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1959 |
Best Short Story |
Over There, Darkness |
William O'Farrell |
Sleuth |
Volume: October '58 |
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1959 |
Book Jacket Award |
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Western Printing & Lithographing Co. |
Comment: for Dell book jackets |
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1959 |
Special Edgars |
American Murder Ballads |
Olive Wooley Burt |
Oxford University Press |
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1959 |
The Grand Master |
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Rex Stout |
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1959 |
The Raven Award |
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Lawrence G. Blochman |
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Comment: for long and distinguished service to MWA and The Third Degree |
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1959 |
The Raven Award |
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Frederic G. Melcher |
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Comment: on his retirement after 35 years with Publishers Weekly |
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1959 |
The Raven Award |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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Comment: (posthumous) Reader of the Year, accepted by Eleanor Roosevelt |
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1958 |
Best Motion Picture |
Twelve Angry Men |
Reginald Rose |
Orion/Nova |
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1958 |
Best Novel |
Room to Swing |
Ed Lacy |
Harper |
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1958 |
Best Radio Drama |
The Galindez-Murphy Case: A Chronicle of Terror |
Jay MacMullen |
CBS |
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1958 |
Best Short Story |
The Secret of the Bottle |
Gerald Kersh |
Saturday Evening Post |
Volume: December 7 '57 |
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1958 |
Book Jacket Award |
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Harper Bros. |
Comment: for general excellence |
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1958 |
Book Jacket Award |
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Dell |
Comment: for their Great Mystery Series book jackets |
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1958 |
The Grand Master |
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Vincent Starrett |
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1958 |
Best Episode in a TV Series |
Mechanical Manhunt |
Harold Swanton |
NBC-TV |
Series: Alcoa Hour |
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1958 |
Best Fact Crime |
The D.A.'s Man |
Harold R. Danforth, James D. Horan |
Crown |
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1958 |
Best First Novel |
Knock and Wait a While |
William Rawle Weeks |
Houghton Mifflin |
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1957 |
Best Episode in a TV Series |
The Fine Art of Murder |
Sidney Carroll |
ABC |
Series: Omnibus |
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1957 |
Best Fact Crime |
Night Fell on Georgia |
Charles Samuels, Louise Samuels |
Dell |
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1957 |
Best First Novel |
Rebecca's Pride |
Donald McNutt Douglass |
Harper |
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1957 |
Best Novel |
A Dram of Poison |
Charlotte Armstrong |
Coward-McCann |
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1957 |
Best Short Story |
The Blessington Method |
Stanley Ellin |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
Volume: June '56 |
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1957 |
Book Jacket Award |
Inspector Maigret and the Burglar's Wife |
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Doubleday |
Comment: hardcover |
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1957 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
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Curtis W. Casewit |
Denver Post |
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1957 |
Special Edgars |
Compulsion |
Meyer Levin |
Simon & Schuster |
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1957 |
The Raven Award |
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Dorothy Kilgallen |
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Comment: Reader of the Year |
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1956 |
Best Episode in a TV Series |
A Taste of Honey |
Alvin Sapinsley Jr. |
ABC |
Series: Elgin Hour |
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1956 |
Best Fact Crime |
Dead and Gone |
Manly Wade Wellman |
University of North Carolina Press |
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1956 |
Best First Novel |
The Perfectionist |
Lane Kauffman |
Lippincott |
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1956 |
Best Foreign film |
Diabolique |
Henri-Georges Clouzot |
Filmsonor |
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1956 |
Best Motion Picture |
The Desperate Hours |
Joseph Hayes |
Paramount |
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1956 |
Best Novel |
Beast in View |
Margaret Millar |
Random House |
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1956 |
Best Short Story |
Dream No More |
Philip MacDonald |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
Volume: November '55 |
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1956 |
Book Jacket Award |
