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2023 |
Best Short Story |
Red Flag |
Gregory Fallis |
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine |
Issue: March-April 2022 |
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2023 |
Best Short Story |
Backstory |
Charles John Harper |
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine |
Issue: January-February 2022 |
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2023 |
Best Short Story |
Locked-In |
William Burton McCormick |
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine |
Issue: January-February 2022 |
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2023 |
Best Short Story |
The Amnesty Box |
Tim McLoughlin |
Akashic Books |
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Anthology |
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2023 |
Best Short Story |
First You Dream, Then You Die |
Donna Moore |
Titan Books |
Black is the Night Anthology |
|
2022 |
Best Short Story |
Blindsided |
Michael Bracken & James A. Hearn |
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine |
Issue: September-October 2021 |
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2022 |
Best Short Story |
The Vermeer Conspiracy |
V.M. Burns |
Crooked Lane Books |
Midnight Hour Anthology |
|
2022 |
Best Short Story |
Lucky Thirteen |
Tracy Clark |
Crooked Lane Books |
Midnight Hour Anthology |
|
2022
|
Best Short Story
|
The Road to Hana
|
R.T. Lawton
|
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
|
Issue: May-June 2021
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|
2022 |
Best Short Story |
The Locked Room Library |
Gigi Pandian |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
Issue - July-August 2021 |
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2022 |
Best Short Story |
The Dark Oblivion |
Cornell Woolrich |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
Issue: January-February 2021 |
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2021 |
Best Short Story |
The Summer Uncle Cat Came to Stay |
Leslie Elman |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
Issue: January-February 2020 |
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2021
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Best Short Story
|
Dust, Ash, Flight
|
Maaza Mengiste
|
Akashic Books
|
Addis Ababa Noir
|
|
2021 |
Best Short Story |
Etta at the End of the World |
Joseph S. Walker |
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine |
Issue: May-June 2020 |
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2021 |
Best Short Story |
The Twenty-Five Year Engagement |
James W. Ziskin |
Pegasus Books - Pegasus Crime |
In League with Sherlock Holmes |
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2020
|
Best Short Story
|
One of These Nights
|
Livia Llewellyn
|
Akashic Books
|
Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers
|
|
2020 |
Best Short Story |
The Passenger |
Kirsten Tranter |
Akashic Books |
Sydney Noir |
|
2020 |
Best Short Story |
Home at Last |
Sam Wiebe |
Down & Out Books |
Die Behind the Wheel: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Steely Dan |
|
2020 |
Best Short Story |
Brother's Keeper |
Dave Zeltserman |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
Issue - May-June 2019 |
|
2020 |
Best Short Story |
Turistas |
Hector Acosta |
Down & Out Books |
Paque Tu Lo Sepas |
|
2019 |
Best Short Story |
Rabid - A Mike Bowditch Short Story |
Paul Doiron |
Minotaur Books |
|
|
2019 |
Best Short Story |
Paranoid Enough for Two |
John Lutz |
Kensington Publishing |
The Honorable Traitors |
|
2019 |
Best Short Story |
Ancient and Modern |
Val McDermid |
Pegasus Books |
Bloody Scotland |
|
2019
|
Best Short Story
|
English 398: Fiction Workshop
|
Art Taylor
|
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
|
Issue: July-August 2018
|
|
2019 |
Best Short Story |
The Sleep Tight Motel |
Lisa Unger |
Amazon Publishing |
Dark Corners Collection |
|
2018
|
Best Short Story
|
Spring Break
|
John Crowley
|
Akashic Books
|
New Haven Noir
|
|
2018 |
Best Short Story |
Hard to Get |
Jeffery Deaver |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
Issue: July-August 2017 |
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2018 |
Best Short Story |
Ace in the Hole |
Eric Heidle |
Akashic Books |
Montana Noir |
|
2018 |
Best Short Story |
A Moment of Clarity at the Waffle House |
Kenji Jasper |
Akashic Books |
Atlanta Noir |
|
2018 |
Best Short Story |
Chin Yong-Yun Stays at Home |
S.J. Rozan |
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine |
Issue: January-February 2017 |
|
2017 |
Best Short Story |
Oxford Girl |
Megan Abbott |
Akashic Books |
Missiissippi Noir |
|
2017 |
Best Short Story |
A Paler Shade of Death |
Laura Benedict |
Akashic Books |
St. Louis Noir |
|
2017
|
Best Short Story
|
Autumn at the Automat
|
Lawrence Block
|
Pegasus Books
|
In Sunlight or in Shadow
|
|
2017 |
Best Short Story |
The Music Room |
Stephen King |
Pegasus Books |
In Sunlight or in Shadow |
|
2017 |
Best Short Story |
The Crawl Space |
Joyce Carol Oates |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
Issue: Sept/Oct 2016 |
|
2016 |
Best Short Story |
The Little Men |
Megan Abbott |
Mysterious Bookshop |
|
|
2016 |
Best Short Story |
On Borrowed Time |
Mat Coward |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
Issue: June 2015 |
|
2016 |
Best Short Story |
The Saturday Night Before Easter Sunday |
Peter Farrelly |
Akashic Books |
Providence Noir |
|
2016 |
Best Short Story |
Family Treasures |
Shirley Jackson |
Random House |
Let Me Tell You |
|
2016
|
Best Short Story
|
Obits
|
Stephen King
|
Simon & Schuster - Scribner
|
Bazaar of Bad Dreams
|
|
2016 |
Best Short Story |
Every Seven Years |
Denise Mina |
Mysterious Bookshop |
|
|
2015 |
Best Short Story |
200 Feet |
John Floyd |
Strand Magazine |
|
|
2015
|
Best Short Story
|
What Do You Do?
