2002

Gold Dagger: Jose Carlos Samoza for The Athenian Murders (2001).
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: Lillian Pizzichini for Dead Man's Wages (2001).
Silver Dagger: James Crumley for The Final Country (2001).
Steel Dagger (Ian Fleming Prize): John Creed for The Sirius Crossing (2001).
Ellis Peters Historical Dagger: Sarah Waters for Fingersmith (2001).
CWA Debut Dagger: Ilona van Mil for Sugarmilk Falls (2001).
John Creasey Award: Louise Welsh for The Cutting Room (2001).
Dagger in the Library/Golden Handcuffs: Peter Robinson for The Inspector Banks series (2001).
CWA/The Macallan Short Story Award: Stella Duffy for Martha Grace, in Tart Noir (2001).
Diamond Dagger: Sara Paretsky

2001

Gold Dagger: Henning Mankell for Sidetracked (2000).
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: Philip Etienne, Martin Maynoard, and Tony Thompson for The Infiltrators (2000).
Silver Dagger: Giles Blunt for Forty Words for Sorrow (2000).
Ellis Peters Historical Dagger: Andrew Taylor for The Office of the Dead (2000).
CWA Debut Dagger: Edward Wright for Clea's Moon (2000).
John Creasey Award: Susanna Jones for The Earthquake Bird (2000).
CWA/The Macallan Short Story Award: Marion Arnott for Prussian Snowdrops in Crimewave 4, 2000.
Diamond Dagger: Lionel Davidson

2000

Gold Dagger: Jonathan Lethem for Motherless Brooklyn (1999).
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: Edward Bunker for Mr. Blue.
Silver Dagger: Donna Leon for Friends in High Places.
Ellis Peters Historical Dagger: Gillian Linscott for Absent Friends.
CWA Debut Dagger: Simon Levak for A Flowery Death (1999).
John Creasey Award: Boston Teran for God Is a Bullet.
CWA/The Macallan Short Story Award: Denise Mina for Helena and the Babies, in Fresh Blood 3, 1999.
Diamond Dagger: Peter Lovesey

1999

Gold Dagger: Robert Wilson for A Small Death in Lisbon.
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: Brian Cathcart for The Case of Stephen Lawrence.
Silver Dagger: Adrian Matthews for Vienna Blood.
Ellis Peters Historical Dagger: Lindsey Davis for Two for the Lions.
CWA Debut Dagger: Caroline Carver (Caroline Seed) for Blood Junction (1998).
John Creasey Award: Dan Fesperman for Lie in Darkness.
CWA/The Macallan Short Story Award: Antony Mann for Taking Care of Frank, in Crimewave 2.
Diamond Dagger: Margaret Yorke

1998

Gold Dagger: James Lee Burke for Sunset Limited.
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: Gitta Sereny for Cries Unheard.
Silver Dagger: Nicholas Blincoe for Manchester Slingback.
CWA Debut Dagger: Joolz Denby for Stone Baby (1997).
John Creasey Award: Denise Mina for Garnethill.
CWA/The Macallan Short Story Award: Jerry Sykes for Roots, in Mean Times.
New Writing Competition: Julie Denby for Stone Baby.
Diamond Dagger: Ed McBain

1997

Gold Dagger: Ian Rankin for Black & Blue.
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: Paul Britton for The Jigsaw Man.
Silver Dagger: Janet Evanovich for Three to Get Deadly.
John Creasey Award: Paul Johnston for Body Politic.
CWA/The Macallan Short Story Award: Reginald Hill for On the Psychiatrist's Couch, in Whydunnit (1996).
Diamond Dagger: Colin Dexter

1996

Gold Dagger: Ben Elton for Popcorn.
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: Antonia Fraser for The Gunpowder Plot.
Silver Dagger: Peter Lovesey for Bloodhounds.
John Creasey Award: no award
Last Laugh Award: Janet Evanovich for Two for the Dough.
Dagger in the Library/Golden Handcuffs: Marian Babson
CWA/The Macallan Short Story Award: Ian Rankin for Herbert in Motion, in EQ, #673-#674, September-October, 1997.
First Blood Award for Best First Crime Novel: Christopher Brookmyre for Quite Ugly One Morning.
Rusty Dagger: Dorothy L. Sayers for The Nine Tailors (1930).
Diamond Dagger: H. R. F. Keating

