Edgar Award Winners by the Year
2010 Winner Edgar Award
The Last Child
by John Hart
2004 Winner Edgar Award
Resurrection Men
by Ian Rankin
2001 Winner Edgar Award
The Bottoms
by Joe R Lansdale
Joe R. Lansdale is the author of more than a dozen novels, including Sunset and Sawdust , Lost Echoes , Leather Maiden , and Vanilla Ride . The Bottoms and Mucho Mojo were New York Times notable books. He has received the B… read more
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2000 Winner Edgar Award
Bones
by Jan Burke
Only one person knows where Julia Sayre is: her killer. Four years ago, the young mother of two disappeared, a story that soon became a personal mission for Irene Kelly. But the search for Julia proved fruitless. Now on death row for unimaginable act… read more
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1997 Winner Edgar Award
The Chatham School Affair
by Thomas H Cook
Attorney Henry Griswald has a secret: the truth behind the tragic events the world knew as the Chatham School Affair, the controversial tragedy that destroyed five lives, shattered a quiet community, and forever scarred the young boy. Layer by layer,… read more
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1996 Winner Edgar Award
Come To Grief
by Dick Francis
1994 Winner Edgar Award
The Sculptress
by Minette Walters
1986 Winner Edgar Award
A Dark-Adapted Eye
by Barbara Vine
1985 Winner Edgar Award
The Suspect
by L R Wright
The Suspect is a 1944 film noir set in Victorian times. It is based on the novel This Way Out, by James Ronald. Directed by Robert Siodmak and released by Universal Pictures, it tells the story of Philip Marshall, a kind but henpecked bank teller who… read more
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1983 Winner Edgar Award
Labrava
by Elmore Leonard
E-book extras: "Martin Amis Interviews 'The Dickens of Detroit'"; Elmore Leonard's "If It Sounds Like Writing, Rewrite It"; "All By Elmore: The Crime Novels & The Westerns"; Selected FilmographyJoe LaBrava first fell in love in a darkened movie theat… read more
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1980 Winner Edgar Award
Whip Hand
by Dick Francis
1978 Winner Edgar Award
Eye Of the Needle
by Ken Follett
An enemy spy, brilliant aristocrat and brutal assassin knows the secret to the Allies' greatest deception. But someone stands in his way, a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is beginning to love this killer who has mysteriously entered … read more
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1976 Winner Edgar Award
Promised Land
by Robert B Parker
The Promised Land (Ziemia Obiecana) is a 1975 Polish film directed by Andrzej Wajda, based on a novel by Władysław Reymont. Set in the industrial city of Łódź, The Promised Land tells the story of a Pole, a German, and a Jew struggling to build … read more
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1973 Winner Edgar Award
Dance Hall Of the Dead
by Tony Hillerman
Dance Hall Of The Dead is the second of the Navajo Tribal Police series of crime fiction novels by Tony Hillerman. Centered around the character of police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, Dance Hall of the Dead is, like many of Hillerman's books, set on … read more
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1971 Winner Edgar Award
The Day Of the Jackal
by Frederick Forsyth
The Day of the Jackal (1971) is a thriller novel by English writer Frederick Forsyth, about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS French terrorist group of the early 1960s, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France. The Day of… read more
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1968 Winner Edgar Award
A Case Of Need
by Jeffery Hudson
A Case of Need is a mystery novel written by Michael Crichton under the pseudonym Jeffery Hudson. It was first published in 1968 by The World Publishing Company (New York) and won an Edgar Award in 1969. The novel was re-released in 1993 under Cricht… read more
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1965 Winner Edgar Award
The Quiller Memorandum
by Adam Hall
The Quiller Memorandum is a film adaptation of the 1965 spy novel The Berlin Memorandum, by Trevor Dudley-Smith, screenplay by Harold Pinter, directed by Michael Anderson, featuring George Segal, Max von Sydow, Senta Berger and Alec Guinness. The fil… read more
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1964 Winner Edgar Award
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
by John Le Carre
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a novel by British author John le Carré. Set during the political tensions of the Cold War, the revolutionary espionage novel portrays the intelligence services of both Eastern and Western nations as sacrificing … read more
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1963 Winner Edgar Award
The Light Of Day
by Eric Ambler
Eric Ambler was born in London in 1909. Before turning to writing full-time, he worked at an engineering firm, and wrote copy for an advertising agency. His first novel was published in 1936. During the course of his career, Ambler was awarded two Go… read more
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1956 Winner Edgar Award
A Dram Of Poison
by Charlotte Armstrong
55-year-old poetry instructor Kenneth Gibson has remained a bachelor his whole life, but when he meets 32-year-old Rosemary, who seems helpless and alone, he decides to offer to help her by offering his hand. What he imagines to be a platon… read more
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1955 Winner Edgar Award
Beast In View
by Margaret Millar
Beast in View is a suspense novel and psychological thriller by Margaret Millar which won the Edgar Award in 1956, was adapted for an episode of the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1964, and was included on a list of the The Top 100 My… read more
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1954 Winner Edgar Award
The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888 - 1959) was the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Although he was born in Chicago, Chandler spent most of his boyhood and youth in England where he attended Dulwich College and later worked as … read more
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1953 Winner Edgar Award
Beat Not the Bones
by Jay Charlotte
Beat Not the Bones is a 1952 suspense novel by Charlotte Jay (pseudonym of Geraldine Halls) which won the inaugural Edgar award for best novel . The novel follows the actions of a sheltered young women who arrives in New Guinea from Australia, determ… read more
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