2005
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Special Edgars
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David Chase
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Comment: writer/producer - The Sopranos, The Rockford Files, Kolchak: The Night Stalker and many other breakthrough TV shows
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2005
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Special Edgars
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Tom Fontana
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Comment: writer/producer - Homicide: Life on the Street, Oz, and The Jury and many other breakthrough TV shows
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2004
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Special Edgars
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Home Box Office
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HBO
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Comment: Home Box Office, in recognition of the creation and production of their ground-breaking crime
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2003
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Special Edgars
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Dick Wolf
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2002
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Special Edgars
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Blake Edwards
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2001
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Special Edgars
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Mildred Wirt Benson
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Comment: The original 'Carolyn Keene Author of the Nancy Drew Mystery Series
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1991
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Special Edgars
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The Encyclopedia of World Crime, Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Law Enforcement
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Jay Robert Nash
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Crime Books, Inc.
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1989
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Special Edgars
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Joan Kahn
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Comment: on her retirement after 50 years in mystery publishing
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1986
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Special Edgars
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Detective and Mystery Fiction: An International Bibliography of Secondary Sources
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Walter Albert
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Brownstone Books
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1985
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Special Edgars
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The Silent Shame
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Mark Nykaned
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NBC-TV
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Comment: news report on child-abuse crimes
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1984
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Special Edgars
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A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle
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John Michael Gibson, Richard Lancelyn Green
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Oxford University Press
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1983
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Special Edgars
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The Case of Dashiell Hammett
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Stephen Talbot
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PBS
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1982
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Special Edgars
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The Young Detective's Handbook
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William Vivian Butler
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HBO
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Comment: production of the William Gillette play
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1981
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Special Edgars
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Lawrence Spivak
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Comment: founding publisher of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine 40 years ago
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1981
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Special Edgars
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Mystery!
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Joan Wilson
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Comment: best in international programming; Series: PBS
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1981
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Special Edgars
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The Edge of Night
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unknown
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Comment: celebrating its 25th year as a TV series
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1980
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Special Edgars
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Dick Tracy
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Chester Gould
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Comment: creator of Dick Tracy nearly 50 years ago
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1980
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Special Edgars
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The Bibliography of Crimie Fiction, 1749 - 1975
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Allen J Hubin
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University Extension/University of California
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1980
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Special Edgars
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The Murderers' Who's Who
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J.H.H. Gaute, Robin Odell
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1979
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Special Edgars
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Frederic Dannay
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Comment: celebrating 50 years since the publication of his first novel
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1979
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Special Edgars
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Mignon C. Eberhart
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Comment: celebrating 50 years since the publicaton of his first novel
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1979
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Special Edgars
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Columbo and Ellery Queen TV series
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Richard Levinson, William Link
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1978
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Special Edgars
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Allen J Hubin
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Comment: for a decade as editor of The Armchair Detective
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1978
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Special Edgars
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Murder Ink
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Dilys Winn
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Workman
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1978
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Special Edgars
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Mystery Writer's Handbook
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Lawrence Treat
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1976
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Special Edgars
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Jorge Luis Borges
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Comment: for distinguished contribution to the mystery genre
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1976
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Special Edgars
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Encyclopedia Brown books
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Donald J. Sobol
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Comment: juvenile mystery
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1975
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Special Edgars
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Howard Haycraft
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Comment: for his distinguished contribution to mystery criticism and scholarship
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1975
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Special Edgars
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Royal Bloodline: Ellery Queen, Author and Detective
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Francis M. Nevins, Jr.
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Bowling Green Popular Press
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1974
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Special Edgars
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The Onion Field
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Joseph Wambaugh
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Delacorte Press
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1973
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Special Edgars
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Mortal Consequences: A History from the Detective Story to the Crime Novel
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Julian Symons
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Harper & Row
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1973
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Special Edgars
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Murder on the Menu
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Jeanine Larmoth, Charlotte Turgeon
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Scribners
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1972
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Special Edgars
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A Catalogue of Crime
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Jacques Barzun, Wendell Taylor
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Harper & Row
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1970
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Special Edgars
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John Dickson Carr
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Comment: in honor of his 40 years as a mystery writer
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1969
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Special Edgars
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Ellery Queen
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Comment: on the 40th anniversary of The Roman Hat Mystery
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1969
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Special Edgars
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Philip Wittenberg
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Comment: for voluntary service to MWA as general counsel
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1967
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Special Edgars
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Julius Fast
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Comment: as first winner of the Edgar 22 years ago
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1967
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Special Edgars
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Clayton Rawson
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Comment: for decades of service to the MWA
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1966
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Special Edgars
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The Gospel According to 007
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Reverend O.C. Edwards
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The Living Church
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1964
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Special Edgars
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Down These Mean Streets
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Philip Durham
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University of North Carolina Press
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1963
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Special Edgars
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Companion to Murder
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E. Spencer Shew
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Knopf
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Comment: two volume reference work
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1963
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Special Edgars
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Cops and Robbers
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Philip Reisman
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NBC
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1963
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Special Edgars
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The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow
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Patrick Quentin
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Random House
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Comment: collection of short stories
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1962
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Special Edgars
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The Annals of Murder
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Thomas M. McDade
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University of Oklahoma Press
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1961
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Special Edgars
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Charles Addams
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Comment: cartooinst of the macabre
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1961
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Special Edgars
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Elizabeth Daly
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Comment: grande dame of women mystery writers
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1961
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Special Edgars
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Philip Wittenberg
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Comment: legal counsel
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1959
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Special Edgars
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American Murder Ballads
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Olive Wooley Burt
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Oxford University Press
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1957
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Special Edgars
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Compulsion
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Meyer Levin
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Simon & Schuster
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1954
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Special Edgars
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The Frightened Wife and Other Murder Stories
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Rinehart & Co.
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1952
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Special Edgars
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Queen Quorum: The 125 Most Important Books of Detective-Crime-Mystery Short Stories
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Frederic Dannay, Manfred B. Lee
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Biblo and Tannen
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1951
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Special Edgars
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W.T. Brannon
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Comment: for general excellence in fact crime writing
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1951
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Special Edgars
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The Web
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Franklin Heller
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Comment: producer/director of MWA's TV show
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1950
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Special Edgars
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Ellery Queen
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Comment: for ten years' service through Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
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1950
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Special Edgars
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The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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John Dickson Carr
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Harper & Row
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1949
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Special Edgars
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Clayton Rawson
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Comment: for launching Clue magazine
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1949
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Special Edgars
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Marie Rodell
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Duell, Sloan & Pearce
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Comment: for her editorship of the Regional Murder series
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1949
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Special Edgars
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Arthur A. Stoughton
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Comment: president of the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences and custodian of Poe Cottage in Fordham for 26 years
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1949
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Special Edgars
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Peter W. Williams
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Comment: for creating the Edgar bust
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