1995

Gold Dagger: Val McDermid for The Mermaids Singing.
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: Michael Harris for The Prodigal Husband.
Silver Dagger: Peter Lovesey for The Summons.
John Creasey Award: Janet Evanovich for One for the Money.
Last Laugh Award: Laurence Shames for Sunburn.
Dagger in the Library/Golden Handcuffs: Lindsey Davis
CWA/The Macallan Short Story Award: Larry Beinhart for Funny Story, in No Alibi (1994).
Diamond Dagger: Reginald Hill.

1994

Gold Dagger: Minette Walters for The Scold's Bride.
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: David Canter for Criminal Shadows.
Silver Dagger:
John Creasey Award: Doug J. Swanson for Big Town.
Last Laugh Award:
Dagger in the Library/Golden Handcuffs: Robert Barnard
CWA/The Macallan Short Story Award:
Diamond Dagger: Michael Gilbert.

1993

Gold Dagger: Patricia D. Cornwell for Cruel and Unusual.
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: Alexandra Artley for Murder in the Heart.
Silver Dagger: Susan Dunant for Fatlands.
John Creasey Award: none
Last Laugh Award: Michael Pearce for The Mamur Zapt & The Spoils of Egypt.
CWA/The Macallan Short Story Award: Julian Rathbone for Some Sunny Day.
Diamond Dagger: Edith Pargeter (aka Ellis Peters).

1992

Gold Dagger: Colin Dexter for The Way Through the Woods.
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: Charles Nicholl for The Reckoning.
Silver Dagger: Liza Cody for Bucket Nut.
John Creasey Award: Minette Walters for The Ice House (1991).
Last Laugh Award: Carl Hiaasen for Native Tongue.
CWA '92 Award: Timothy Williams for Black August.
Diamond Dagger: Leslie Charteris.

1991

Gold Dagger: Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) for King Solomon's Carpet.
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: John Bossy for Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair.
Silver Dagger: Frances Fyfield for Deep Sleep.
John Creasey Award: Walter Mosley for Devil in the Blue Dress (1990).
Last Laugh Award: Mike Ripley for Angels in Arms.
CWA '92 Award: Barbara Wilson for Gaudi Afternoon.
Diamond Dagger: Ruth Rendell.

1990

Gold Dagger: Reginald Hill for Bones and Silence.
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: Jonathan Goodman for The Passing of Starr Faithfull.
Silver Dagger: Mike Phillips for The Late Candidate.
John Creasey Award: Patricia D. Cornwell for Postmortem.
Last Laugh Award: Simon Shaw for Killer Cinderella.
CWA '92 Award: Michael Dibdin for Vendetta.
Diamond Dagger: Julian Symons.

1989

Gold Dagger: Colin Dexter for The Wench Is Dead.
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: Robert Lindsey for A Gathering of Saints.
Silver Dagger: Desmond Lowden for The Shadow Run.
John Creasey Award: Annette Roome for A Real Shot in the Arm.
Last Laugh Award: Mike Ripley for Angel Touch.
CWA/The Macallan Short Story Award: none
Red Herring Special Awards: Glyn Hardwicke (constitution) and John Kennedy Melling (editing The Crime Writers' Practical Handbook).
Diamond Dagger: Dick Francis.

1988

Gold Dagger: Michael Dibdin for Ratking.
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: Bernard Wasserstein for The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln.
Silver Dagger: Sara Paretsky for Toxic Shock. (aka Blood Shot)
John Creasey Award: Janet Neel for Death's Bright Angel.
Punch Prize: Nancy Livingston for Death in a Distant Land.
Diamond Dagger: John le Carré

1987

Gold Dagger: Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) for A Fatal Inversion.
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: Bernard Taylor and Stephen Knight for Perfect Murder.
Silver Dagger: Scott Turow for Presumed Innocent.
John Creasey Award: Dennis Kilcommons for Dark Apostle.
Police Review Award: Roger Busby for Snowman.
Diamond Dagger: P. D. James.

