Books

Book Award Winners

Award	Years	Description
Agatha Awards	1989-1999	Celebrates "mysteries of manner." -- a book's plot must unfold within a confined setting, its characters must know each other, its hero or heroine must be an amateur sleuth, and it must contain no explicit sex or violence
Anthony Awards	1986-1999	In memory of mystery writer and critic William Anthony Parker White (a.k.a. Anthony Boucher)
CWA Daggers	1998
Edgar Awards	1954-1999	Honor the best in mystery fiction and nonfiction (named in honor of Edgar Allan Poe)
Arthur Ellis Awards	1998
Hammett Award	1998
Macavity Awards	1987-1999	Presented annually by Mystery Readers International in four categories: Best Mystery Novel, Best First Mystery Novel, Best Critical/Biographical Work, and Best Mystery Short Story(Named after the mystery cat in T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats)
Shamus Awards	1982-1999	Honor excellence in the private eye genre of mystery writing

We appreciate your feedback on our site, in order to make it better for you. Please send us an e-mail at feedback@bestonly.com