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Scribners |
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1955 |
Best Episode in a TV Series |
Smoke |
Gore Vidal |
CBS-TV |
Series: Suspense |
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1955 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Girl with the Scarlet Brand |
Charles Boswell, Lewis Thompson |
Fawcett |
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1955 |
Best First Novel |
Go, Lovely Rose |
Jean Potts |
Scribners |
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1955 |
Best Motion Picture |
Rear Window |
John Michael Hayes |
Paramount |
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1955 |
Best Novel |
The Long Goodbye |
Raymond Chandler |
Houghton Mifflin |
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1955 |
Best Play |
Witness for the Prosecution |
Agatha Christie |
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1955 |
Best Radio Drama |
The Tree |
Stanley Niss |
CBS |
Series: 21st Precinct |
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1955 |
Best Short Story |
The House Party |
Stanley Ellin |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
Volume: May '54 |
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1955 |
Book Jacket Award |
Berton Roueche |
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Dell |
Comment: softcover |
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1955 |
Book Jacket Award |
Eleven Blue Men |
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Little, Brown |
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1955 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
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Drexel Drake |
Chicago Tribune |
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1955 |
The Grand Master |
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Agatha Christie |
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1954 |
Best Episode in a TV Series |
Crime at Blossom's |
Jerome Ross |
CBS-TV |
Series: Studio One |
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1954 |
Best Fact Crime |
Why Did They Kill? |
John Bartlow Martin |
Ballantine |
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1954 |
Best First Novel |
A Kiss Before Dying |
Ira Levin |
Simon & Schuster |
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1954 |
Best Motion Picture |
The Big Heat |
Sidney Boehm, William P. McGivern |
Columbia |
Comment: Boehm is the screenwriter, McGivern is the author of the novel |
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1954 |
Best Novel |
Beat Not the Bones |
Charlotte Jay |
Harper |
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1954 |
Best Radio Drama |
The Shot |
E. Jack Neuman |
CBS |
Series: Suspense |
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1954 |
Best Short Story |
Someone Like You |
Roald Dahl |
Knopf |
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1954 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
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Brett Halliday |
Westport Town Crier |
Comment: and other Connecticut papers |
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1954 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
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Helen McCloy |
Westport Town Crier |
Comment: and other Connecticut papers |
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1954 |
Special Edgars |
The Frightened Wife and Other Murder Stories |
Mary Roberts Rinehart |
Rinehart & Co. |
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1954 |
The Raven Award |
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Dr. Thomas A. Gonzales |
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Comment: retiring medical examiner, New York City |
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1954 |
The Raven Award |
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Tom Lehrer |
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Comment: for his mystery parodies |
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1954 |
The Raven Award |
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Dr. Harrison Martland |
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Comment: retiring medical examiner, Essex County, New Jersey |
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1953 |
Best Episode in a TV Series |
Dragnet |
Jack Webb |
NBC-TV |
Comment: and Michael Meshekoff, Producer |
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1953 |
Best Fact Crime |
Court of Last Resort |
Erle Stanley Gardner |
Wm. Sloane Association |
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1953 |
Best First Novel |
Don't Cry for Me |
William Campbell Gault |
Dutton |
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1953 |
Best Motion Picture |
Five Fingers |
Otto Lang, Michael G. Wilson |
Twentieth Century Fox |
Comment: Lang is the producer |
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1953 |
Best Play |
Dial M for Murder |
Frederick Knott |
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1953 |
Best Radio Drama |
The Mysterious Traveler |
Robert Arthur, David Kogan |
Mutual Broadcasting System |
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1953 |
Best Short Story |
Something to Hide |
Philip MacDonald |
Doubleday |
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1953 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
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Anthony Boucher |
New York Times |
Comment: and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine |
