List of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original winners
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1970s
- 1970 Scott C. S. Stone, The Dragon's Eye
- 1971 Dan J. Marlowe, Flashpoint
- 1972 Frank McAuliffe, For Murder I Charge More
- 1973 Richard WormserRichard WormserRichard Edward Wormser was a prolific American writer of pulp fiction, detective fiction, screenplays, and Westerns, some of it written using the pseudonym of Ed Friend...
, The Invader - 1974 Will Perry, Death of an Informer
- 1975 Roy WinsorRoy WinsorRoy Winsor was an American soap opera writer, creator and novelist.Roy Winsor was born in Chicago Illinois in 1912. He is most famous for creating some of the longest running soap operas in television history. Before he created television soap operas he wrote for many radio serials. He also...
, The Corpse That Walked - 1976 John R. Feegel, Autopsy
- 1977 Gregory McdonaldGregory McdonaldGregory Mcdonald was an American mystery writer best known for his character Irwin Maurice Fletcher, an investigative reporter otherwise known as "Fletch." Fletch was later played by Chevy Chase in the movie of the same name...
, Confess, Fletch - 1978 Mike Jahn, The Quark Maneuver
- 1979 Frank Bandy, Deceit and Deadly Lies
1980s
- 1980 William L. DeAndreaWilliam L. DeAndreaWilliam L. DeAndrea was an American mystery writer and columnist. He won three Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, the first for his first novel, Killed in the Ratings. The majority of his novels made up several series. The Matt Cobb mysteries drew on DeAndrea's experience working...
, The Hog Murders - 1981 Bill GrangerBill GrangerBill Granger is a self-taught cook, restaurateur and food writer, based in his native Australia, but also working internationally.-Career:In the late 1980s, Granger relocated from Melbourne to Sydney to study art. He found inspiration in the city's lifestyle, light and harbour views. He worked...
, Public Murders - 1982 L. A. Morse, The Old Dick
- 1983 Teri White, Triangle
- 1984 Margaret Tracy, Mrs. White
- 1985 Molly Cochran and Warren MurphyWarren MurphyWarren Murphy is an American author, most famous as the co-creator of The Destroyer series, the basis for the film Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. He worked as a reporter and editor and after service during the Korean War, he drifted into politics.Murphy also wrote the screenplay for Lethal...
, Grandmaster - 1986 Warren MurphyWarren MurphyWarren Murphy is an American author, most famous as the co-creator of The Destroyer series, the basis for the film Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. He worked as a reporter and editor and after service during the Korean War, he drifted into politics.Murphy also wrote the screenplay for Lethal...
, Pigs Get Fat - 1987 Robert Wright CampbellRobert Wright CampbellRobert Wright Campbell , often credited as R. Wright Campbell, was an American screenwriter, author and occasional actor...
, The Junkyard Dog - 1988 Sharyn McCrumbSharyn McCrumbSharyn McCrumb is an American writer whose books celebrate the history and folklore of Appalachia. McCrumb is the winner of numerous literary awards, and the author of the Elizabeth McPherson series, the Ballad series, and the St...
, Bimbos of the Death Sun - 1989 Timothy FindleyTimothy FindleyTimothy Irving Frederick Findley, OC, O.Ont was a Canadian novelist and playwright. He was also informally known by the nickname Tiff or Tiffy, an acronym of his initials.-Biography:...
, The Telling of Lies
1990s
- 1990 Keith PetersonKeith PetersonAlan Keith Peterson was born in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada and lives in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. He is currently the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Cambridge Bay having won the seat in the 2004 Nunavut election....
, The Rain - 1991 David Handler, The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 1992 Thomas AdcockThomas AdcockThomas Adcock is a Detroit-born journalist and mystery novelist who won the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original in 1992. His novels and short stories been translated into Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Bulgarian and Czech...
