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1958
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Best First Novel
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Knock and Wait a While
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William Rawle Weeks
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Houghton Mifflin
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1957
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Best Episode in a TV Series
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The Fine Art of Murder
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Sidney Carroll
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ABC
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Series: Omnibus
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1957
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Best Fact Crime
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Night Fell on Georgia
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Charles Samuels, Louise Samuels
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Dell
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1957
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Best First Novel
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Rebecca's Pride
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Donald McNutt Douglass
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Harper
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1957
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Best Novel
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A Dram of Poison
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Charlotte Armstrong
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Coward-McCann
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1957
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Best Short Story
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The Blessington Method
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Stanley Ellin
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Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
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Volume: June '56
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1957
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Book Jacket Award
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Inspector Maigret and the Burglar's Wife
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Doubleday
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Comment: hardcover
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1957
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Outstanding Mystery Criticism
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Curtis W. Casewit
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Denver Post
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1957
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Special Edgars
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Compulsion
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Meyer Levin
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Simon & Schuster
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1957
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The Raven Award
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Dorothy Kilgallen
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Comment: Reader of the Year
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1956
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Best Episode in a TV Series
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A Taste of Honey
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Alvin Sapinsley Jr.
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ABC
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Series: Elgin Hour
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1956
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Best Fact Crime
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Dead and Gone
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Manly Wade Wellman
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University of North Carolina Press
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1956
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Best First Novel
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The Perfectionist
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Lane Kauffman
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Lippincott
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1956
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Best Foreign film
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Diabolique
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Henri-Georges Clouzot
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Filmsonor
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1956
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Best Motion Picture
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The Desperate Hours
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Joseph Hayes
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Paramount
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1956
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Best Novel
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Beast in View
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Margaret Millar
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Random House
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1956
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Best Short Story
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Dream No More
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Philip MacDonald
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Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
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Volume: November '55
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1956
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Book Jacket Award
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Scribners
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1955
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Best Episode in a TV Series
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Smoke
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Gore Vidal
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CBS-TV
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Series: Suspense
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1955
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Best Fact Crime
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The Girl with the Scarlet Brand
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Charles Boswell, Lewis Thompson
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Fawcett
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1955
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Best First Novel
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Go, Lovely Rose
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Jean Potts
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Scribners
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1955
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Best Motion Picture
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Rear Window
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John Michael Hayes
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Paramount
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1955
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Best Novel
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The Long Goodbye
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Raymond Chandler
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Houghton Mifflin
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1955
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Best Play
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Witness for the Prosecution
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Agatha Christie
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1955
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Best Radio Drama
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The Tree
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Stanley Niss
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CBS
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Series: 21st Precinct
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1955
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Best Short Story
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The House Party
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Stanley Ellin
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Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
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Volume: May '54
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1955
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Book Jacket Award
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Berton Roueche
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Dell
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Comment: softcover
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1955
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Book Jacket Award
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Eleven Blue Men
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Little, Brown
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1955
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Outstanding Mystery Criticism
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Drexel Drake
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Chicago Tribune
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1955
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The Grand Master
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Agatha Christie
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1954
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Best Episode in a TV Series
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Crime at Blossom's
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Jerome Ross
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CBS-TV
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Series: Studio One
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1954
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Best Fact Crime
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Why Did They Kill?
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John Bartlow Martin
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Ballantine
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1954
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Best First Novel
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A Kiss Before Dying
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Ira Levin
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Simon & Schuster
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1954
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Best Motion Picture
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The Big Heat
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Sidney Boehm, William P. McGivern
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Columbia
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Comment: Boehm is the screenwriter, McGivern is the author of the novel
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1954
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Best Novel
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Beat Not the Bones
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Charlotte Jay
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Harper
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1954
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Best Radio Drama
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The Shot
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E. Jack Neuman
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CBS
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Series: Suspense
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1954
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Best Short Story
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Someone Like You
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Roald Dahl
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Knopf
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1954
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Outstanding Mystery Criticism
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Brett Halliday
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Westport Town Crier
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Comment: and other Connecticut papers
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1954
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Outstanding Mystery Criticism
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Helen McCloy
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Westport Town Crier
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Comment: and other Connecticut papers
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1954
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Special Edgars
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The Frightened Wife and Other Murder Stories
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Rinehart & Co.