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1953 |
The Raven Award |
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E.T. Guymon Jr |
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Comment: for his outstanding library of mystery literature |
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1952 |
Best Episode in a TV Series |
The Web |
Franklin Heller |
CBS-TV |
Comment: and Goodson-Todman, package producers of the show |
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1952 |
Best Fact Crime |
True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality |
St. Clair McKelway |
Random House |
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1952 |
Best First Novel |
Strangle Hold |
Mary McMullen |
Harper |
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1952 |
Best Motion Picture |
Detective Story |
Sidney Kingsley, Robert Wyler, Philip Yordan |
Paramount |
Comment: Kingsley wrote the stage play on which the screen version was based, Wyler and Yordan were the screenwriters |
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1952 |
Best Radio Drama |
Dragnet |
James Moser, Jack Webb |
NBC |
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1952 |
Best Short Story |
Fancies and Goodnights |
John Collier |
Doubleday |
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1952 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
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Lenore Glen Offord |
San Francisco Chronicle |
Comment: for best overall mystery reviewing |
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1952 |
Special Edgars |
Queen Quorum: The 125 Most Important Books of Detective-Crime-Mystery Short Stories |
Frederic Dannay, Manfred B. Lee |
Biblo and Tannen |
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1951 |
Best Fact Crime |
Twelve Against Crime |
Edward D. Radin |
Putnam |
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1951 |
Best First Novel |
Nightmare in Manhattan |
Thomas Walsh |
Little, Brown |
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1951 |
Best Motion Picture |
Mr. 880 |
St. Clair McKelway |
Twentieth Century Fox |
Comment: Winner of a special award as the author of the novel |
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1951 |
Best Motion Picture |
The Asphalt Jungle |
Ben Maddow |
MGM |
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1951 |
Best Radio Drama |
Dragnet |
James Moser, Jack Webb |
NBC |
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1951 |
Best Short Story |
Diagnosis: Homicide |
Lawrence G. Blochman |
Lippincott |
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1951 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
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Dorothy B. Hughes |
Albuquerque Tribune |
Comment: and Los Angeles Daily News |
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1951 |
Special Edgars |
|
W.T. Brannon |
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Comment: for general excellence in fact crime writing |
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1951 |
Special Edgars |
The Web |
Franklin Heller |
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Comment: producer/director of MWA's TV show |
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1950 |
Best Fact Crime |
Bad Company |
Joseph Henry Jackson |
Harcourt, Brace & World |
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1950 |
Best First Novel |
What A Body |
Alan Green |
Simon & Schuster |
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1950 |
Best Motion Picture |
The Window |
Mel Dinelli, Cornell Woolrich |
RKO |
Comment: Woolrich wrote the novel FIRE ESCAPE, on which the movie was based |
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1950 |
Best Play |
Detective Story |
Sidney Kingsley |
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1950 |
Best Radio Drama |
Murder by Experts |
Robert Arthur, David Kogan |
Mutual Broadcasting System |
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1950 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
|
Anthony Boucher |
New York Times |
Comment: and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine |
|
1950 |
Special Edgars |
|
Ellery Queen |
|
Comment: for ten years' service through Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine |
|
1950 |
Special Edgars |
The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
John Dickson Carr |
Harper & Row |
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1949 |
Best First Novel |
The Room Upstairs |
Mildred Davis |
Simon & Schuster |
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1949 |
Best Foreign film |
Quai des Orfevres |
Henri-Georges Clouzot |
Vog Films |
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1949 |
Best Motion Picture |
Call Northside 777 |
Jerome Cady, Jay Dratler, Henry Hathaway, Leonard Hoffman, Otto Lang, Quentin Reynolds |
Twentieth Century Fox |
Comment: Screenwriters: Reynolds, Hoffman, Dratler, Cady. Posthumous award for Cady. Hathaway was director. Lang produced |
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1949 |
Best Radio Drama |
Inner Sanctum |
John Roeburt |
CBS |
Comment: Himan Brown director/producer |
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1949 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
|
James Sandoe |
Chicago Sun-Times |
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1949 |
Special Edgars |
|
Clayton Rawson |
|
Comment: for launching Clue magazine |
|
1949 |
Special Edgars |
|
Marie Rodell |
Duell, Sloan & Pearce |
Comment: for her editorship of the Regional Murder series |
