Edgar Award Winners
| Year | Title | Author |
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| 2008 |
Down River |
John Hart |
| 2007 |
The Janissary Tree |
Jason Goodwin |
| 2006 |
Citizen Vince |
Jess Walter |
| 2005 |
California Girl |
T. Jefferson Parker |
| 2004 |
Resurrection Men |
Ian Rankin |
| 2003 |
Winter and Night |
S.J. Rozan |
| 2002 |
Silent Joe |
T. Jefferson Parker |
| 2001 |
The Bottoms |
Joe R. Lansdale |
| 2000 |
Bones |
Jan Burke |
| 1999 |
Mr. White's Confession |
Robert Clark |
| 1998 |
Cimarron Rose |
James Lee Burke |
| 1997 |
Chatham School Affair |
Thomas H. Cook |
| 1996 |
Come to Grief |
Dick Francis |
| 1995 |
Red Scream |
Mary Willis Walker |
| 1994 |
Sculptress |
Minette Walters |
| 1993 |
Bootlegger's Daughter |
Margaret Maron |
| 1992 |
Dance at the Slaughterhouse |
Lawrence Block |
| 1991 |
New Orleans Mourning |
Julie Smith |
| 1990 |
Black Cherry Blues |
James Lee Burke |
| 1989 |
Cold Red Sunrise |
Stuart M. Kaminsky |
| 1988 |
Old Bones |
Aaron J. Elkins |
| 1987 |
A Dark-Adapted Eye |
Barbara Vine |
| 1986 |
The Suspect |
L. R. Wright |
| 1985 |
The Suspect |
L. R. Wright |
| 1984 |
Briarpatch |
Ross Thomas |
| 1983 |
LaBrava |
Elmore Leonard |
| 1982 |
Billingsgate Shoal |
Rick Boyer |
| 1981 |
Peregrine |
William Bayer |
| 1980 |
Whip Hand |
Dick Francis |
| 1979 |
Rheingold Route |
Arthur Maling |
| 1978 |
Eye of the Needle |
Ken Follett |
| 1977 |
Catch Me, Kill Me |
William H. Hallahan |
| 1976 |
Promised Land |
Robert B. Parker |
| 1975 |
Hopscotch |
Brian Garfield |
| 1974 |
Peter's Pence |
Jon Cleary |
| 1973 |
Dance Hall of the Dead |
Tony Hillerman |
| 1972 |
Lingala Code |
Warren Kiefer |
| 1971 |
Day of the Jackal |
Frederick Forsyth |
| 1970 |
Laughing Policeman |
Maj Sjowall |
| 1969 |
Forfeit |
Dick Francis |
| 1968 |
A Case of Need |
Jeffery Hudson |
| 1967 |
God Save the Mark |
Donald E. Westlake |
| 1966 |
King of the Rainy Country |
Nicolas Freeling |
| 1965 |
Quiller Memorandum |
Adam Hall |
| 1964 |
Spy Who Came In from the Cold |
John Le Carre |
| 1963 |
Light of Day |
Eric Ambler |
| 1962 |
Death and the Joyful Woman |
Ellis Peters |
| 1961 |
Gideon's Fire |
J. J. Marric |
| 1960 |
Progress of a Crime |
Julian Symons |
| 1959 |
Hours Before Dawn |
Celia Fremlin |
| 1958 |
Eighth Circle |
Stanley Ellin |
| 1957 |
Room to Swing |
Ed Lacy |
| 1956 |
Dram of Poison |
Charlotte Armstrong |
| 1955 |
Beast in View |
Margaret Millar |
| 1954 |
Long Goodbye |
Raymond Chandler |
| 1953 |
Beat Not the Bones |
Charlotte Jay |
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