2005

Best Novel: California Girl, by T. Jefferson Parker (2004).
Best First Mystery Novel (American): Country of Origin, by Don Lee (2004).
Best Original Paperback: The Confession, by Domenic Stansberry (2004).
Best Short Story: Something About a Scar, by Laurie Lynn Drummond (Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You, 2004).
Robert L. Fish Memorial: Can't Catch Me, by Thomas Morrissey (Brooklyn Noir, 2004).
Ellery Queen Award: Carolyn Marino
Best Critical/Biographical Work: The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories, by Leslie S. Kliner (2004).
Best Fact Crime: Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder: A Reporter and a Detective's Twenty-Year Search for Justice, by Leonard Lovett (2004).
Special Edgar: David Chase, writer/producer The Sopranos, The Rockford Files, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and others (TV Series).
Special Edgar: Tom Fontana, writer/producer Homicide: Life on the Street, Oz, The Jury, and others (TV Series).
Grand Master: Marcia Muller

2004

Best Novel: Resurrection Men, by Ian Rankin (2003).
Best First Mystery Novel (American): Death of a Nationalist, by Rebecca Pawel (2003).
Best Original Paperback: Find Me Again, by Sylvia Maultash Warsh (2003).
Best Short Story: The Maids, by G. Miki Hayden (Blood on Their Hands, 2003).
Robert L. Fish Memorial: The Grass is Always Greener, by Sandy Balzo (Ellery Queen, March, 2003).
Best Critical/Biographical Work: Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith, by Andrew Wilson (2003).
Best Screenplay: Dirty Pretty Things, by Steve Knight (2003).
Special Edgar: HBO, for The Sopranos, Oz, and The Wire.
Best Fact Crime: The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson (2003).
Best Young Adult: Acceleration, by Graham McNamee (2003).
Grand Master: Joseph Wambaugh

2003

Best Novel: Winter and Night, by S. J. Rozan (2002).
Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Blue Edge of Midnight, by Jonathon King (2002).
Best Original Paperback: Out of Sight, by T. J. MacGregor (2002).
Best Short Story: Mexican Gatsby, by Raymond Steiber (Ellery Queen, #727, March, 2002).
Robert L. Fish Memorial: War Can Be Murder, by Mike Doogan (Mysterious North Anthology, 2002).
Ellery Queen Award: Ed Gorman
Best Critical/Biographical Work: The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction, by Mike Ashley (2002).
Best Fact Crime: Fire Lover, by Joseph Wambaugh (2002).
Special Edgar: Dick Wolf, creator of Law and Order (TV Series).
Grand Master: Ira Levin

2002

Best Novel: Silent Joe, by T. Jefferson Parker (2001).
Best First Mystery Novel (American): Line of Vision, by David Ellis (2001).
Best Original Paperback: Adios Muchachos, by Daniel Chavarria (2001).
Best Fact Crime: Son of a Grifter, by Kent Walker with Mark Schone (2001).
Best Short Story: Double-Crossing Delancy, by S. J. Rozan (2001).
Robert L. Fish Memorial: My Bonnie Lies, by Ted Hertel Jr. (Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, 2001).
Ellery Queen Award: Janet Hutchings (Ellery Queen) and Cathleen Jordan (Alfred Hitchcock)
Mary Higgins Clark Award: Summer of Storms, by Judith Kelman (2001).
Best Critical/Biographical Work: Edgar Allen Poe: A to Z, by Dawn B. Sova (2001).
Special Edgar: Blake Edwards
Grand Master: Robert B. Parker

2001

Best Novel: The Bottoms, by Joe R. Lansdale (2000).
Best First Mystery Novel (American): A Conspiracy of Paper, by David Liss (2000).
Best Original Paperback: The Black Maria, by Mark Graham (2000).
Best Short Story: Missing in Action, by Peter Robinson (Ellery Queen, #711, November, 2000).
Robert L. Fish Memorial: The Witch and the Relic Thief, by M. J. Jones (Alfred Hitchcock, October, 2000).
Ellery Queen Award: Douglas Greene (Crippen & Landru)
Best Critical/Biographical Work: England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter: Conundrums for the Long Weekend, by Robert Kuhn MacGregor and Ethan Lewis (2000).
Best Movie: Traffic, screenplay by Stephen Gaghan (2000).
Mary Higgins Clark Award: Authorized Personnel Only, by Barbara D'Amato (2000).
Grand Master: Edward D. Hoch
Special Award: Mildred Wirt Benson (original Carolyn Keene, author of 23 Nancy Drew mysteries)

