1986
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Best Novel
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The Suspect
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L.R. Wright
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Viking
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1986
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Best Paperback Original
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Pigs Get Fat
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Warren Murphy
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NAL
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1986
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Best Play
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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Rupert Holmes
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Comment: New York Shakespeare Festival
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1986
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Best Short Story
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Ride the Lightning
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John Lutz
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Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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Volume: January '85
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1986
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Best TV Feature or MiniSeries
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Guilty Conscience
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Richard Levinson, William Link
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CBS-TV
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1986
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Special Edgars
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Detective and Mystery Fiction: An International Bibliography of Secondary Sources
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Walter Albert
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Brownstone Books
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1986
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The Grand Master
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Ed McBain
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1986
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The Raven Award
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Suzi Oppenheimer
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Comment: Reader of the Year
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1986
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The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
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Final Rites
|
Doug Allyn
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Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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Volume: December '85
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1985
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Novel Verdicts: A Guide to Courtroom Fiction
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Jon L. Breen
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Scarecrow Press
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1985
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Best Episode in a TV Series
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Deadly Lady
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Peter S. Fischer
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CBS-TV
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Series: Murder, She Wrote
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1985
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Best Fact Crime
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Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings
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Mike Weiss
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Addison-Wesley
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1985
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Best First Novel
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Strike Three, You're Dead
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R.D. Rosen
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Walker
|
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1985
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Best Juvenile
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Night Cry
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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Atheneum
|
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1985
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Best Motion Picture
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A Soldier's Story
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Charles Fuller
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Columbia
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1985
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Best Novel
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Briar Patch
|
Ross Thomas
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Simon & Schuster
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1985
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Best Paperback Original
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Grandmaster
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Molly Cochran, Warren Murphy
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Pinnacle
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1985
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Best Short Story
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By Dawn's Early Light
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Lawrence Block
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Playboy
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Volume: August '84
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1985
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Best TV Feature or MiniSeries
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The Glitter Dome
|
Stanley Kallis
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HBO
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1985
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Special Edgars
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The Silent Shame
