Edgar Allan Poe Award Winners

The Edgar awards are presented in the year following that of publication of the work. Therefore, a 1990 "Edgar" is for a 1989 work. This started after 1986. Therefore, 1987 is not represented on the list.

• 1998
  • Best Novel: Cimarron Rose, by James Lee Burke
  • Best First Novel: Los Alamos, by Joseph Kanon
  • Best Paperback Original: Charm City, by Laura Lippman
  • Best Critical/Biographical Work: 'G' Is for Grafton: The World of Kinsey Millhone, by Natalie Hevener Kaufman and Carol McGinnis Kay
  • Best Fact Crime: The Death of Innocents, by Richard Firstman and Jamie Talan
  • Best Young Adult: Ghost Canoe, by Will Hobbs
  • Best Juvenile: Sparrows in the Scullery, by Barbara Brooks Wallace
  • Best Short Story: Keller on the Spot, by Lawrence Block
  • Grand Master Award: Barbara Mertz a.k.a Elizabeth Peters and. Barbara Michaels
• 1997
  • Best Novel: The Chatham School Affair, by Thomas A. Cook
  • Best First Novel: Simple Justice, by John Morgan Wilson
  • Best Paperback Original: Fade Away, by Harlan Coben
  • Best Critical/Biographical Work: The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes, Michael Atkinson
  • Best Fact Crime: Power to Hurt, by Darcy O'Brian
  • Best Young Adult:Twisted Summer, by Willo Davis Roberts
  • Best Juvenile: The Clearing, by Dorothy Renolds Miller
  • Best Short Story: Red Clay, by Michael Malone
• 1996 Come To Grief, by Dick Francis
• 1995 The Red Scream, by Mary Willis Walker
• 1994 Sculptress, by Minette Walters
• 1993 Bootlegger’s Daughter, by Margaret Maron
• 1992 A Dance At The Slaughterhouse, by Lawrence Block
• 1991 New Orleans Mourning, by Julie Smith
• 1990 Black Cherry Blues, by James Lee Burke
• 1989 A Cold Red Sunrise, by Stuart M. Kaminsky
• 1988 Old Bones, by Aaron Elkins
• 1986 A Dark-Adapted Eye, by Barbara Vine
• 1985 The Suspect, by L.R. Wright
• 1984 Briar Patch, by Ross Thomas
• 1983 La Brava, by Elmore Leonard
• 1982 Billingsgate Shoal, by Rick Boyer
• 1981 Peregrine, by William Bayer
• 1980 Whip Hand, by Dick Francis
• 1979 The Rheingold Route, by Arthur Maling
• 1978 The Eye of the Needle, by Ken Follett
• 1977 Catch Me: Kill Me, by William Hallahan
• 1976 Promised Land, by Robert Parker
• 1975 Hopscotch, by Brian Garfield
• 1974 Peter’s Pence, by Jon Cleary
• 1973 Dance Hall of the Dead, by Tony Hillerman
• 1972 The Lingala Code, by Warren Kiefer
• 1971 The Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth
• 1970 The Laughing Policeman, by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
• 1969 Forfeit, by Dick Francis
• 1968 A Case of Need, by Jeffery Hudson
• 1967 God Save the Mark, by Donald E. Westlake
• 1966 King of the Rainy Country, by Nicolas Freeling
• 1965 The Quiller Memorandum, by Adam Hall
• 1964 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, by John Le Carre
• 1963 The Light of Day, by Eric Ambler
• 1962 Death of the Joyful Woman, by Ellis Peters
• 1961 Gideon’s Fire, by J.J. Marric
• 1960 Progress of a Crime, by Julian Symons
• 1959 The Hours Before Dawn, by Celia Fremlin
• 1958 The Eighth Circle, by Stanley Ellin
• 1957 Room to Swing, by Ed Lacy
• 1956 A Dram of Poison, by Charlotte Armstrong
• 1955 Beast in View, by Margaret Millar
• 1954 The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler
• 1953 Beat Not the Bones, by Charlotte Jay