2000

Best Novel: Bones, by Jan Burke (1999).
Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Skull Mantra, by Eliot Pattison (1999).
Best Original Paperback: Fulton County Blues, by Ruth Birmingham (1999).
Best Short Story: Heroes, by Anne Perry (Murder and Obsession, 1999).
Robert L. Fish Memorial: Cro-Magnon, P.I., by Mike Reiss (AH, July-August, 1999).
Ellery Queen Award: Susanne Kirk
Best Critical/Biographical Work: Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle, by Daniel Stashower (1999).
Grand Master: Mary Higgins Clark

1999

Best Novel: Mr. White's Confession, by Robert Clark.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): A Cold Day in Paradise, by Steve Hamilton.
Best Original Paperback: The Widower's Two-Step, by Rick Riordan.
Best Short Story: Poachers, by Tom Franklin (in The Texas Review, Fall-Winter, 1998).
Robert L. Fish Memorial: Clarity, by Bryn Bonner (in Ellery Queen, #681, May, 1998).
Ellery Queen Award: Sara Ann Freed
Best Movie: Out of Sight, screenplay by Scott Frank.
Grand Master: P. D. James

1998

Best Novel: Cimarron Rose, by James Lee Burke (1997).
Best First Mystery Novel (American): Los Alamos, by Joseph Kanon.
Best Original Paperback: Charm City, by Laura Lippman.
Best Short Story: Keller on the Spot, by Lawrence Block (in Playboy, November, 1997.)
Robert L. Fish Memorial: If Thine Eye Offend Thee, by Rosalind Roland (in Murder X 13)
Ellery Queen Award: Hiroshi Hayakawa
Grand Master: Barbara Mertz (aka Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels)

1997

Best Novel: The Chatham School Affair, by Thomas H. Cook.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): Simple Justice, by John Morgan Wilson.
Best Original Paperback: Fade Away, by Harlan Coben.
Best Short Story: Red Clay, by Michael Malone (in Murder for Love, 1996.)
Robert L. Fish Memorial: The Prosecutor of DuPrey, by David Vaughn.
Ellery Queen Award: François Guérif
Grand Master: Ruth Rendell.

1996

Best Novel: Come to Grief, by Dick Francis (1995).
Best First Mystery Novel (American): Penance, by David Housewright.
Best Original Paperback: Tarnished BLue, by William Heffernan.
Best Short Story: The Judge's Boy, by Jean B. Cooper.
Robert L. Fish Memorial: The Word for Breaking August Sky, by James Sarafin.
Ellery Queen Award: Jacques Barzun
Best Motion Picture: The Usual Suspects, directed by Bryan Singer, screenplay by Christopher Mcquarrie (1995).
Grand Master: Dick Francis

1995

Best Novel: The Red Scream, by Mary Willis Walker.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Caveman's Valentine, by George Dawes Green.
Best Original Paperback: Final Appeal, by Lisa Scottoline.
Best Short Story: The Dancing Bear, by Doug Allyn.
Robert L. Fish Memorial: Me and Mr. Henry, by Batya Swift Yasgur.
Ellery Queen Award: Martin Greenberg
Best Critical/Biographical Work: Encyclopedia Mysteriosa, by William L. DeAndrea.
Grand Master: Mickey Spillane

1994

Best Novel: The Sculptress, by Minette Walters.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): A Grave Talent, by Laurie King.
Best Original Paperback: Dead Folk's Blues, by Steven Womack.
Best Short Story: Keller's Therapy, by Lawrence Block (in Playboy, May, 1993).
Robert L. Fish Memorial: Wicked Twist, by D. A. McGuire (in AH, October, 1993).
Ellery Queen Award: Otto Penzler
Best Critical/Biographical Work: The Saint: A Complete History, by Burl Barer.
Grand Master: Lawrence Block.

1993

Best Novel: Bootlegger's Daughter, by Margaret Maron (1992).
Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Black Echo, by Michael Connelly (1992).
Best Original Paperback: A Cold Day for Murder, by Dana Stabenow.
Best Short Story: Mary, Mary, Shut the Door, by Benjamin M. Schutz.
Robert L. Fish Memorial: A Will Is a Way, by Steven Saylor.
Ellery Queen Award: no award
Grand Master: Donald E. Westlake.

