1969

Best Novel: A Case of Need, by Jeffrey Hudson.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Silver Street, by E. Richard Johnson.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Bait, by Dorothy Uhnak.
Best Short Story: The Man Who Fooled the World, by Warner Law. (in Saturday Evening Post, August 24, 1968).
Grand Master: John Creasey

1968

Best Novel: God Save the Mark, by Donald E. Westlake.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): Act of Fear, by Michael Collins.
Best Short Story: The Oblong Room, by Edward D. Hoch (in The Saint, July, 1967).
Grand Master: no award

1967

Best Novel: The King of the Rainy Country, by Nicholas Freeling.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Cold War Swap, by Ross Thomas.
Best Short Story: The Chosen One, by Rhys Davies (in The New Yorker,). June 4, 1966).
Grand Master: Baynard Kendrick

1966

Best Novel: The Quiller Memorandum, by Adam Hall.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): In the Heat of the Night, by John Ball.
Best Short Story: The Possibility of Evil, by Shirley Jackson. (in The Saturday Evening Post, December 18, 1965).
Grand Master: Georges Simenon.

1965

Best Novel: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John le Carré.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): Friday the Rabbi Slept Late, by Harry Kemelman.
Best Short Story: H as in Homicide, by Lawrence Treat ( in EQ, March, 1964).
Grand Master: no award

1964

Best Novel: The Light of Day, by Eric Ambler.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): Florentine Finish, by Cornelius Hirschberg.
Best Short Story: Man Gehorcht, by Leslie Ann Browning (in Story Magazine, January-February, 1963).
Grand Master: George Harmon Coxe

1963

Best Novel: Death and the Joyful Woman, by Ellis Peters.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Fugitive, by Robert L. Fish.
Best Short Story: The Sailing Club, by David Ely (in Cosmoplitan, October, 1962).
Grand Master: John Dickson Carr

1962

Best Novel: Gideon's Fire, by J. J. Marric.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Green Stone, by Suzanne Blanc.
Best Short Story: Affair at Lahore Cantonment, by Avram Davidson (in EQ, June, 1961).
Grand Master: Erle Stanley Gardner

1961

Best Novel: The Progress of a Crime, by Julian Symons.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Man in the Cage, by John Holbrooke.
Best Short Story: Tiger, by John Durham (in Cosmopolitan, February, 1960).
Grand Master: Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee)

1960

Best Novel: The Hours Before Dawn, by Celia Fremlin.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Grey Flannel Shroud, by Henry Slesar.
Best Short Story: The Landlady, by Roald Dahl (in The New Yorker, November, 1959).
Grand Master: no award

1959

Best Novel: The Eighth Circle, by Stanley Ellin.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Bright Road to Fear, by Richard Martin Stern.
Best Short Story: Over There, Darkness, by William O'Farrell.
Grand Master: Rex Stout.

1958

Best Novel: Room to Swing, by Ed Lacy.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): Knock and Wait a While, by William Rawle Weeks.
Best Short Story: The Secret of the Bottle, by Gerald Kersh (in Saturday Evening Post, December 7, 1957).
Grand Master: Vincent Starrett.

1957

Best Novel: A Dram of Poison, by Charlotte Armstrong.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): Rebecca's Pride, by Donald McNutt Douglas.
Best Short Story: The Blessington Method, by Stanley Ellin (in EQ, June, 1956).

1956

Best Novel: Beast in View, by Margaret Millar.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Perfectionist, by Lane Kauffman.
Best Short Story: Dream No More, by Philip MacDonald (in EQ, November, 1955).

1955

Best Novel: The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler.
Best First Mystery Novel (American): Go, Lovely Rose, by Jean Potts.
Best Short Story: The House Party, by Stanley Ellin.
Grand Master: Agatha Christie (first award)

1954

Best Novel: Beat Not the Bones, by Charlotte Jay
Best First Mystery Novel (American): A Kiss Before Dying, by Ira Levin.
Short Story Award: Collection: Someone Like You, by Roald Dahl.

1953

Best First Mystery Novel (American): Don't Cry for Me, by William Campbell Gault.
Short Story Award: Collection: Something to Hide, by Philip MacDonald.

1952

Best First Mystery Novel (American): Strangle Hold, by Mary McMullen.
Short Story Award: Collection: Fancies and Goodnights, by John Collier.

1951

Best First Mystery Novel (American): Nightmare in Manhattan, by Thomas Walsh.
Short Story Award: Collection: Diagnosis: Homicide, by Lawrence G. Blochman.

1950

Best First Mystery Novel (American): What a Body, by Alan Green.
Short Story Award: Ellery Queen, for ten years of service through EQ magazine.

1949

Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Room Upstairs, by Mildred Davis.
Short Story Award: William Irish, for sustained excellence in short story writing and collections: Deadman Blues and The Blue Ribbon.

1948

Best First Mystery Novel (American): The Fabulous Clipjoint, by Fredric Brown.
Short Story Award: Ellery Queen, for anthology and magazine editing.