* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Best Novel | Come to Grief | Dick Francis | Putnam | |
| 1996 | Best Novel | The Bookman's Wake | John Dunning | Scribners | |
| 1996 | Best Novel | The Roaring Boy | Edward Marston | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1996 | Best Novel | The Shadow Man | John Katzenbach | Ballantine | |
| 1996 | Best Novel | The Summons | Peter Lovesey | Mysterious/Warner | |
| 1996 | Best Paperback Original | Tarnished Blue | William Heffernan | Onyx | |
| 1996 | Best Paperback Original | Charged With Guilt | Gloria White | Dell | |
| 1996 | Best Paperback Original | Deal Breaker | Harlan Coben | Dell | |
| 1996 | Best Paperback Original | Hard Frost | R.D. Wingfield | Bantam | |
| 1996 | Best Paperback Original | High Desert Malice | Kirk Mitchell | Avon | |
| 1996 | Best Short Story | The Judge's Boy | Jean B Cooper | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: August '95 |
| 1996 | Best Short Story | A Plain and Honest Death | Bill Pomidor | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: Sept. '95 |
| 1996 | Best Short Story | Death in a Small Town | Larry Beinhart | New Mystery | Volume: Spring '95 |
| 1996 | Best Short Story | Rule of Law | K.K. Beck | Pocket Books | Anthology: Malice Domestic |
| 1996 | Best Short Story | When Your Breath Freezes | Kathleen Dougherty | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: Sept. '95 |
| 1996 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Citizen X | Chris Gerolmo | HBO | |
| 1996 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | A Dark Adapted Eye | Sandy Welch | PBS | Series: Mystery! |
| 1996 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Indictment: The McMartin Trial | Abby Mann, Myra Mann | HBO | |
| 1996 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Shadow of a Doubt | Brian Dennehy, Bill Phillips | NBC-TV | Comment: pilot, |
| 1996 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Sugar Time | Martyn Burke | HBO | |
| 1996 | Best Young Adult | Prophecy Rock | Rob MacGregor | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1996 | Best Young Adult | Angel's Gate | Gary Crew | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1996 | Best Young Adult | In the Middle of the Night | Robert Cormier | Delacorte Press | |
| 1996 | Best Young Adult | Spirit Seeker | Joan Lowery Nixon | Delacorte Press | |
| 1996 | Best Young Adult | Spying on Miss Muller | Eve Bunting | Clarion Books | |
| 1996 | The Ellery Queen Award | Jacques Barzun | |||
| 1996 | The Grand Master | Dick Francis | |||
| 1996 | The Raven Award | Library of America | Comment: for their publication of the collected writings of Raymond Chandler | ||
| 1996 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | The Word for Breaking August Sky | James Sarafin | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '95 |
| 1995 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Encyclopedia Mysteriosa | William L. DeAndrea | Prentice-Hall | |
| 1995 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | By a Woman's Hand | Dean James, Jean Swanson | Berkley | |
| 1995 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Dick Tracey and American Culture | Garyn G. Roberts | McFarland | |
| 1995 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Great Women Mystery Writers | Kathleen Gregory Klein | Greenwood Press | |
| 1995 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Tony Hillerman Companion | Martin Greenberg | HarperCollins | |
| 1995 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Simone Says | Steven Bochco, Walon Green, David Milch | Twentieth Century Fox/ABC-TV | Series: NYPD Blue |
| 1995 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Family Values | Rene Balcer, William N. Fordes | NBC-TV | Series: Law and Order, Law and Order |
| 1995 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Pilot Episode/Episode One | Jacqueline Zambrano | CBS-TV | Series: Under Suspicion |
| 1995 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Erlenmeyer Flask | Chris Carter | Twentieth Century Fox | Series: The X-Files |
| 1995 | Best Fact Crime | To Protect and Serve | Joe Domanick | Pocket Books | |
| 1995 | Best Fact Crime | Before He Wakes | Jerry Bledsoe | Dutton | |
| 1995 | Best Fact Crime | Breakdown | Eileen McNamara | Pocket Books | |
| 1995 | Best Fact Crime | In the Best of Families | Dennis McDougal | Warner Books | |
| 1995 | Best Fact Crime | Mississippi Mud | Edward Humes | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1995 | Best First Novel | The Caveman's Valentine | George Dawes Green | Warner Books | |
| 1995 | Best First Novel | Big Town | Doug J. Swanson | HarperCollins | |
| 1995 | Best First Novel | Mallory's Oracle | Carol O'Connell | Putnam | |
| 1995 | Best First Novel | One For the Money | Janet Evanovich | Scribners | |
| 1995 | Best First Novel | Suspicion of Innocence | Barbara Parker | Dutton | |
| 1995 | Best Juvenile | The Absolutely True Story..How I Visited Yellowstone Park with the Terrible Rubes | Willo Davis Roberts | Atheneum | |
| 1995 | Best Juvenile | Caught | Willo Davis Roberts | Atheneum | |