|
Mark Nykaned
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NBC-TV
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Comment: news report on child-abuse crimes
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1985
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The Ellery Queen Award
|
|
Joan Kahn
|
|
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1985
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The Grand Master
|
|
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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|
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1985
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The Raven Award
|
|
Eudora Welty
|
|
Comment: Reader of the Year
|
1985
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The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
|
Poor Dumb Mouths
|
Bill Crenshaw
|
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
|
Volume: May '84
|
1984
|
Best Short Story
|
The New Girlfriend
|
Ruth Rendell
|
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
|
Volume: August '83
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1984
|
Best TV Feature or MiniSeries
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Mickey Spillane's Murder Me, Murder You
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Bill Stratton
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CBS-TV
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1984
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Special Edgars
|
A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle
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John Michael Gibson, Richard Lancelyn Green
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Oxford University Press
|
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1984
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The Grand Master
|
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John le Carre
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|
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1984
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The Raven Award
|
|
Sylvia Porter
|
|
Comment: Reader of the Year
|
1984
|
The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
|
Locked Doors
|
Lilly Carlson
|
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
|
Volume: October '83
|
1984
|
Best Critical/Biographical Work
|
The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock
|
Donald Spoto
|
Little, Brown
|
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1984
|
Best Episode in a TV Series
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The Pencil
|
Jo Eisinger
|
HBO
|
Series: Philip Marlowe
|
1984
|
Best Fact Crime
|
Very Much A Lady
|
Shana Alexander
|
Little, Brown
|
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1984
|
Best First Novel
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The Bay Psalm Book Murder
|
Will Harriss
|
Walker
|
|
1984
|
Best Juvenile
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The Callender Papers
|
Cynthia Voigt
|
Atheneum
|
|
1984
|
Best Motion Picture
|
Gorky Park
|
Dennis Potter
|
Orion
|
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1984
|
Best Novel
|
La Brava
|
Elmore Leonard
|
Arbor House
|
|
1984
|
Best Paperback Original
|
Mrs. White
|
Margaret Tracy
|
Dell
|
|
1983
|
Best Critical/Biographical Work
|
Cain
|
Roy Hoopes
|
Holt, Rinehart & Winston
|
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1983
|
Best Episode in a TV Series
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In The Steele of the Night
|
Joel Steiger
|
NBC-TV
|
Series: Remington Steele
|
1983
|
Best Fact Crime
|
The Vatican Connection
|
Richard Hammer
|
Holt, Rinehart & Winston
|
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1983
|
Best First Novel
|
The Butcher'sBoy
|
Thomas Perry
|
Scribners
|
|
1983
|
Best Juvenile
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The Murder of Hound Dog Bates
|
Robbie Branscum
|
Viking
|
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1983
|
Best Motion Picture
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The Long Good Friday
|
Barrie Keeffe
|
Handmade Films
|
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1983
|
Best Novel
|
Billingsgate Shoal
|
Rick Boyer
|
Houghton Mifflin
|
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1983
|
Best Paperback Original
|
Triangle
|
Teri White
|
Ace/Charter
|
|
1983
|
Best Short Story
|
There Are No Snakes in Ireland
|
Frederick Forsyth
|
Viking
|
Anthology: No Comebacks
|
1983
|
Best TV Feature or MiniSeries
|
Rehearsal for Murder
|
Richard Levinson, William Link
|
CBS-TV
|
|
1983
|
Special Edgars
|
The Case of Dashiell Hammett
|
Stephen Talbot
|
PBS
|
|
1983
|
The Ellery Queen Award
|
|
Emma Lathen
|
|
Comment: AKA: Mary Jane Latsis and Martha Henissart
|
1983
|
The Grand Master
|
|
Margaret Millar
|
|
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1983
|
The Raven Award
|
|
Isaac Bashevis Singer
|
|
Comment: Reader of the Year
|
1982
|
Best Critical/Biographical Work
|
What About Murder?
|
Jon L. Breen
|
Scarecrow Press
|
|
1982
|
Best Episode in a TV Series
|
Hill Street Station
|
Steven Bochco, Michael Kozoll
|
NBC-TV
|
Series: Hill Street Blues
|
1982
|
Best Fact Crime
|
The Sting Man
|
Robert W. Greene
|
Dutton
|
|
1982
|
Best First Novel
|
Chiefs
|
Stuart Woods
|
W.W. Norton & Co.
|
|
1982
|
Best Juvenile
|
Taking Terri Mueller
|
Norma Fox Mazer
|
Avon
|
|
1982
|
Best Motion Picture
|
Cutter's Way
|
Jeffrey Alan Fiskin
|
United Artists
|
|
1982
|
Best Novel
|
Peregrine
|
William Bayer
|
Congdon & Lattes
|
|
1982
|
Best Paperback Original
|
The Old Dick
|
L.A. Morse
|
Avon
|
|
1982
|
Best Play
|
A Talent for Murder
|
Jerome Chodorov, Norman Panama
|
|
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1982
|
Best Short Story
|
The Absence of Emily
|
Jack Ritchie
|
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
|
Volume: January '81
|
1982
|
Best TV Feature or MiniSeries
|
Lilljoy
|
Sam H. Rolfe
|
CBS-TV
|
|
1982
|
Special Edgars
|
The Young Detective's Handbook
|
William Vivian Butler
|
HBO
|
Comment: production of the William Gillette play
|
1982
|
The Grand Master
|
|
Julian Symons
|
|
|
1981
|
Best Critical/Biographical Work
|
Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers
|
John Reilly
|
St. Martin's Press
|
|
1981
|
Best Episode in a TV Series
|
China Doll
|
Donald P. Bellisario, Glen A. Larson
|
CBS-TV
|
Series: Magnum P.I.
