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