* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Best Play | The Game's Afoot | Ken Ludwig | Cleveland Playhouse | |
| 2012 | Best Play | Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club | Jeffrey Hatcher | Arizona Theatre Company | |
| 2011 | Best Play | The Fall of the House | Robert Ford | Alabama Shakespeare Festival | |
| 2011 | Best Play | The Psychic | Sam Bobrick | Falcon Theatre | |
| 2011 | Best Play | The Tangled Skirt | Steve Braunstein | New Jersey Repertory Company | |
| 2009 | Best Play | The Ballad of Emmett Till | Ifa Bayeza | Goodman Theatre - Chicago, IL | |
| 2009 | Best Play | Cell | Judy Klass | International Mystery Writers Festival | |
| 2009 | Best Play | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Jeffrey Hatcher | Arizona Theatre Company | Comment: Based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 2008 | Best Play | Panic | Joseph Goodrich | International Mystery Writers Festival | |
| 2008 | Best Play | Books | Stuart M. Kaminsky | International Mystery Writers Festival | |
| 2008 | Best Play | If/Then | David Foley | International Mystery Writers Festival | |
| 2007 | Best Play | Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure | Steven Dietz | Arizona Theatre Company | |
| 2007 | Best Play | Curtains | Rupert Holmes | Ahmanson Theatre | |
| 2007 | Best Play | Ghosts of Ocean House | Michael Kimball | The Players Ring | |
| 2006 | Best Play | Safe House | Paul Leeper | Comment: Tennessee Stage Company | |
| 2006 | Best Play | Matter of Intent | Gary Earl Ross | Comment: Theater Loft | |
| 2006 | Best Play | Mating Dance of the Werewolf | Mark Stein | Comment: Rubicon Theatre | |
| 2006 | Best Play | River's End | Cheryl Coons, Chuck Larkin | Comment: Marin Theatre Company, Marin Theatre Company | |
| 2005 | Best Play | Spatter Pattern (Or, How I Got Away With It) | Neal Bell | Playwrights Horizons | |
| 2005 | Best Play | An Evening of Murder and the Like | Edward Musto | Barrow Group Studio Theatre | |
| 2005 | Best Play | Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life | Max Allan Collins | The Art House | |
| 2003 | Best Play | Easy | Philip DePoy | Horizon Theatre | |
| 2003 | Best Play | Monster | Derek Nguyen | East-West Players | |
| 2003 | Best Play | The Chronology Protection Case | Jay Kensinger, Paul Levinson, Mark Shanahan | Stage Shadows Productions, Inc. | Comment: based on story by Paul Levinson; adaptation by Mark Shanahan, Paul Levinson and Jay Kensinger |
| 2003 | Best Play | The West End Horror | Anthony Dodge, Marcia Milgrom Dodge | Bay Street Theatre | |
| 2000 | Best Play | The Art of Murder | Joe Di Pietro | Comment: Produced by Jonathan Pollard, George W. George & James N. Vagias, The American Stage Company's Becton Theatre, March 3, 1999 | |
| 2000 | Best Play | Everybody's Ruby | Thulani Davis | Comment: Produced by George C. Wolfe, The Joseph Papp Public Theatre, March 8, 1999 | |
| 1999 | Best Play | Voices in the Dark | John Pielmeier | Comment: Produced by the George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, New Jersey | |
| 1998 | Best Play | The Red Death | David Barr | ||
| 1991 | Best Play | Accomplice | Rupert Holmes | ||
| 1990 | Best Play | City of Angels | Larry Gelbart | Comment: music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by David Zippel | |
| 1986 | Best Play | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Rupert Holmes | Comment: New York Shakespeare Festival | |
| 1982 | Best Play | A Talent for Murder | Jerome Chodorov, Norman Panama | ||
| 1981 | Best Play | Ricochet | Paul Nathan | Comment: off-Broadway show | |
| 1980 | Best Play | Deathtrap | Ira Levin | ||
| 1971 | Best Play | Sleuth | Anthony Shaffer | Comment: performed at the Imperial Theater | |
| 1962 | Best Play | Write Me a Murder | Frederick Knott | ||
| 1962 | Best Play | A Shot in the Dark | Harry Kurnitz | ||
| 1955 | Best Play | Witness for the Prosecution | Agatha Christie | ||
| 1953 | Best Play | Dial M for Murder | Frederick Knott | ||
| 1950 | Best Play | Detective Story | Sidney Kingsley |