, Dark Maze - 1993 Dana StabenowDana StabenowDana Stabenow is an American author who has written science fiction, mystery, and suspense/thriller novels. Many of Stabenow's books are set in her home state of Alaska, where she was raised by her single mother who lived and worked on a fish tender in the Gulf of Alaska. Stabenow received a B.A...
, A Cold Day for Murder - 1994 Steven Womack, Dead Folk's Blues
- 1995 Lisa ScottolineLisa ScottolineLisa Scottoline is an American author of legal thrillers. Her novels have been translated into 25 languages.Scottoline was born in Philadelphia and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a degree in English. In 1981, she received a Juris Doctorate from the...
, Final Appeal - 1996 William HeffernanWilliam HeffernanWilliam Heffernan is an American novelist born in New Haven, Connecticut. Before becoming a novelist, Heffernan was an investigative reporter for the New York Daily News.http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=atpHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CowDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6180,3971449&dq=william-heffernan+daily-news&hl=en For...
, Tarnished Blue - 1997 Harlan CobenHarlan CobenHarlan Coben is an American author of mystery novels and thrillers. The plots of his novels often involve the resurfacing of unresolved or misinterpreted events in the past and often have multiple plot twists...
, Fade Away - 1998 Laura LippmanLaura LippmanLaura Lippman is an American author of detective fiction.-Biography:Lippmann was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the daughter of Theo Lippman Jr., a well known and respected writer at the Baltimore Sun, and Madeline Lippman, a retired school librarian for the...
, Charm City - 1999 Rick RiordanRick RiordanRichard Russell "Rick" Riordan, Jr. is an American author best known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. He also wrote the Tres Navarre mystery series for adults and helped to edit Demigods and Monsters, a collection of essays on the topic of his Percy Jackson series...
, The Widower's Two-Step
2000s
- 2000 Ruth Birmingham, Fulton County Blues
- 2001 Mark GrahamMark GrahamMark Graham may refer to:*Mark Anthony Graham , Canadian Olympic athlete and casualty in the War in Afghanistan*Mark Graham , New Zealand rugby league footballer and coach...
, The Black Maria - 2002 Daniel ChavarriaDaniel ChavarriaDaniel Chavarria is a Uruguayan revolutionary and writer, living in Cuba.- Life :Daniel Chavarria is known to have lived an adventurous life. He has been working as miner in Essen, model in Colonia, guide at the Prado Museum in Madrid, washing dishes in Paris, amongs the other occupations...
, Adios Muchachos - 2003 T. J. MacGregorT. J. MacGregorPatricia Janeshutz MacGregor writes most of her award-winning mysteries under the pen name of T.J. MacGregor. As Alison Drake she wrote five novels and as Trish Janeshutz she wrote two. As Trish MacGregor, she has written 15 nonfiction books that reflect her interests - astrology, the tarot,...
, Out of Sight - 2004 Sylvia Maultash Warsh, Find Me Again
- 2005 Domenic Stansberry, The Confession
- 2006 Jeffrey FordJeffrey FordJeffrey Ford is an American writer in the Fantastic genre tradition, although his works have spanned genres including Fantasy, Science Fiction and Mystery. His work is characterized by a sweeping imaginative power, humor, literary allusion, and a fascination with tales told within tales...
, Girl in the Glass - 2007 Naomi Hirahara, Snakeskin Shamisen
- 2008 Megan AbbottMegan AbbottMegan Abbott is an American author of crime fiction and of a non-fiction analysis of hardboiled crime fiction and a graduate of the University of Michigan. Her novels and short stories have drawn from and re-worked classic subgenres of crime writing, with a female twist. She has stated that she...
, Queenpin - 2009 Meg GardinerMeg GardinerMeg Gardiner is an Edgar Award-winning American crime writer, who currently lives in the United Kingdom. Her best-known books are the Evan Delaney novels...
, China Lake
See also
- Edgar AwardEdgar AwardThe Edgar Allan Poe Awards , named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America...
- Mystery Writers of AmericaMystery Writers of AmericaMystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers, based in New York.The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday....
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