* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | TV Detectives | Richard Meyers | A.S. Barnes & Co. | |
| 1981 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers | John Reilly | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1981 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie | Robert Barnard | Dodd, Mead | |
| 1981 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Watteau's Shepherds: The Detective Novel in Britain 1914-1940 | Leroy Lad Panek | Bowling Green Popular Press | |
| 1980 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Dorothy L. Sayers, A Literary Biography | Ralph E. Hone | Kent State University Press | |
| 1980 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | As Her Whimsey Took Her | Margaret Hannay | Kent State University Press | |
| 1980 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Sherlock Holmes, The Man and His World | H.R.F. Keating | Scribners | |
| 1980 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Secret of Grown-Ups | Vera Caspary | McGraw-Hill | |
| 1979 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Mystery of Agatha Christie | Gwen Robins | Doubleday | |
| 1979 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case of the Real Perry Mason | Dorothy B. Hughes | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1979 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Detective in Hollywood | John Tuska | Doubleday | |
| 1979 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Tell-Tale Heart: The Life and Work of Edgar Allan Poe | Julian Symons | Harper & Row | |
| 1978 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Rex Stout | John McAleer | Little, Brown | |
| 1978 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | An Autobiography | Agatha Christie | Dodd, Mead | |
| 1978 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Encyclopedia Sherlockiana | Jack Tracy | Doubleday | |
| 1977 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection | Marvin Lachman, Otto Penzler, Charles Shibuk, Chris Steinbrunner | McGraw-Hill | |
| 1977 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Agatha Christie Mystery | Derrick Murdoch | Pagurian Press | |
| 1977 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Dangerous Edge | Gavin Lambert | Grossman | |
| 1977 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Life of Raymond Chandler | Frank McShane | Dutton | |
| 1977 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Mystery Story | John Ball | University of California at San Diego Publishers |