| 1995 | Best Juvenile | Harvey's Mystifying Racoon Mix Up | Eth Clifford | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1995 | Best Juvenile | Hester Bidgood Investigatrix of Eveil Deeds | E.W. Hildick | Macmillan | |
| 1995 | Best Juvenile | Trouble Will Find You | Joan M. Lexau | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1995 | Best Motion Picture | Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | Miramax | |
| 1995 | Best Motion Picture | Blink | Dana Stevens | New Line Cinema | |
| 1995 | Best Motion Picture | Speed | Graham Yost | Twentieth Century Fox | |
| 1995 | Best Motion Picture | The Last Seduction | Steve Barancik | ITC Entertainment | |
| 1995 | Best Novel | The Red Scream | Mary Willis Walker | Doubleday | |
| 1995 | Best Novel | A Long Line of Dead Men | Lawrence Block | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1995 | Best Novel | Lights Out | Peter Abrahams | Mysterious | |
| 1995 | Best Novel | Miami, It's Murder | Edna Buchanan | Hyperion | |
| 1995 | Best Novel | Wednesday's Child | Peter Robinson | Scribners | |
| 1995 | Best Paperback Original | Final Appeal | Lisa Scottoline | Harper | |
| 1995 | Best Paperback Original | Power of Attorney | Walter Sorrells | Avon | |
| 1995 | Best Paperback Original | Sunrise | Chassie West | Harper | |
| 1995 | Best Paperback Original | The Broken-Hearted Detective | Milton Bass | Pocket Books | |
| 1995 | Best Paperback Original | Viper Quarry | Dean Feldmeyer | Pocket Books | |
| 1995 | Best Short Story | The Dancing Bear | Doug Allyn | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: March '94 |
| 1995 | Best Short Story | An Eye for a Tooth | Justin Scott | Longmeadow Press | Anthology: Justice in Manhattan |
| 1995 | Best Short Story | The Gentleman in the Lake | Robert Barnard | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '94 |
| 1995 | Best Short Story | The Necessary Brother | Brendan DuBois | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '94 |
| 1995 | Best Short Story | The Tennis Court | Brenda Melton Burnham | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '94 |
| 1995 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Cracker: To Say I Love You | Jimmy McGovern | A & E | Series: A & E Mystery |
| 1995 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Prime Suspect 3 | Lynda LaPlante | PBS | Series: Mystery! |
| 1995 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Secret Sins of the Father | Lillian Samuel | NBC-TV | |
| 1995 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Thicker Than Water | Trevor Preston | A & E | Series: A&E Mystery |
| 1995 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Unnatural Causes | Peter Buckman | PBS | Series: Mystery! |
| 1995 | Best Young Adult | Toughing It | Nancy Springer | Harcourt Brace | |
| 1995 | Best Young Adult | Pale Phoenix | Kathryn Reiss | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1995 | Best Young Adult | Poison | Alane Ferguson | Bradbury | |
| 1995 | Best Young Adult | Shadowmaker | Joan Lowery Nixon | Delacorte Press | |
| 1995 | Best Young Adult | The Midnight Club | Christopher Pike | Pocket Books | |
| 1995 | The Ellery Queen Award | Martin Greenberg | |||
| 1995 | The Grand Master | Mickey Spillane | |||
| 1995 | The Raven Award | Dr. Paul LeClerc | Comment: President, New York Public Library | ||
| 1995 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Me and Mr. Harry | Batya Swift Yasgur | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: December '94 |
| 1994 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Saint: A Complete History | Burl Barer | McFarland & Co. | |
| 1994 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | A Reader's Guide to the American Novel of Detection | Marvin Lachman | G.K. Hall | |
| 1994 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul | Barbara Reynolds | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1994 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Fine Art of Murder | Jon L. Breen, Ed Gorman, Martin Greenberg, Larry Segriff | Carroll & Graf | |
| 1994 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Man Who Wasn't Maigret | Patrick Marnham | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | |
| 1994 | Best Episode in a TV Series | 4B or Not 4B | David Milch | ABC | Series: NYPD Blue |
| 1994 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Conduct Unbecoming | Rene Balcer, Michael S. Chernuchin | NBC-TV | Series: Law & Order, Law & Order |
| 1994 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Promised Land | Julian Mitchell | WGBH | Comment: Mystery! |
| 1994 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Rising Sun | Stephen Kronish | ABC | Series: The Commish |
| 1994 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Turpitude | David E. Kelley | CBS-TV | Series: Picket Fences |
| 1994 | Best Fact Crime | Until the Twelfth of Never | Bella Stumbo | Pocket Books | |
| 1994 | Best Fact Crime | Final Justice | Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith | Dutton | |
| 1994 | Best Fact Crime | Gone in the Night | David Protess, Rob Warden | Delacorte Press | |
| 1994 | Best Fact Crime | Lindbergh: The Crime | Noel Behn | Atlantic Monthly/Grove |