* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Best Young Adult | Guilt Trip | Stephen Schwandt | Atheneum | |
| 1991 | Best Young Adult | The Secret Keeper | Gloria Whelan | Knopf | |
| 1991 | Best Young Adult | Zachary | Ernest Pintoff | Eriksson | |
| 1991 | Special Edgars | The Encyclopedia of World Crime, Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Law Enforcement | Jay Robert Nash | Crime Books, Inc. | |
| 1991 | The Grand Master | Tony Hillerman | |||
| 1991 | The Raven Award | Carol Brener | Comment: for her skill in selling books to the public | ||
| 1991 | The Raven Award | Sarah Booth Conroy | Comment: Reader of the Year | ||
| 1991 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Willie's Story | Jerry F. Skarky | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '90 |
| 1990 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Life of Graham Greene | Norman Sherry | Viking | Volume: Volume I: 1904-1939 |
| 1990 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Film Noir: Reflections in a Dark Mirror | Bruce Crowther | Continuum | |
| 1990 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Murder on the Air | Ric Meyers | Mysterious Press | |
| 1990 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Mysterium and Mystery: The Clerical Crime Novel | William David Spencer | UMI Research Press | |
| 1990 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Perfect Murder: A Study in Detection | David Lehman | Free Press/Macmillan | |
| 1990 | Best Episode in a TV Series | White Noise | David J. Burke, Alfonse Ruggiero Jr. | CBS-TV | Series: Wiseguy |
| 1990 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Blues for Buder | Robert B. Parker, Joan Parker | ABC | |
| 1990 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Investment in Death | Nick Gore, Jerry Jacobius | NBC-TV | Series: Hunter |
| 1990 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Rumpole and the Bubble Reputation | John Mortimer | WGBH | Series: Mystery! |
| 1990 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Urine Trouble Now | William M. Finkelstein, Michelle Gallery, David E. Kelley, Judith Parker | NBC-TV | Series: L.A. Law |
| 1990 | Best Fact Crime | Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell | Jack Olsen | Atheneum | |
| 1990 | Best Fact Crime | Murder in Little Egypt | Darcy O'Brien | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1990 | Best Fact Crime | The Blooding: The True Story of the Narborough Village Murders | Joseph Wambaugh | Perigord/Morrow | |
| 1990 | Best Fact Crime | The Death Shift: The True Story of Nurse Genene Jones and the Texas Baby Murders | Peter Elkind | Viking | |
| 1990 | Best Fact Crime | Wasted: The Preppie Murder | Linda Wolfe | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1990 | Best First Novel | The Last Billable Hour | Susan Wolfe | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1990 | Best First Novel | Blood Under the Bridge | Bruce Zimmerman | Harper & Row | |
| 1990 | Best First Novel | Hide and Seek | Barry Berg | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1990 | Best First Novel | The Mother Shadow | Melodie Johnson Howe | Viking | |
| 1990 | Best First Novel | The Story of Annie D. | Susan Taylor Chehak | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1990 | Best Motion Picture | Heathers | Daniel Waters | New World | |
| 1990 | Best Motion Picture | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Woody Allen | Orion | |
| 1990 | Best Motion Picture | Licence to Kill | Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson | United Artists | |
| 1990 | Best Motion Picture | Sea of Love | Richard Price | Universal | |
| 1990 | Best Motion Picture | True Believer | Wesley Strick | Columbia | |
| 1990 | Best Novel | Black Cherry Blues | James Lee Burke | Little, Brown | |
| 1990 | Best Novel | A Question of Guilt | Frances Fyfield | Pocket Books | |
| 1990 | Best Novel | Death of a Joyce Scholar | Bartholomew Gill | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1990 | Best Novel | Goldilocks | Andrew Coburn | Scribners | |
| 1990 | Best Novel | The Booster | Eugene Izzi | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1990 | Best Paperback Original | The Rain | Keith Peterson | Bantam | |
| 1990 | Best Paperback Original | A Collector of Photographs | Deborah Valentine | Bantam | |
| 1990 | Best Paperback Original | Hot Wire | Randy Russell | Bantam | |
| 1990 | Best Paperback Original | Kind of the Hustlers | Eugene Izzi | Bantam | |
| 1990 | Best Paperback Original | Manhattan Is My Beat | Jeffery Deaver | Bantam | |
| 1990 | Best Play | City of Angels | Larry Gelbart | Comment: music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by David Zippel | |
| 1990 | Best Short Story | Too Many Crooks | Donald E. Westlake | Playboy | Volume: August '89 |
| 1990 | Best Short Story | Afraid All theTime | Nancy Pickard | Berkley | Anthology: Sisters in Crime |
| 1990 | Best Short Story | For Loyal Service | Stephen Wasylyk | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: August '89 |
| 1990 | Best Short Story | Ted Bundy's Father | Ruth Graviros | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '89 |