|
Gillian Flynn
|
Penguin Random House - Bantam Books
|
Volume: Rogues
|
|
2015 |
Best Short Story |
Red Eye |
Dennis Lehane vs. Michael Connelly |
Simon & Schuster |
Volume: Faceoff |
|
2015 |
Best Short Story |
Teddy |
Brian Tobin |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
Volume: May 2014 |
|
2015 |
Best Short Story |
The Snow Angel |
Doug Allyn |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
Issue: January 2014 |
|
2014
|
Best Short Story
|
The Caxton Private Lending Library and Book Depository
|
John Connolly
|
Mysterious Bookshop
|
Volume: Bibliomysteries
|
|
2014 |
Best Short Story |
So Long, Chief |
Max Allan Collins, Mickey Spillane |
The Strand |
|
|
2014 |
Best Short Story |
The Terminal |
Reed Farrel Coleman |
Amazon Publishing - Thomas and Mercer |
Anthology: Kwik Krimes |
|
2014 |
Best Short Story |
There are Roads in the Water |
Trina Corey |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
Volume: January 2013 |
|
2014 |
Best Short Story |
Where That Morning Sun Goes Down |
Tim L. Williams |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
Volume: August 2013 |
|
2013 |
Best Short Story |
Hot Sugar Blues |
Steve Liskow |
Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown and Company - Mulholland Books |
Anthology: Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance |
|
2013 |
Best Short Story |
Iphigenia in Aulis |
Mike Carey |
Penguin Group USA - Ace Books |
Anthology: An Apple for the Creature |
|
2013 |
Best Short Story |
Still Life No. 41 |
Teresa Solana |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
Volume: March/April 2012 |
|
2013
|
Best Short Story
|
The Unremarkable Heart
|
Karin Slaughter
|
Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown and Company - Mulholland Books
|
Anthology: Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance
|
|
2013 |
Best Short Story |
The Void it Often Brings with It |
Tom Piccirilli |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
Volume: November 2012 |
|
2012
|
Best Short Story
|
The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train
|
Peter Turnbull
|
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
|
|
|
2012 |
Best Short Story |
Lord John and the Plague of Zombies |
Diana Gabaldon |
Penguin Group USA - Ace Books |
Anthology: Down These Strange Streets |
|
2012 |
Best Short Story |
Marley's Revolution |
John C. Boland |
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine |
|
|
2012 |
Best Short Story |
The Adakian Eagle |
Bradley Denton |
Penguin Group USA - Ace Books |
Anthology: Down These Strange Streets |
|
2012 |
Best Short Story |
The Case of Death and Honey |
Neil Gaiman |
Random House - Bantam |
Anthology: A Study in Sherlock |
|
2012 |
Best Short Story |
Tomorrow's Dead |
David Dean |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
|
|
2011
|
Best Short Story
|
The Scent of Lilacs
|
Doug Allyn
|
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
|
|
|
2011 |
Best Short Story |
A Good Safe Place |
Judith Green |
Level Best Books |
Anthology: Thin Ice |
|
2011 |
Best Short Story |
Monsieur Alice is Absent |
Stephen Ross |
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine |
|
|
2011 |
Best Short Story |
The Creative Writing Murders |
Edmund White |
Bloomsbury |
Anthology: Dark End of the Street |
|
2011 |
Best Short Story |
The Plot |
Jeffery Deaver |
Tom Doherty Associates - Forge Books |
Anthology: First Thrills |
|
2010
|
Best Short Story
|
Amapola
|
Luis Alberto Urrea
|
Akashic Books
|
Anthology: Phoenix Noir
|
|
2010 |
Best Short Story |
Animal Rescue |
Dennis Lehane |
Akashic Books |
Anthology: Boston Noir |
|
2010 |
Best Short Story |