1986

Gold Dagger: Ruth Rendell for Live Flesh.
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: John Bryson for Evil Angels.
Silver Dagger: P. D. James for A Taste for Death.
John Creasey Award: Neville Steed for Tinplate.
Police Review Award: Bill Knox or The Crossfire Killings.
Red Herring Special Award: Beatrice Taylor for years as Association's treasurer.
Diamond Dagger: Eric Ambler. first award

1985

Gold Dagger: Paula Gosling for Monkey Puzzle.
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: Brian Masters for Killing for Company.
Silver Dagger: Dorothy Simpson for Last Seen Alive.
John Creasey Award: Robert Richardson for The Latimer Mercy.
Red Herring Special Award: Marian Babson for magnificent secretaryship.
Police Review Award: Andrew Arncliffe for After the Holiday.

1984

Gold Dagger: B. M. Gill for The Twelfth Juror.
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: David Yallop for In God's Name.
Silver Dagger: Ruth Rendell for The Tree of Hands.
John Creasey Award: Elizabeth Ironside for A Very Private Enterprise.

1983

Gold Dagger: John Hutton for Accidental Crimes.
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: Peter Watson for Double Deale.
Silver Dagger: William McIlvanney for The Papers of Tony Veitch.
John Creasey Award: Carol Clemeau for The Ariadne Clue, and Eric Wright for The Night the Gods Smiled.
Red Herring Special Award: F. E. Pardoe for serving on the fiction panel.

1982

Gold Dagger: Peter Lovesey for The False Inspector Dew.
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: John Cornwell for Earth to Earth.
Silver Dagger: S. T. Haymon for Ritual Murder.
John Creasey Award: Andrew Taylor for Caroline Minuscule.

1981

Gold Dagger: Martin Cruz Smith for Gorky Park.
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: Jacobo Timerman for Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number.
Silver Dagger: Colin Dexter for The Dead of Jericho.
John Creasey Award: James Leigh for The Ludi Victor.
Red Herring Special Award: Martin Russell for editing Red Herrings.

1980

Gold Dagger: H. R. F. Keating, for The Murder of the Maharajah.
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: Anthony Summers for Conspiracy.
Silver Dagger: Ellis Peters for Monk's Hood.
John Creasey Award: Liza Cody for Dupe.
Special Silver Dagger: Elizabeth Ferrars

1979

Gold Dagger: Dick Francis for Whip Hand.
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: Shirley Green for Rachman.
Silver Dagger: Colin Dexter for Service of All the Dead.
Nonfiction Silver Dagger: Jon Connell and Douglas Sutherland for Fraud.
John Creasey Award: David Serafin for Saturday of Glory.
Red Herring Special Award: Madelaine Duke and Frank Arthur for services to CWA.

1978

Gold Dagger: Lionel Davidson for The Chelsea Murders.
Nonfiction Gold Dagger: Audrey Williamson for The Mystery of the Princes. first such award
Silver Dagger: Peter Lovesey for Waxwork.
Nonfiction Silver Dagger: Harry Hawkes for The Capture of the Black Panther.
John Creasey Award: Paula Gosling for A Running Duck.
Red Herring Special Awards: Alberto Tedeschi of Mondadori Publishers, Italy, Frederic Dannay, and Nigel Morlan for services to crime fiction.

1977

Gold Dagger: John le Carré for The Honourable Schoolboy.
Silver Dagger: William McIlvanney for Laidlaw.
John Creasey Award: Jonathan Gash for The Judas Pair.

1976

Gold Dagger: Ruth Rendell for A Demon in My View.
Silver Dagger: James McClure for Rogue Eagle.
John Creasey Award: Patrick Alexander for Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal.