|
1981
|
Best Fact Crime
|
A True Deliverance
|
Fred Harwell
|
Knopf
|
|
1981
|
Best First Novel
|
The Watcher
|
K. Nolte Smith
|
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
|
|
1981
|
Best Juvenile
|
The Seance
|
Joan Lowery Nixon
|
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
|
|
1981
|
Best Motion Picture
|
The Black Marble
|
Joseph Wambaugh
|
AVCO-Embassy
|
|
1981
|
Best Novel
|
Whip Hand
|
Dick Francis
|
Harper & Row
|
|
1981
|
Best Paperback Original
|
Public Murders
|
Bill Granger
|
Jove Books
|
|
1981
|
Best Play
|
Ricochet
|
Paul Nathan
|
|
Comment: off-Broadway show
|
1981
|
Best Short Story
|
Horn Man
|
Clark Howard
|
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
|
Volume: July '80
|
1981
|
Best TV Feature or MiniSeries
|
City in Fear
|
Albert Ruben
|
ABC
|
|
1981
|
Special Edgars
|
|
Lawrence Spivak
|
|
Comment: founding publisher of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine 40 years ago
|
1981
|
Special Edgars
|
Mystery!
|
Joan Wilson
|
|
Comment: best in international programming; Series: PBS
|
1981
|
Special Edgars
|
The Edge of Night
|
unknown
|
|
Comment: celebrating its 25th year as a TV series
|
1981
|
The Grand Master
|
|
Stanley Ellin
|
|
|
1980
|
Best Critical/Biographical Work
|
Dorothy L. Sayers, A Literary Biography
|
Ralph E. Hone
|
Kent State University Press
|
|
1980
|
Best Episode in a TV Series
|
Skin
|
Robin Chapman, Roald Dahl
|
Anglia Ltd.
|
Series: Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected
|
1980
|
Best Fact Crime
|
The Falcon and the Snowman
|
Robert Lindsey
|
Simon & Schuster
|
|
1980
|
Best First Novel
|
The Lasko Tangent
|
Richard North Patterson
|
W.W. Norton & Co.
|
|
1980
|
Best Juvenile
|
The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore
|
Joan Lowery Nixon
|
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
|
|
1980
|
Best Motion Picture
|
The Great Train Robbery
|
Michael Crichton
|
United Artists
|
|
1980
|
Best Novel
|
The Rheingold Route
|
Arthur Maling
|
Harper & Row
|
|
1980
|
Best Paperback Original
|
The Hog Murders
|
William L. DeAndrea
|
Avon
|
|
1980
|
Best Play
|
Deathtrap
|
Ira Levin
|
|
|
1980
|
Best Short Story
|
Armed and Dangerous
|
Geoffrey Norman
|
Esquire
|
Volume: March '79
|
1980
|
Best TV Feature or MiniSeries
|
Murder by Natural Causes
|
Richard Levinson, William Link
|
CBS-TV
|
|
1980
|
Special Edgars
|
Dick Tracy
|
Chester Gould
|
|
Comment: creator of Dick Tracy nearly 50 years ago
|
1980
|
Special Edgars
|
The Bibliography of Crimie Fiction, 1749 - 1975
|
Allen J Hubin
|
University Extension/University of California
|
|
1980
|
Special Edgars
|
The Murderers' Who's Who
|
J.H.H. Gaute, Robin Odell
|
|
|
1980
|
The Grand Master
|
|
W.R. Burnett
|
|
|
1980
|
The Raven Award
|
Muppet Murders
|
Muppet Show
|
|
|
1979
|
Best Critical/Biographical Work
|
The Mystery of Agatha Christie
|
Gwen Robins
|
Doubleday
|
|
1979
|
Best Episode in a TV Series
|
Murder Under Glass
|
Robert Van Scoyk
|
NBC-TV
|
Series: Columbo
|
1979
|
Best Fact Crime
|
Till Death Do Us Part
|
Vincent Bugliosi, Ken Hurwitz
|
W.W. Norton & Co.
|
|
1979
|
Best First Novel
|
Killed in the Ratings
|
William L. DeAndrea
|
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
|
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