Digby, Attorney at Law |
Jim Fusilli |
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine |
Comment: May 2009 |
|
2010 |
Best Short Story |
Femme Sole |
Dana Cameron |
Akashic Books |
Anthology: Boston Noir |
|
2010 |
Best Short Story |
Last Fair Deal Gone Down |
Ace Atkins |
Busted Flush Press |
Comment: Crossroad Blues |
|
2009
|
Best Short Story
|
Skinhead Central
|
T. Jefferson Parker
|
Little, Brown and Company
|
Anthology: The Blue Religion
|
|
2009 |
Best Short Story |
A Sleep Not Unlike Death |
Sean Chercover |
Kensington Publishing |
Anthology: Hardcore Hardboiled |
|
2009 |
Best Short Story |
La Vie en Rose |
Dominique Mainard |
Akashic Books |
Anthology: Paris Noir |
|
2009 |
Best Short Story |
Scratch a Woman |
Laura Lippman |
HarperCollins - William Morrow |
Anthology: Hardly Knew Her |
|
2009 |
Best Short Story |
Skin and Bones |
David Edgerley Gates |
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine |
Volume: October 2008 |
|
2008
|
Best Short Story
|
The Golden Gopher
|
Susan Straight
|
Akashic Books
|
Anthology: Los Angeles Noir
|
|
2008 |
Best Short Story |
Blue Note |
Stuart M. Kaminsky |
Bleak House Books |
Anthology: Chicago Blues |
|
2008 |
Best Short Story |
Hardly Knew Her |
Laura Lippman |
Harcourt, Inc. |
Anthology: Dead Man's Hand |
|
2008 |
Best Short Story |
The Catch |
Mark Ammons |
Level Best Books |
Anthology: Still Waters |
|
2008 |
Best Short Story |
Uncle |
Daniel Woodrell |
Bleak House Books |
Anthology: A Hell of a Woman |
|
2007
|
Best Short Story
|
The Home Front
|
Charles Ardai
|
Little, Brown
|
Anthology: Death Do Us Part
|
|
2007 |
Best Short Story |
Building |
S.J. Rozan |
Akashic Books |
Anthology: Manhattan Noir |
|
2007 |
Best Short Story |
Cranked |
Bill Crider |
Busted Flush Press |
Anthology: Damn Near Dead |
|
2007 |
Best Short Story |
Rain |
Thomas H. Cook |
Akashic Books |
Anthology: Manhattan Noir |
|
2006
|
Best Short Story
|
The Catch
|
James W. Hall
|
Carroll & Graf
|
Anthology: Greatest Hits
|
|
2006 |
Best Short Story |
Born Bad |
Jeffery Deaver |
Mysterious Press |
Anthology: Dangerous Women |
|
2006 |
Best Short Story |
Her Lord and Master |
Andrew Klavan |
Mysterious Press |
Anthology: Dangerous Women |
|
2006 |
Best Short Story |
Misdirection |
Barbara Seranella |
Carroll & Graf |
Anthology: Greatest Hits |
|
2006 |
Best Short Story |
Welcome to Monroe |
Daniel Walker |
River City Publishing |
Anthology: A Kudzu Christmas |
|
2005
|
Best Short Story
|
Something About a Scar
|
Laurie Lynn Drummond
|
HarperCollins
|
Anthology: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You
|
|
2005 |
Best Short Story |
Adventure of the Missing Detective |
Gary Lovisi |
St. Martin's Minotaur |
Anthology: Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years |
|
2005 |
Best Short Story |
Imitate the Sun |
Luke Sholer |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
Volume: November 2004 |
|
2005 |
Best Short Story |
The Book Signing |
Pete Hamill |
Akashic Books |
Anthology: Brooklyn Noir |
|
2005 |
Best Short Story |
The Widow of Slane |
Terence Faherty |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
Volume: March/April 2004 |
|
2004
|
Best Short Story
|
The Maids
|
G. Miki Hayden
|
Berkley Prime Crime
|
Anthology: Blood on Their Hands
|
|
2004 |
Best Short Story |
Aces and Eights |
David Edgerley Gates |
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine |
Volume: December 2003 |
|
2004 |
Best Short Story |
Bet on Red |
Jeff Abbott |
NAL-Penguin |
Anthology: High Stakes |
|
2004 |
Best Short Story |
Black Heart & Cabin Girl |
Shelley Costa |
Berkley Prime Crime |
Anthology: Blood on Their Hands |