1975

Gold Dagger: Nicholas Meyer for The Seven Per Cent Solution.
Silver Dagger: P. D. James for The Black Tower.
John Creasey Award: Sara George for Acid Drop.
Special Awards: Gladys Mitchell for fifty outstanding book, Anne Britton for editing Red Herrings, Jean Bosden and Penelope Wallace for service for the first Crime Writers' International Congress.

1974

Gold Dagger: Anthony Price for Other Paths to Glory.
Silver Dagger: Francis Clifford for The Grosvenor Square Goodbye.
John Creasey Award: Roger Simon for The Big Fix.

1973

Gold Dagger: Robert Littell for The Defection of A. J. Lewinter.
Silver Dagger: Gwendoline Butler for A Coffin for Pandora.
John Creasey Award: Kyril Bonfiglioli for Don't Point That Thing at Me.

1972

Gold Dagger: Eric Ambler for The Levanter.
Silver Dagger: Victor Canning for The Rainbird Pattern.

1971

Gold Dagger: James McClure for The Steam Pig.
Silver Dagger: P. D. James for Shroud for a Nightingale.
Special Award: Alex Clark Smith for serving as treasurer.

1970

Gold Dagger: Joan Fleming for Young Man, I Think You're Dying.
Silver Dagger: Anthony Price for The Labyrinth Makers.
Special Award: Gavin Lyall for editing Crime Background pamphlets.

1969

Gold Dagger: Peter Dickson for A Pride of Heroes.
Silver Dagger: Francis Clifford for Another Way of Dying. first such award
Best Foreign: Rex Stout for The Father Hunt.

1968

Gold Dagger: Peter Dickinson for Skin Deep.
Runner-Up: Nicholas Blake for The Private Wound.
Best Foreign: Sebastien Japrisot for The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun.

1967

Gold Dagger: Emma Lathen for Murder Against the Grain.
Runner-Up: Colin Watson for Lonelyheart 4122.
Best British: Eric Ambler for Dirty Story.
Special Award: Charles Franklin for editing Crime Writer.

1966

Gold Dagger: Lionel Davidson for A Long Way to Shiloh.
Runner-up: John Bingham for The Double Agent.
Best Foreign: John Ball for In the Heat of the Night.
Special Merit Award: Julian Symons for Crime and Detection: An Illustrated History from 1840.

1965

Gold Dagger: Ross Macdonald for The Far Side of the Dollar.
Best British: Gavin Lyall for Midnight Plus One.

1964

Gold Dagger: H. R. F. Keating, for The Perfect Murder.
Best Foreign: Patricia Highsmith for The Two Faces of January.
Special Merit: Herbert Harris for editing Red Herrings.

1963

Gold Dagger: John le Carré for The Spy Who Came In from the Cold.
Special Merit Award: Allan Prior for television crime screenplays.

1962

Gold Dagger: Joan Fleming for When I Grow Rich.

1961

Gold Dagger: Mary Kelly for The Spoilt Kill.
Special Merit Award: Berkley Mather for television crime screenplays.

1960

Gold Dagger: Lionel Davidson for The Night of Wenceslas.
Runners-Up: Mary Stewart and Julian Symons.

1959

Gold Dagger: Eric Ambler for Passage of Arms.
Runners-Up: James Mitchell and Menna Gallie.
Special Merit Awards: Roy Vickers for contributions to crime fiction and Janet Green for the script of Sapphire.

1958

Gold Dagger: Margot Bennett for Someone from the Past.
Runners-Up: Margery Allingham, James Byrom, and John Sherwood.

1957

Gold Dagger: Julian Symons for The Colour of Murder.
Runners-Up: Nagaio Marsh, George Milner, and Douglas Rutherford.

1956

Gold Dagger: Edward Grierson for The Second Man.
Runners-Up: Sarah Gainham, Arthur Upfield, and J. J. Marric (aka John Creasey).

1955

Gold Dagger: Winston Graham for The Little Walls.
Runners-Up: Leigh Howard, Ngaio Marsh, and Margot Bennett.