Der Shamus Award
Der Shamus-Award wird von den "Private Eye Writers of America (PWA)" verliehen, die jährlich die besten Privatdetektiv-Romane würdigen.
| LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD -- THE EYE | BEST P. I. PAPERBACK NOVEL | BEST FIRST P. I. NOVEL | BEST P. I. SHORT STORY | BEST P. I. NOVEL |
| 2011 Ed Gorman | Christopher G. Moore Asia Hand | Michael Ayoob In Search of Mercy | Gar Anthony Haywood The Lamb Was Sure to Go | Lori Armstrong No Mercy |
| 2010 Robert Crais | Ira Berkowitz: Sinner´s Ball | Brad Parks: Faces of the Gone | Dave Zeltserman: Julius Katz | Marcia Muller: Looked In |
| 2009 Robert J Randisi | Lori Armstrong: Snow Blind | Ian Vasquez: In the Heat | Mitch Alderman : Family Values | Reed Farrel Coleman: Empty Ever After |
| 2008 Joe Gores | Richard Aleas Songs of Innocent | Sean Chercover Big City, Bad Blood | Cornelia Read: Hungry Enough | Reed Farrel Coleman: Soul Patch |
| 2007 Stuart M. Kaminsky | P.J. Parrish: An Unquiet Grave | Declan Hughes: The Wrong Kind of Blood | O'Neil De Noux: The Heart has Reasons | Ken Bruen: The Dramatist |
| 2006 Max Allan Collins | Reed Farrell ColemanS: The James Deans | Louise Ure: Forcing Amaryllis | Michael Wiecek: A Death in Ueno | Michael Connelly: The Lincoln Lawyer |
| 2005 Sara Paretsky | Max Phillips: Fade to Blonde | Ingrid Black: The Dead | Pearl Abraham: Hasidic Noir | Ed Wright: While I Disappear |
| 2004 Donald E. Westlake | Andy Straka: Cold Quarry | Peter Spiegelman: Black Maps | Loren D. Estleman: Lady on Ice | Ken Bruen: The Guards |
| 2003 Sue Grafton | D. Daniel Judson: The Poisoned Rose | Eddie Muller: The Distance | Terence Faherty: The Second Coming | James W. Hall: Blackwater Sound |
| 2002 Lawrence Block | Lyda Morehouse Archangel Protocol | David Fulmer Chasing the Devil's Tail | Ceri Jordan Rough Justice | S.J. Rozan Reflecting The Sky |
| 2001 | Thomas Lipinski: Death in the Steel City | Bob Truluck: Street Level | Brendan DuBois: The Road's End | Carolina Garcia-Aguilera: Havana Heat |
| 2000 Ed Hoch | Laura Lippman: In Big Trouble | John Connolly: Every Dead Thing | J. Parker: Akitadad's First Case | Don Winslow: California Fire and Life |
| 1999 Maxine O'Callaghan | Steve Womack: Murder manual | Steve Hamilton: A cold day in paradise | Warren Murphy: Another day, another dollar | Bill Pronzini: Booby trap |
| 1998 | Laura Lippman: Charm City | Rick Riordan: Big Red Tequilla | Carolyn Wheat: Love Me For My Yellow Hair Alone | Terrance Faherty: Come back dead |
| 1997 Stephen Marlowe | Harlan Coben: Fade away | Carol Lea Benjamin: This dog for hire | Lia Matera: Dead drunk | Robert Crais: Sunset express |
| 1996 | William Jasperson: Native angels | Richard Barre: The innocents | Gar Anthony Haywood: pray nobody sees you | S. J. Rozan: Concourse |
| 1995 | Ed Goldberg: Served cold | Dennis Lehane: A drink before the war | Brendan DuBois: The necessary brother | Sue Grafton: "K" is for killer |
| 1994 Stephen J. Cannell | Rodman Philbrick: Brothers and sinners | Lynn Hightower: Satan's lambs | Lawrence Block: The merciful angel of death | Lawrence Block: The devil knows you're dead |
| 1993 Marcia Muller | Marele Day: Last tango of Dolores Delgado | John Straley: The woman who married a bear | Benjamin Schutz: Mary, Mary shut the door | Harold Adams: The man who was taller than God |
| 1992 Joseph Hansen | Paul Kemprecos: Cool blue tomb | Thomas D. Davis: Suffer little children | Nancy Pickard: Dust devil | Max Allan Collins: Stolen away |
| 1991 Roy Huggins | W. Glenn Duncan: Rafferty--Fatal sisters | Walter Mosley: Devil in a blue dress | Marcia Muller: Final resting place | Sue Grafton: "G" is for gumshoe |
| 1990 | Rob Kantner: Hell's only half full | Karen Kijewski: Katwalk | Mickey Spillane: The killing man | Jonathan Valin: Extenuating circumstances |
| 1989 | Rob Kantner: Dirty work | Gar Anthony Haywood: Fear of the dark | Loren Estleman: The crooked way | John Lutz: Kiss |
| 1988 Michael Collins | L. J. Washburn: Wild night | Michael Allegretto: Death on the rocks | Ed Gorman: Turn away | Benjamin Schutz: A tax in blood |
| 1987 Bill Pronzini | Rob Kantner: The back door man | J. W. Rider: Jersey tomatoes | Rob Kantner: Fly away home | Jeremiah Healy: Staked goat |
| 1986 Richard S. Prather | Earl Emerson: Poverty Bay | Wayne Warga: Hardcover | Loren D. Estleman: Eight miles and Dequindre | Sue Grafton:" B" is for burglar |
| 1985 Howard Browne | Warren Murphy: The ceiling of hell | Jack Early: A creative kind of killer | Lawrence Block: By dawn's early light | Loren Estleman: Sugartown |
| 1984 William Campbell Gault | Paul Engleman: Dead in | Bill Pronzini: Cat's paw | Max Allan Collins: True detective | |
| 1983 Mickey Spillane | William Campbell Gault: The Cana diversion | John Lutz: What you don't know can hurt you | Lawrence Block: Eight million ways to die | |
| 1982 Ross Macdonald | Max Byrd: California thriller | Bill Pronzini: Hoodwink |
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