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2002 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett: 1921-1960 |
Richard Layman, Julie M Rivett |
Counterpoint |
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2002 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The History of Mystery |
Max Allan Collins |
Collectors Press |
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2002 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Who Was That Lady? |
Jeffrey Marks |
Delphi Books |
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2001
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Conundrums for the Long Week-End
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Ethan Lewis, Robert Kuhn McGregor
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Kent State University Press
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2001 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Doctor & The Detective: A Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
Martin Booth |
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press/Minotaur |
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2001 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Red-Hot Typewriter: The Life & Times of John D. Macdonald |
Hugh Merrill |
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press/Minotaur |
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2001 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Women of Mystery: The Lives & Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists |
Martha Hailey Dubose, Margaret Caldwell Thomas |
St. Martin's Press/Minotaur |
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2000
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle
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Daniel Stashower
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Henry Holt & Sons
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2000 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
A Suitable Job for a Woman |
Val McDermid |
Poisoned Pen Press |
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2000 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing |
Rosemary Herbert |
Oxford University Press |
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2000 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Ross Macdonald |
Tom Nolan |
Scribners |
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2000 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Web of Inquity: Early Detective Fiction by American Women |
Catherine Ross Nickerson |
Duke University Press |
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1999
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Mystery and Suspense Writers
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Maureen Corrigan, Robin W. Winks
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Scribners
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Comment: associate editor, editor in chief
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1999 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Cordially Yours, Brother Cadfael |
K. Anne Kaler |
Bowling Green Popular Press |
Comment: editor |
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1999 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir |
Eddie Muller |
St. Martin's Press |
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1999 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe |
John Evangelist Walsh |
Rutgers University Press |
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1999 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Seven Deadly Sins in the Work of Dorothy L. Sayers |
Janice Brown |
The Kent State University Press |
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1998
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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G is for Grafton: The World of Kinsey Millhone
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Natalie Hevener Kaufman, Carol McGinnis Kay
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Henry Holt
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1998 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
AZ Murder Goes...Classic |
Susan Malling, Barbara Peters |
The Poisoned Pen Press |
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1998 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Crime Fiction and Film in the Sunshine State: Florida Noir |
Steve Glassman, Maurice O'Sullivan |
Popular Press |
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1998 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Deadly Women: The Woman Mystery Readers' Indispensable Companion |
Jan Grape, Dean James, Ellen Nehr |
Carroll & Graf |
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1998 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Reader and the Detective Story |
George M. Dove |
Popular Press |
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1997
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes
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Michael Atkinson
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University of Michigan Press
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1997 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Agatha Christie: A to Z |
Dawn B. Sova |
Facts on File, Inc. |
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1997 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Detecting Women 2: A Reader's Guide and Checklist for Mystery Series Written by Women |
Willetta L. Heising |
Purple Moon Press |
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1997 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Elusion Aforethought: The Life and Writing of Anthony Berkeley Cox |
Malcolm J. Turnbull |
Bowling Green Popular Press |
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1997 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Blues Detective: A Study of African-American Detective Fiction |
Stephen F. Soitos |
University of Massachusetts Press |
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1996
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson
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Robert Polito
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Knopf
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1996 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles |
Douglas G. Greene |
Otto Penzler Books |
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1996 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Cadfael Companion: The World of Brother Cadfael |
Robin Whiteman |
Mysterious/Warner |
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1996 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Life of Graham Greene |
Norman Sherry |
Viking |
Volume: Volume II: 1939-1955 |
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1995
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Encyclopedia Mysteriosa
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William L. DeAndrea
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Prentice-Hall
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1995 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
By a Woman's Hand |
Dean James, Jean Swanson |
Berkley |
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1995 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Dick Tracey and American Culture |
Garyn G. Roberts |
McFarland |
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1995 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Great Women Mystery Writers |
Kathleen Gregory Klein |
Greenwood Press |
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1995 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Tony Hillerman Companion |
Martin Greenberg |
HarperCollins |
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1994
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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The Saint: A Complete History
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Burl Barer
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McFarland & Co.