1992

Best Novel: A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, by Lawrence Block.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): Slow Motion Riot, by Peter Blauner.
Best Original Paperback: Dark Maze, by Thomas Adcock.
Best Short Story: Nine Sons, by Wendy Hornsby (in Sisters in Crime 4, 1991).
Robert L. Fish Memorial: no award
Ellery Queen Award: Margaret Norton
Grand Master: Elmore Leonard.

1991

Best Novel: New Orleans Mourning, by Julie Smith.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): Postmortem, by Patricia D. Cornwell.
Best Original Paperback: The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald, by David Handler.
Best Short Story: Elvis Lives, by Lynne Barrett (in EQ, September, 1990).
Robert L. Fish Memorial: Willie's Story, by Jerry F. Skarky.
Ellery Queen Award: no award
Grand Master: Tony Hillerman.

1990

Best Novel: Black Cherry Blues, by James Lee Burke (1989).
Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Last Billable Hour, by Susan Wolfe.
Best Original Paperback: The Rain, by Keith Peterson.
Best Short Story: Too Many Crooks, by Donald E. Westlake (in Playboy, August, 1989).
Robert L. Fish Memorial: Hawks, by Connie Colt.
Ellery Queen Award: Joel Davis
Grand Master: Helen McCloy.

1989

Best Novel: A Cold Red Sunrise, by Stuart M. Kaminsky.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): Carolina Skeletons, by David Stout.
Best Original Paperback: The Telling of Lies, by Timothy Findley.
Best Short Story: Flicks, by Bill Crenshaw (in AH, August, 1988).
Robert L. Fish Memorial: Different Drummers, by Linda O. Johnston.
Ellery Queen Award: Richard Levinson and William Link
Grand Master: Hillary Waugh.

1988

Best Novel: Old Bones, by Aaron Elkins.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): Death Among Strangers, by Deidre S. Laiken.
Best Original Paperback: Bimbos of the Death Sun, by Sharyn McCrumb.
Best Short Story: Soft Monkey, by Harlan Ellison (in Mystery Scene Reader #1, 1987).
Robert L. Fish Memorial: Roger, Mr. Whilkie! by Eric M. Heideman.
Ellery Queen Award: Ruth Cavin
Grand Master: Phyllis A. Whitney.

1987

Best Novel: A Dark-Adapted Eye, by Barbara Vine.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): No One Rides for Free, by Larry Beinhart.
Best Original Paperback: The Junkyard Dog, by Robert Campbell.
Best Short Story: Rain in Pinton County, by Robert Sampson (in New Black Mask, May, 1986).
Robert L. Fish Memorial: Father to the Man, by Mary Kittredge.
Ellery Queen Award: Eleanor Sullivan
Grand Master: Michael Gilbert.

1986

Best Novel: The Suspect, by L. R. Wright.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): When the Bough Breaks, by Jonathan Kellerman.
Best Original Paperback: Pigs Get Fat, by Warren Murphy.
Best Short Story: Ride the Lightning, by John Lutz (in AH, January, 1985).
Robert L. Fish Memorial: Final Rites, by Doug Allyn.
Ellery Queen Award: no award
Grand Master: Ed McBain.

1985

Best Novel: Briarpatch, by Ross Thomas.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): Strike Three, You're Dead, by R. D. Rosen.
Best Original Paperback: Grandmaster, by Warren Murphy and Molly Cochran.
Best Short Story: By the Dawn's Early Light, by Lawrence Block (in Playboy, August, 1984).
Robert L. Fish Memorial: Poor Dumb Mouths, by Bill Crenshaw.
Ellery Queen Award: Joan Kahn
Grand Master: Dorothy Salibury Davis.

1984

Best Novel: La Brava, by Elmore Leonard.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Bay Psalm Book Murder, by Will Harriss.
Best Original Paperback: Mrs. White, by Margaret Tracy.
Best Short Story: The New Girlfriend, by Ruth Rendell.
Robert L. Fish Memorial: Locked Doors, Lilly Carlson. (first award)
Ellery Queen Award: no award
Grand Master: John le Carré

1983

Best Novel: Billingsgate Shoal, by Rick Boyer.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Butcher's Boy, by Thomas Perry.
Best Original Paperback: Triangle, by Teri White.
Best Short Story: There Are No Snakes in Ireland, by Frederick Forsyth (No Comebacks, 1982; EQ, #487, January, 1984).
Ellery Queen Award: Emma Lathen (Mary Jane Latsis and Martha Henissart)
Grand Master: Margaret Millar.