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1954
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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
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The Raven Award
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Tom Lehrer
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Comment: for his mystery parodies
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1954
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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
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Best Episode in a TV Series
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Dragnet
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Jack Webb
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NBC-TV
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Comment: and Michael Meshekoff, Producer
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1953
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Best Fact Crime
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Court of Last Resort
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Erle Stanley Gardner
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Wm. Sloane Association
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1953
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Best First Novel
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Don't Cry for Me
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William Campbell Gault
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Dutton
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1953
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Best Motion Picture
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Five Fingers
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Otto Lang, Michael G. Wilson
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Twentieth Century Fox
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Comment: Lang is the producer
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1953
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Best Play
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Dial M for Murder
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Frederick Knott
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1953
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Best Radio Drama
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The Mysterious Traveler
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Robert Arthur, David Kogan
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Mutual Broadcasting System
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1953
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Best Short Story
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Something to Hide
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Philip MacDonald
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Doubleday
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1953
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Outstanding Mystery Criticism
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Anthony Boucher
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New York Times
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Comment: and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
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1953
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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
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Best Episode in a TV Series
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The Web
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Franklin Heller
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CBS-TV
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Comment: and Goodson-Todman, package producers of the show
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1952
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Best Fact Crime
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True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality
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St. Clair McKelway
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Random House
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1952
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Best First Novel
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Strangle Hold
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Mary McMullen
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Harper
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1952
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Best Motion Picture
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Detective Story
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Sidney Kingsley, Robert Wyler, Philip Yordan
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Paramount
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Comment: Kingsley wrote the stage play on which the screen version was based, Wyler and Yordan were the screenwriters
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1952
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Best Radio Drama
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Dragnet
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James Moser, Jack Webb
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NBC
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1952
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Best Short Story
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Fancies and Goodnights
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John Collier
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Doubleday
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1952
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Outstanding Mystery Criticism
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Lenore Glen Offord
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San Francisco Chronicle
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Comment: for best overall mystery reviewing
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1952
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Special Edgars
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Queen Quorum: The 125 Most Important Books of Detective-Crime-Mystery Short Stories
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Frederic Dannay, Manfred B. Lee
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Biblo and Tannen
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1951
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Best Fact Crime
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Twelve Against Crime
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Edward D. Radin
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Putnam
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1951
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Best First Novel
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Nightmare in Manhattan
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Thomas Walsh
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Little, Brown
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1951
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Best Motion Picture
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Mr. 880
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St. Clair McKelway
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Twentieth Century Fox
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Comment: Winner of a special award as the author of the novel
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1951
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Best Motion Picture
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The Asphalt Jungle
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Ben Maddow
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MGM
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1951
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Best Radio Drama
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Dragnet
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James Moser, Jack Webb
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NBC
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1951
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Best Short Story
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Diagnosis: Homicide
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Lawrence G. Blochman
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Lippincott
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1951
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Outstanding Mystery Criticism
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Dorothy B. Hughes
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Albuquerque Tribune
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Comment: and Los Angeles Daily News
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1951
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Special Edgars
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W.T. Brannon
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Comment: for general excellence in fact crime writing
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1951
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Special Edgars
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The Web
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Franklin Heller
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Comment: producer/director of MWA's TV show
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1950
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Best Fact Crime
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Bad Company
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Joseph Henry Jackson
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Harcourt, Brace & World
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1950
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Best First Novel
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What A Body
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Alan Green
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Simon & Schuster
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1950
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Best Motion Picture
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The Window
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Mel Dinelli, Cornell Woolrich
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RKO