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1994 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
A Reader's Guide to the American Novel of Detection |
Marvin Lachman |
G.K. Hall |
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1994 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul |
Barbara Reynolds |
St. Martin's Press |
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1994 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Fine Art of Murder |
Jon L. Breen, Ed Gorman, Martin Greenberg, Larry Segriff |
Carroll & Graf |
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1994 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Man Who Wasn't Maigret |
Patrick Marnham |
Farrar, Straus, Giroux |
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1993
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Alias S.S. Van Dine
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John Loughery
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Scribners
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1993 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life |
David Coomes |
Lion Publishing |
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1993 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Doubleday Crime Club Compendium |
Ellen Nehr |
Offspring Press |
Volume: 1928-1991 |
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1993 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy |
Jeffrey Meyers |
Scribners |
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1992
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance
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Kenneth Silverman
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HarperCollins
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1992 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Agatha Christie: Murder in Four Acts |
Peter Haining |
Virgin Books |
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1992 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Jim Thompson: Sleep with the Devil |
Michael J. McCauley |
Mysterious Press |
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1992 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Out of the Woodpile: Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction |
Frankie E. Bailey |
Greenwood Press |
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1992 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Talking Mysteries: A Conversation with Tony Hillerman |
Ernie Bulow, Tony Hillerman |
University of New Mexico Press |
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1991
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Trouble is Their Business: Private Eyes in Fiction, Film, and Television, 1927-1988
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John Conquest
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Garland
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1991 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Eric Ambler |
Peter Lewis |
Continuum |
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1991 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Hillary Waugh's Guide to Mysteries and Mystery Writing |
Hillary Waugh |
Writer's Digest Books |
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1991 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
John Dickinson Carr: A Critical Study |
S.T. Joshi |
Bowling Green Popular Press |
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1991 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers |
Catherine Kenney |
Kent State University Press |
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1990
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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The Life of Graham Greene
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Norman Sherry
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Viking
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Volume: Volume I: 1904-1939
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1990 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Film Noir: Reflections in a Dark Mirror |
Bruce Crowther |
Continuum |
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1990 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Murder on the Air |
Ric Meyers |
Mysterious Press |
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1990 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Mysterium and Mystery: The Clerical Crime Novel |
William David Spencer |
UMI Research Press |
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1990 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Perfect Murder: A Study in Detection |
David Lehman |
Free Press/Macmillan |
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1989
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die
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Francis M. Nevins, Jr.
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Mysterious Press
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1989 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Silk Stalkings: When Women Write of Murder |
Victoria Nichols, Susan Thompson |
Black Lizard |
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1989 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Sisters in Crime: Feminism and the Crime Novel |
Maureen T. Reddy |
Continuum |
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1989 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Dime Detectives |
Ron Goulart |
Mysterious Press |
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1988
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Introduction to the Detective Story
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Leroy Lad Panek
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Popular Press
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1988 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Campion's Career: A Study of the Novels of Margery Allingham |
B. A. Pike |
Bowling Green Popular Press |
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1988 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Corridors of Deceit, The World of John le Carre |
Peter Wolfe |
Popular Library |
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1988 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Crime and Mystery, The 100 Best Books |
H.R.F. Keating |
Carroll & Graf |
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1987
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Here Lies: An Autobiography
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Eric Ambler
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Farrar, Straus, Giroux
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1987 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
1001 Midnights: The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery Fiction |
Marcia Muller, Bill Pronzini |
Arbor House |
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1987 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
13 Mistresses of Murder |
Elaine Budd |
Ungar |
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1987 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Mystery Lover's Companion |
Art Bourgeau |
Crown |
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1987 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Secret of the Stratemeyer Syndicate: Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys and the Million Dollar Fiction Factory |
Carol Billman |
Ungar |
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1986
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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John le Carre
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Peter Lewis
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Ungar
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1986 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Agatha Christie |
Janet Morgan |
Knopf |
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1986 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Private Eyes: 101 Knights, A Survey of American Fiction |
Robert A. Baker, Michael T. Nietzel |
Bowling Green Popular Press |
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1986 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The American Private Eye: The Image in Fiction |
David Geherin |
Ungar |
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1986 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Lord Peter Wimsey Companion |
Stephan P. Clarke |
Mysterious Press |
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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 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Inward Journey: Ross MacDonald |
Ralph B. Sipper |
Cordelia Editions |
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1985 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
One Lonely Knight: Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer |
Max Allan Collins, James L. Traylor |
Bowling Green Popular Press |
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1985 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Ross Macdonald |
Matthew J. Bruccoli |
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
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1985 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The James Bond Bedside Companion |
Raymond Benson |
Dodd, Mead |
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1984
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock
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Donald Spoto
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Little, Brown
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1984 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Dashiell Hammett |
Diane Johnson |
Random House |
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1984 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Mystery of Georges Simenon |
Fenton Bresler |
Beaufort |
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1984 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Poetics of Murder |
Glen W. Most, William W. Stowe |
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
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1983
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Cain
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Roy Hoopes
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Holt, Rinehart & Winston
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1983 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Gun in Cheek |
Bill Pronzini |
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan |
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1983 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Modus Operandi |
Robin W. Winks |
David R. Godine |
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1983 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Police Procedural |
George M. Dove |
Bowling Green Popular Press |
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1982
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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What About Murder?
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Jon L. Breen
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Scarecrow Press
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1982 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler |
Frank MacShane |
Columbia University Press |
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1982 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Annotated Tales of Edgar Allan Poe |
Stephen Peithman |
Doubleday |
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1982 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Whodunit |
Stefano Benvenuti, Gianni Rizzoni |
Macmillan |
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1982 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
TV Detectives |
Richard Meyers |
A.S. Barnes & Co. |
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1981
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers
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John Reilly
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St. Martin's Press
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1981 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie |
Robert Barnard |
Dodd, Mead |
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1981 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Watteau's Shepherds: The Detective Novel in Britain 1914-1940 |
Leroy Lad Panek |
Bowling Green Popular Press |
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1980
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Dorothy L. Sayers, A Literary Biography
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Ralph E. Hone
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Kent State University Press
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