| 1990 | Best Short Story | The Girl and the Gator | Robert Halsted | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: December '89 |
| 1990 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Shannon's Deal | John Sayles | NBC-TV | |
| 1990 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Game, Set, and Match | John Howlett | PBS | |
| 1990 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Miss Marple: Murder at the Vicarage | Trevor R. Bowen | PBS | |
| 1990 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | The Hollywood Detective | Christopher Crowe | USA | |
| 1990 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Turn Back the Clock | Lindsay Harrison, Lee Hutson | NBC-TV | |
| 1990 | Best Young Adult | Show Me the Evidence | Alane Ferguson | Bradbury | |
| 1990 | Best Young Adult | Fell Back | M.E. Kerr | Harper & Row | |
| 1990 | Best Young Adult | Remember Me | Christopher Pike | Archway | |
| 1990 | Best Young Adult | Sniper | Theodore Taylor | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1990 | Best Young Adult | The Man Who Was Poe | Avi | Orchard Books | |
| 1990 | The Ellery Queen Award | Joel Davis | |||
| 1990 | The Grand Master | Helen McCloy | |||
| 1990 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Hawks | Connie Holt | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '89 |
| 1989 | Best Young Adult | Second Fiddle | Ronald Kidd | Lodestar-Dutton | |
| 1989 | Best Young Adult | Shadow in the North | Philip Pullman | Knopf | |
| 1989 | Best Young Adult | The Accident | Todd Strasser | Delacorte Press | |
| 1989 | Best Young Adult | The Falcon Sting | Barbara Brenner | Bradbury | |
| 1989 | Special Edgars | Joan Kahn | Comment: on her retirement after 50 years in mystery publishing | ||
| 1989 | The Ellery Queen Award | Richard Levinson | |||
| 1989 | The Ellery Queen Award | William Link | |||
| 1989 | The Grand Master | Hillary Waugh | |||
| 1989 | The Raven Award | Bouchercon Annual World Mystery Convention | |||
| 1989 | The Raven Award | Shear Madness | Marilyn Abrams, Bruce Jordan | Cranberry Productions | Comment: for longest running off-Broadway play, |
| 1989 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Different Drummers | Linda O. Johnston | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '88 |
| 1989 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die | Francis M. Nevins, Jr. | Mysterious Press | |
| 1989 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Silk Stalkings: When Women Write of Murder | Victoria Nichols, Susan Thompson | Black Lizard | |
| 1989 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Sisters in Crime: Feminism and the Crime Novel | Maureen T. Reddy | Continuum | |
| 1989 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Dime Detectives | Ron Goulart | Mysterious Press | |
| 1989 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Devil's Foot | Gary Hopkins | WGBH | Series: Mystery! |
| 1989 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Date with an Angel | David J. Burke, Stephen Kronish | CBS-TV | Series: Wiseguy |
| 1989 | Best Episode in a TV Series | May the Road Rise Up | Richard C. Okie | CBS-TV | Series: Simon & Simon |
| 1989 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Rumpole and the Bright Seraphim | John Mortimer | WGBH | Series: Mystery! |
| 1989 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Black Tower, Episode 1 | William Humble | WGBH | Series: Mystery! |
| 1989 | Best Fact Crime | In Broad Daylight | Harry N. MacLean | Harper & Row | |
| 1989 | Best Fact Crime | A Gathering of Saints | Robert Lindsey | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1989 | Best Fact Crime | Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring | Pete Earley | Bantam | |
| 1989 | Best Fact Crime | Monkey on a Stick | Lindsey Gruson, John Hubner | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1989 | Best Fact Crime | The Cocaine Wars | Paul Eddy, Hugo Sabogal, Sara Walden | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1989 | Best First Novel | Carolina Skeletons | David Stout | Mysterious Press | |
| 1989 | Best First Novel | A Great Deliverance | Elizabeth George | Bantam | |
| 1989 | Best First Novel | Julian Solo | Shelley Reuben | Dodd, Mead | |
| 1989 | Best First Novel | Murder Once Done | Mary Lou Bennett | Perseverance Press | |
| 1989 | Best First Novel | The Murder of Frau Schutz | J. Madison Davis | Walker | |
| 1989 | Best Juvenile | Megan's Island | Willo Davis Roberts | Atheneum | |
| 1989 | Best Juvenile | Following the Mystery Man | Mary Downing Hahn | Clarion Books | |
| 1989 | Best Juvenile | Is There Anybody There? | Eve Bunting | Lippincott | |
| 1989 | Best Juvenile | Something Upstairs | Avi | Orchard Books | |
| 1989 | Best Juvenile | The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb | John Bellairs | Dial | |
| 1989 | Best Motion Picture | The Thin Blue Line | Errol Morris | Miramax | |
| 1989 | Best Motion Picture | A Fish Called Wanda | John Cleese | MGM | |
| 1989 | Best Motion Picture | Die Hard | Steven E. de Souza, Jeb Stuart | Twentieth Century Fox |