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Comment: Woolrich wrote the novel FIRE ESCAPE, on which the movie was based
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1950
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Best Play
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Detective Story
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Sidney Kingsley
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1950
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Best Radio Drama
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Murder by Experts
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Robert Arthur, David Kogan
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Mutual Broadcasting System
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1950
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Outstanding Mystery Criticism
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Anthony Boucher
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New York Times
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Comment: and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
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1950
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Special Edgars
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Ellery Queen
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Comment: for ten years' service through Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
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1950
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Special Edgars
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The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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John Dickson Carr
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Harper & Row
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1949
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Best First Novel
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The Room Upstairs
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Mildred Davis
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Simon & Schuster
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1949
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Best Foreign film
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Quai des Orfevres
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Henri-Georges Clouzot
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Vog Films
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1949
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Best Motion Picture
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Call Northside 777
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Jerome Cady, Jay Dratler, Henry Hathaway, Leonard Hoffman, Otto Lang, Quentin Reynolds
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Twentieth Century Fox
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Comment: Screenwriters: Reynolds, Hoffman, Dratler, Cady. Posthumous award for Cady. Hathaway was director. Lang produced
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1949
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Best Radio Drama
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Inner Sanctum
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John Roeburt
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CBS
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Comment: Himan Brown director/producer
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1949
|
Outstanding Mystery Criticism
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James Sandoe
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Chicago Sun-Times
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1949
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Special Edgars
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Clayton Rawson
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Comment: for launching Clue magazine
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1949
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Special Edgars
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Marie Rodell
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Duell, Sloan & Pearce
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Comment: for her editorship of the Regional Murder series
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1949
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Special Edgars
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Arthur A. Stoughton
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Comment: president of the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences and custodian of Poe Cottage in Fordham for 26 years
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1949
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Special Edgars
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Peter W. Williams
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Comment: for creating the Edgar bust
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1948
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Best Fact Crime
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Twelve Against the Law
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Edward D. Radin
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Duell, Sloan & Pearce
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1948
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Best First Novel
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The Fabulous Clipjoint
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Fredric Brown
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Dutton
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1948
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Best Motion Picture
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Crossfire
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John Paxton
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RKO
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Comment: based on the novel The Brick Fox-Hole by Richard Brooks/Dore Schary, producer/Adrian Scott, associate producer/Edward Dmytryk, director
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1948
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Best Radio Drama
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Suspense
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William Spier
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CBS
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1948
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Outstanding Mystery Criticism
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Howard Haycraft
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Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
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Comment: and author of THE ART OF THE MYSTERY STORY
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1947
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Best First Novel
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The Horizontal Man
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Helen Eustis
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Harper
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1947
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Best Motion Picture
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The Killers
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Anthony Veiller
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Hellinger-Universal
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Comment: Mark Hellinger, producer; Robert Siodmak, director
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1947
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Best Radio Drama
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The Adventures of Sam Spade
|
Jason James, Bob Tallman
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CBS
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Comment: William Spier producer
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1947
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Outstanding Mystery Criticism
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William C. Weber
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Saturday Review of Literature
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Comment: alias "Judge Lynch"
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1946
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Best First Novel
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Watchful at Night
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Julius Fast
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Rinehart & Co.
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1946
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Best Motion Picture
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Murder, My Sweet
|
John Paxton
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RKO
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Comment: screenplay: Raymond Chandler/author of Farewell, My Lovely on which the movie was based. Directed by Edward Dymtryk
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1946
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Best Motion Picture
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The House on 92nd St.
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Charles G. Booth, Barre Lyndon, John Monks, Jr.
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Twentieth Century Fox
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Comment: Honorary Scroll
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1946
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Best Radio Drama
|
Ellery Queen
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Frederic Dannay, Manfred B. Lee
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CBS
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Comment: A tie this year with MR. AND MRS. NORTH, Dannay and Lee were the team using the pseudonym "Ellery Queen"
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1946
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Best Radio Drama
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Mr. and Mrs. North
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Frances Lockridge, Richard Lockridge
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NBC
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Comment: A tie this year with ELLERY QUEEN
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