TheEdgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel was established in 1954. Only hardcover novels written by a published American author are eligible. Paperback original novels are eligible for theEdgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original. Debut novels by American novels are eligible for theEdgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel.[1]
Winners for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel are listed below.
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Charlotte Jay | Beat Not the Bones | Winner | |
| 1955 | Raymond Chandler | The Long Goodbye | Winner | |
| 1956 | Margaret Millar | Beast in View | Winner | |
| The Gordons | The Case of the Talking Bug | Shortlist | ||
| Patricia Highsmith | The Talented Mr. Ripley | |||
| 1957 | Charlotte Armstrong | A Dram of Poison | Winner | |
| Margot Bennett | The Man Who Didn't Fly | Shortlist | ||
| Charles Samuels and Louise Samuels | Night Fell on Georgia | |||
| 1958 | Ed Lacy | Room to Swing | Winner | |
| Bill Ballinger | The Longest Second | Shortlist | ||
| Marjorie Carleton | The Night of the Good Children | |||
| Arthur Upfield | The Bushman Who Came Back | |||
| 1959 | Stanley Ellin | The Eighth Circle | Winner | |
| David Alexander | The Madhouse in Washington Square | Shortlist | ||
| Lee Blackstock | The Woman in the Woods (Miss Fenny asCharity Blackstock) | |||
| Dorothy Salisbury Davis | A Gentleman Called |
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | James Lee Burke | Black Cherry Blues | Winner | [3] |
| Frances Fyfield | A Question of Guilt | Shortlist | ||
| Bartholomew Gill | Death of a Joyce Scholar | |||
| Andrew Coburn | Goldilocks | |||
| Eugene Izzi | The Booster | |||
| 1991 | Julie Smith | New Orleans Mourning | Winner | |
| Reginald Hill | Bones and Silence | Shortlist | ||
| R.D. Zimmerman | Deadfall In Berlin | |||
| Jay Brandon | Fade the Heat | |||
| Loren Estleman | Whiskey River | |||
| 1992 | Lawrence Block | A Dance at the Slaughterhouse | Winner | |
| Andrew Klavan | Don't Say a Word | Shortlist | ||
| Nancy Pickard | I.O.U. | |||
| Stuart Woods | Palindrome | |||
| Lia Matera | Prior Convictions | |||
| 1993 | Margaret Maron | Bootlegger's Daughter | Winner | |
| Joe Gores | 32 Cadillacs | Shortlist | ||
| Liza Cody | Backhand | |||
| Kem Nunn | Pomona Queen | |||
| Walter Mosley | White Butterfly | |||
| 1994 | Minette Walters | The Sculptress | Winner | |
| Robert Crais | Free Fall | Shortlist | ||
| Peter Hoeg | Smilla's Sense Of Snow | |||
| Gerald Seymour | The Journeyman Tailor | |||
| Marcia Muller | Wolf in the Shadows | |||
| 1995 | Mary Willis Walker | The Red Scream | Winner | |
| Lawrence Block | A Long Line of Dead Men | Shortlist | ||
| Peter Abrahams | Lights Out | |||
| Edna Buchanan | Miami, It's Murder | |||
| Peter Robinson | Wednesday's Child | |||
| 1996 | Dick Francis | Come to Grief | Winner | |
| John Dunning | The Bookman's Wake | Shortlist | ||
| Edward Marston | The Roaring Boy | |||
| John Katzenbach | The Shadow Man | |||
| Peter Lovesey | The Summons | |||
| 1997 | Thomas H. Cook | The Chatham School Affair | Winner | |
| Margaret Lawrence | Hearts and Bones | Shortlist | ||
| Carolyn Wheat | Mean Streak | |||
| Anne Perry | Pentecost Alley | |||
| Laurie R. King | With Child | |||
| 1998 | James Lee Burke | Cimarron Rose | Winner | [3] |
| Bill Pronzini | A Wasteland of Strangers | Shortlist | ||
| Ian Rankin | Black and Blue | |||
| Deborah Crombie | Dreaming of the Bones | |||
| Mark T. Sullivan | The Purification Ceremony | |||
| 1999 | Robert Clark | Mr. White's Confession | Winner | |
| J. Wallis Martin | A Likeness in Stone | Shortlist | ||
| Robert Goddard | Beyond Recall | |||
| Michael Connelly | Blood Work | |||
| Domenic Stansberry | The Last Days of Il Duce |
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