Parker : California Girl | Laurie Lynn Drummond :Something About a Scar |
| 2004 Rebecca Pawel : Death of a Nationalist | Ian Rankin: Resurrection Men | G. Miki Hayden : The Maids |
| 2003 Jonathon King: The Blue Edge of Midnight | S. J. Rozan: Winter and Night | Raymond Steiber: Mexican Gatsby |
| 2002 David Ellis: Line of Vision | T. Jefferson Parker: Silent Joe | S. J. Rozan: Double-Crossing Delancy |
| 2001 David Liss: A Conspiracy of Paper | Joe R. Lansdale: The Bottoms | Peter Robinson: Missing in Action |
| 2000 Eliot Pattison: The Skull Mantra | Jan Burke: Bones | Anne Perry: Heroes |
| 1999 Steve Hamilton: A Cold Day in Paradise | Robert Clark: Mr. White's Confession | Tom Franklin: Poachers |
| 1998 Joseph Kanon: Los Alamos | James Lee Burke: Cimarron Rose | Lawrence Block: Keller on the Spot |
| 1997 John Morgan Wilson: Simple Justice | Thomas H. Cook: The Chatham School Affair | Michael Malone: Red Clay |
| 1996 David Housewright: Penance | Dick Francis: Come to Grief | Jean B. Cooper: The Judge's Boy |
| 1995 George Dawes Green: The Caveman's Valentine | Mary Willis Walker: The Red Scream | Doug Allyn: The Dancing Bear |
| 1994 Laurie King: A Grave Talent | Minette Walters: The Sculptress | Lawrence Block: : Keller's Therapy |
| 1993 Michael Connelly: The Black Echo | Margaret Maron: Bootlegger's Daughter | Benjamin M. Schutz: Mary, Mary, Shut the Door |
| 1992 Peter Blauner: Slow Motion Riot | Lawrence Block: A Dance at the Slaughterhouse | Wendy Hornsby: Nine Sons |
| 1991 Patricia D. Cornwell: Postmortem | Julie Smith: New Orleans Mourning | Lynne Barrett: Elvis Lives |
| 1990 Susan Wolfe: The Last Billable Hour | James Lee Burke: Black Cherry Blues | Donald E. Westlake: Too Many Crooks |
|
1989 David Stout: Carolina Skeletons |
Stuart M. Kaminsky: A Cold Red Sunrise |
Bill Crenshaw: Flicks |
| 1988 Deidre S. Laiken: Death Among Strangers | Aaron Elkins: Old Bones | Harlan Ellison: Soft Monkey |
| 1987 Larry Beinhart: No One Rides for Free | Barbara Vine: A Dark-Adapted Eye | Robert Sampson: Rain in Pinton County |
| 1986 Jonathan Kellerman: When the Bough Breaks | L. R. Wright: : The Suspect | John Lutz: Ride the Lightning |
| 1985 R. D. Rosen: Strike Three, You're Dead | Ross Thomas: Briarpatch | Lawrence Block: By the Dawn's Early Light |
| 1984 Will Harriss: The Bay Psalm Book Murder | Elmore Leonard: La Brava | Ruth Rendell: The New Girlfriend |
| 1983 Thomas Perry: The Butcher's Boy | Rick Boyer: Billingsgate Shoal | Frederic Forsyth: There Are No Snakes in Ireland |
| 1982 Stuart Woods: Chiefs | William Bayer: Peregrin | Jack Ritchie: The Absence of Emily |
| 1981 K. Nolte Smith: The Watcher | Dick Francis: Whip Hand | Clark Howard: Horn Man |
| 1980 Richard North Patterson: The Lasko Tangent | Arthur Maling: The Rheingold Route | Geoffrey Norman: Armed and Dangerous |
| 1979 William L. DeAndrea: Killed in the Ratings | Ken Follett: The Eye of the Needle | Barbara Owens: The Cloud Beneath the Eaves |
| 1978 Robert Ross: A French Finish | William H. Hallhan: Catch Me: Kill Me | Thomas Walsh: Chance after Chance |
| 1977 James Patterson: The Thomas Berryman Number | Robert B. Parker: Promised Land | Etta Revesz: Like a Terrible Scream |
