* Bold records denote winners
Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
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1986 | Best Paperback Original | Broken Idols | Sean Flannery | Charter | |
1986 | Best Paperback Original | Poverty Bay | Earl W. Emerson | Avon | |
1985 | Best Paperback Original | Grandmaster | Molly Cochran, Warren Murphy | Pinnacle | |
1985 | Best Paperback Original | Black Knight in Red Square | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Charter | |
1985 | Best Paperback Original | The Keys to Billy Tillio | Eric Blau | Pinnacle | |
1985 | Best Paperback Original | The Seventh Sacrament | Roland Cutler | Dell | |
1985 | Best Paperback Original | Words Can Kill | Kenn Davis | Fawcett Crest | |
1984 | Best Paperback Original | Mrs. White | Margaret Tracy | Dell | |
1984 | Best Paperback Original | False Prophets | Sean Flannery | Charter | |
1984 | Best Paperback Original | Hunter | Eric Sauter | Avon | |
1984 | Best Paperback Original | Kill Factor | Richard Harper | Fawcett | |
1984 | Best Paperback Original | Trace | Warren Murphy | Signet | |
1983 | Best Paperback Original | Triangle | Teri White | Ace/Charter | |
1983 | Best Paperback Original | Clandestine | James Ellroy | Avon | |
1983 | Best Paperback Original | The Missing and the Dead | Jack Lynch | Fawcett | |
1983 | Best Paperback Original | Vital Signs | Ralph Burrows, M.D. | Fawcett | |
1982 | Best Paperback Original | The Old Dick | L.A. Morse | Avon | |
1982 | Best Paperback Original | Dead Heat | Ray Obstfeld | Charter | |
1982 | Best Paperback Original | Deadline | John Dunning | Fawcett | |
1982 | Best Paperback Original | Pin | Andrew Neiderman | Pocket Books | |
1982 | Best Paperback Original | The Unforgiven | Patricia J. MacDonald | Dell | |
1981 | Best Paperback Original | Public Murders | Bill Granger | Jove Books | |
1981 | Best Paperback Original | Blood Innocents | Thomas H. Cook | Playboy | |
1981 | Best Paperback Original | Looking for Ginger North | John Dunning | Fawcett | |
1981 | Best Paperback Original | Tough Luck, L.A. | Murray Sinclair | Pinnacle | |
1980 | Best Paperback Original | The Hog Murders | William L. DeAndrea | Avon | |
1980 | Best Paperback Original | The Infernal Device | Michael Kurland | NAL | |
1980 | Best Paperback Original | The Kremlin Conspiracy | Sean Flannery | Charter | |
1980 | Best Paperback Original | The Queen is Dead | Glen Keger | Jove Books | |
1980 | Best Paperback Original | Vortex | David Heller | Avon | |
1979 | Best Paperback Original | Deceit and Deadly Lies | Frank Bandy | Charter | |
1979 | Best Paperback Original | Charnel House | Graham Masterton | Pinnacle | |
1979 | Best Paperback Original | Heartstone | Philip Margolin | Pocket Books | |
1979 | Best Paperback Original | Stud Game | David Anthony | Pocket Books | |
1979 | Best Paperback Original | The Switch | Elmore Leonard | Bantam | |
1978 | Best Paperback Original | The Quark Maneuver | Mike Jahn | Ballantine | |
1978 | Best Paperback Original | The Terrorizers | Donald Hamilton | Gold Medal | |
1978 | Best Paperback Original | They've Killed Anna | Marc Olden | Signet | |
1978 | Best Paperback Original | Time to Murder and Create | Lawrence Block | Dell | |
1977 | Best Paperback Original | Confess, Fletch | Gregory McDonald | Avon | |
1977 | Best Paperback Original | Freeze Frame | R.R. Irvine | Popular Library | |
1977 | Best Paperback Original | The Captive City | Daniel Da Cruz | Ballantine | |
1977 | Best Paperback Original | The Dark Side | Kenn Davis, John Stanley | Avon | |
1977 | Best Paperback Original | The Retaliators | Donald Hamilton | Fawcett | |
1976 | Best Paperback Original | Autopsy | John R. Feegel | Avon | |
1976 | Best Paperback Original | Charlie's Back in Town | Jacqueline Park | Popular Library | |
1976 | Best Paperback Original | The Assassination | David Vowell | Bantam | |
1976 | Best Paperback Original | The Midas Coffin | Simon Quinn | Dell | |
1976 | Best Paperback Original | The Set-Up | Milt Machlin, Robin Moore | Pyramid | |
1975 | Best Paperback Original | The Corpse That Walked | Roy Winsor | Fawcett | |
1975 | Best Paperback Original | Flats Fixed-Among Other Things | Don Tracy | Pocket Books | |
1975 | Best Paperback Original | Jump Cut | R.R. Irvine | Popular Press | |
1975 | Best Paperback Original | The Gravy Train Hit | Curtis Stevens | Dell | |
1975 | Best Paperback Original | Who Killed Mr. Garland's Mistress? | Richard Forrest | Pinnacle | |
1974 | Best Paperback Original | Death of an Informer | Will Perry | Pyramid | |
1974 | Best Paperback Original | Deadlocked! | Leo P. Kelley | Gold Medal | |
1974 | Best Paperback Original | Starling Street | Dinah Palmtag | Dell | |
1974 | Best Paperback Original | The Big Fix | Roger L. Simon | Straight Arrow | |
1974 | Best Paperback Original | The Mediterranean Caper | Clive Cussler | Pyramid | |
1973 | Best Paperback Original | The Invader | Richard Wormser | Gold Medal | |
1973 | Best Paperback Original | Not Dead Yet | Daniel Banko | Gold Medal | |
1973 | Best Paperback Original | Power Kill | Charles Runyon | Gold Medal | |
1973 | Best Paperback Original | The Smith Conspiracy | Richard Neely | Signet | |
1972 | Best Paperback Original | For Murder I Charge More | Frank McAuliffe | Ballantine | |
1972 | Best Paperback Original | And the Deep Blue Sea | Charles Williams | Signet | |
1972 | Best Paperback Original | Nor Spell, Nor Charm | Alicen White | Lancer Books | |
1972 | Best Paperback Original | Space for Hire | William F. Nolan | Lancer Books | |
1972 | Best Paperback Original | The White Wolverine Contract | Philip Atlee | Gold Medal | |
1971 | Best Paperback Original | Flashpoint | Dan J. Marlowe | Gold Medal | |
1971 | Best Paperback Original | After Things Fell Apart | Ron Goulart | Ace | |
1971 | Best Paperback Original | Grave Descend | John Lange | Signet | |
1971 | Best Paperback Original | Mafioso | Peter McCurtin | Belmont | |
1971 | Best Paperback Original | O.D. at Sweet Claude's | Matt Gattzden | Belmont | |
1971 | Best Paperback Original | The Drowning | Jack Ehrlich | Pocket Books | |
1970 | Best Paperback Original | The Dragon's Eye | Scott C.S. Stone | Gold Medal | |
1970 | Best Paperback Original | A Plague of Spies | Michael Kurland | Pyramid | |
1970 | Best Paperback Original | Assault on Ming | Alan Caillou | Avon | |
1970 | Best Paperback Original | The Governess | Elsie Cromwell | Paperback Library | |
1970 | Best Paperback Original | The Sour Lemon Score | Richard Stark | Gold Medal |