The Edgar Allen Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. They honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film and theatre published or produced in the past year. Categories in 2003 included:

• Best novel
• Best first novel by an American author
• Best paperback original
• Best critical / biographical
• Best fact crime
• Best short story
• Best young adult
• Best juvenile
• Best television episode teleplay
• Best motion picture screenplay
• Best play

Here is a list of the Edgar Best Novel award winners

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

External links

• Mystery Writers of America's website (http://www.mysterywriters.org/)