| 1976 Rex Burns: The Alvarez Journal | Brian Garfield: Hopscotch | Jesse Hill Ford: The Jail |
| 1975 Gregory Mcdonald: Fletch | Jon Cleary: Peter's Pence | Ruth Rendell: The Fallen Curtain |
| 1974 Paul E. Erdman: The Billion Dollar Sure Thing | Tony Hillerman: Dance Hall of the Dead | Harlan Ellison: The Whimper of Whipped Dogs |
| 1973 R. H. Shimer: Squaw Point | Warren Kiefer: : The Lingala Code | Joyee Harrington: The Purple Shroud |
| 1972 A. H. Z. Carr: Finding Maubee | Frederic Forsyth: The Day of the Jackal | Robert L. Fish: Moonlight Gardener |
| 1971 Lawrence Sanders: The Anderson Tapes | Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo: The Laughing Policeman | Margery Finn Brown: In the Forests of Riga the Beasts Are Very Wild |
| 1970 Joe Gores: A Time for Predators | Dick Fancis: Forfeit | Joe Gores: Goodbye, Pops |
|
1969 Dorothy Uhnak: The Bait
|
Jeffrey Hudson: A Case of Need | Warner Law: The Man Who Fooled the World |
| 1968 Michael Collins: Act of Fear | Donald E. Westlake: God Save the Mark | Edward D. Hoch: The Oblong Room |
| 1967 Ross Thomas: The Cold War Swap | Nicholas Freeling.: The King of the Rainy Country | Rhys Davies: The Chosen One |
| 1966 John Ball: In the Heat of the Night | Adam Hall: The Quiller Memorandum | Shirley Jackson : The Possibility of Evil |
| 1965 Harry Kemelman: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late | John Le Carre: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | Lawrence Treat: H as in Homicide |
| 1964 Cornelius Hirschberg: Florentine Finish | Eric Ambler : The Light of Day | Leslie Ann Browning: Man Gehorcht |
| 1963 Robert L. Fish: The Fugitive | Ellis Peters: Death and the Joyful Woman | David Ely: The Sailing Club |
| 1962 Suzanne Blanc: The Green Stone | J. J. Marric: Gideon's Fire | Avram Davidson: Affair at Lahore Cantonment |
| 1961 John Holbrooke: The Man in the Cage | Julian Symons: The Progress of a Crime | John Durham: Tiger |
| 1960 Henry Slesar: The Grey Flannel Shroud | Celia Fremlin: The Hours Before Dawn | Roald Dahl: The Landlady |
| 1959 Richard Martin Stern: The Bright Road to Fear | Stanley Ellin: The Eighth Circle | William O'Farrell: Over There, Darkness |
| 1958 William Rawle Weeks: Knock and Wait a While | Ed Lacy: Room to Swing | Gerald Kersh: The Secret of the Bottle |
| 1957 Donald McNutt Douglas: Rebecca's Pride | Charlotte Armstrong: A Dram of Poison | Stanley Ellin: The Blessington Method |
| 1956 Lane Kauffman: The Perfectionist | Margaret Millar: Beast in View | Philip MacDonald: Dream No More |
| 1955 Jean Potts: Go, Lovely Rose | Raymond Chandler: The Long Goodbye | Stanley Ellin: The House Party |
| 1954 Ira Levin: A Kiss Before Dying | Charlotte Jay: Beat Not the Bones |
Roald Dahl |
| 1953 William Campbell Gault: Don't Cry for Me | Philip MacDonald | |
| 1952 Mary McMullen: Strangle Hold | John Collier | |
| 1951 Thomas Walsh: Nightmare in Manhattan | Lawrence G. Blochman | |
| 1950 Alan Green: What a Body | Ellery Queen | |
| 1949 Mildred Davis: The Room Upstairs | William Irish | |
| 1948 Frederic Brown : The Fabulous Clipjoint | Ellery Queen | |
| 1947 Helen Eustis: The Horizontal Man | ||
| 1946 Julius Fast: Watchful at Night |
31.102012 © Thomas und Martina Fink