1982

Best Novel: Peregrine, by William Bayer (1981).
Best First Mystery Novel (American): Chiefs, by Stuart Woods (1981).
Best Original Paperback: The Old Dick, by L. A. Morse (1981).
Best Short Story: The Absence of Emily, by Jack Ritchie (in EQ, January, 1981).
Grand Master: Julian Symons.

1981

Best Novel: Whip Hand, by Dick Francis.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Watcher, by K. Nolte Smith.
Best Original Paperback: Public Murders, by Bill Granger.
Best Short Story: Horn Man, by Clark Howard (in EQ, July, 1980).
Grand Master: Stanley Ellin.

1980

Best Novel: The Rheingold Route, by Arthur Maling.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Lasko Tangent, by Richard North Patterson.
Best Original Paperback: The Hog Murders, by William L. DeAndrea (1979).
Best Short Story: Armed and Dangerous, by Geoffrey Norman (in Esquire, March, 1979).
Grand Master: W. R. Burnett.

1979

Best Novel: The Eye of the Needle, by Ken Follett.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): Killed in the Ratings, by William L. DeAndrea (1978).
Best Original Paperback: Deceit and Deadly Lies, by Frank Bandy.
Best Short Story: The Cloud Beneath the Eaves, by Barbara Owens (in EQ, January, 1978).
Grand Master: Aaron Marc Stein

1978

Best Novel: Catch Me: Kill Me, by William H. Hallhan.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): A French Finish, by Robert Ross.
Best Original Paperback: The Quark Maneuver, by Mike Jahn.
Best Short Story: Chance after Chance, by Thomas Walsh (in EQ, November, 1977).
Grand Master: Daphne du Maurier, Dorothy B. Hughes, and Ngaio Marsh

1977

Best Novel: Promised Land, by Robert B. Parker.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Thomas Berryman Number, by James Patterson.
Best Original Paperback: Confess, Fletch, by Gregory Mcdonald.
Best Short Story: Like a Terrible Scream, by Etta Revesz (in EQ, May, 1976).
Grand Master: no award

1976

Best Novel: Hopscotch by Brian Garfield.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Alvarez Journal, by Rex Burns.
Best Original Paperback: Autopsy, by John R. Feegel.
Best Short Story: The Jail, by Jesse Hill Ford.
Grand Master: Graham Greene

1975

Best Novel: Peter's Pence, by Jon Cleary.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): Fletch, by Gregory Mcdonald.
Best Original Paperback: The Corpse That Walked, by Roy Winsor.
Best Short Story: The Fallen Curtain, by Ruth Rendell.
Grand Master: Eric Ambler

1974

Best Novel: Dance Hall of the Dead, by Tony Hillerman.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Billion Dollar Sure Thing, by Paul E. Erdman.
Best Original Paperback: Death of an Informer, by Will Perry.
Best Short Story: The Whimper of Whipped Dogs, by Harlan Ellison.
Grand Master: Ross Macdonald

1973

Best Novel: The Lingala Code, by Warren Kiefer.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): Squaw Point, by R. H. Shimer.
Best Original Paperback: The Invader, by Richard Wormser.
Best Short Story: The Purple Shroud, by Joyce Harrington.
Grand Masters: Alfred Hitchcock & Judson Philips.

1972

Best Novel: The Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): Finding Maubee, by A. H. Z. Carr.
Best Original Paperback: For Murder I Charge More, by Frank McAuliffe.
Best Short Story: Moonlight Gardener, by Robert L. Fish.
Grand Master: John D. MacDonald.

1971

Best Novel: The Laughing Policeman, by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Anderson Tapes, by Lawrence Sanders.
Best Original Paperback: Flashpoint, by Dan J. Marlowe.
Best Short Story: In the Forests of Riga the Beasts Are Very Wild, by Margery Finn Brown (in McCall's, July, 1970).
Grand Master: Mignon G. Eberhart.

1970

Best Novel: Forfeit, by Dick Francis.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): A Time for Predators, by Joe Gores.
Best Original Paperback: The Dragon's Eye, by Scott C. S. Stone. (first award)
Best Short Story: Goodbye, Pops, by Joe Gores (in EQ, December, 1969).
Grand Master: James M. Cain