* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Best Short Story | Yellow One-Eyed Cat | Robert Twohy | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '85 |
| 1986 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Guilty Conscience | Richard Levinson, William Link | CBS-TV | |
| 1986 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Deadly Messages | William Bleich | ABC | |
| 1986 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Doubletake | John Gay | CBS-TV | |
| 1986 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Love on the Run | Sue Grafton, Steve Humphrey | NBC-TV | |
| 1986 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Perry Mason Returns | Dean Hargrove | NBC-TV | |
| 1986 | Special Edgars | Detective and Mystery Fiction: An International Bibliography of Secondary Sources | Walter Albert | Brownstone Books | |
| 1986 | The Grand Master | Ed McBain | |||
| 1986 | The Raven Award | Suzi Oppenheimer | Comment: Reader of the Year | ||
| 1986 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Final Rites | Doug Allyn | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: December '85 |
| 1985 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Novel Verdicts: A Guide to Courtroom Fiction | Jon L. Breen | Scarecrow Press | |
| 1985 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Inward Journey: Ross MacDonald | Ralph B. Sipper | Cordelia Editions | |
| 1985 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | One Lonely Knight: Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer | Max Allan Collins, James L. Traylor | Bowling Green Popular Press | |
| 1985 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Ross Macdonald | Matthew J. Bruccoli | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1985 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The James Bond Bedside Companion | Raymond Benson | Dodd, Mead | |
| 1985 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Deadly Lady | Peter S. Fischer | CBS-TV | Series: Murder, She Wrote |
| 1985 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Miami Vice | Anthony Yerkovich | NBC-TV | Series: Miami Vice |
| 1985 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Seven Dead Eyes | Joe Gores | CBS-TV | Series: Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer |
| 1985 | Best Fact Crime | Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings | Mike Weiss | Addison-Wesley | |
| 1985 | Best Fact Crime | Earth to Earth | John Cornwell | Ecco Press | |
| 1985 | Best Fact Crime | Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs | Jim Atkinson, John Bloom | Texas Monthly Press | |
| 1985 | Best Fact Crime | Murder at the Met | David Black | Dial | |
| 1985 | Best Fact Crime | The Molineux Affair | Jane Pejsa | Kenwood Publishing | |
| 1985 | Best First Novel | Strike Three, You're Dead | R.D. Rosen | Walker | |
| 1985 | Best First Novel | A Creative Kind of Killer | Jack Early | Franklin Watts | |
| 1985 | Best First Novel | Foul Shot | Doug Hornig | Scribners | |
| 1985 | Best First Novel | Someone Else's Grave | Alison Smith | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1985 | Best First Novel | Sweet, Savage Death | Orania Papazoglou | Doubleday | |
| 1985 | Best Juvenile | Night Cry | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Atheneum | |
| 1985 | Best Juvenile | Chameleon the Spy and the Case of the Vanishing Jewels | Diane Redfield Massie | Harper & Row | |
| 1985 | Best Juvenile | The Ghosts of Now | Joan Lowery Nixon | Delacorte Press | |
| 1985 | Best Juvenile | The Island on Bird Street | Uri Orlev | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1985 | Best Juvenile | The Third Eye | Lois Duncan | Little, Brown | |
| 1985 | Best Motion Picture | A Soldier's Story | Charles Fuller | Columbia | |
| 1985 | Best Motion Picture | Beverly Hills Cop | Daniel Petrie Jr. | Paramount | |
| 1985 | Best Motion Picture | The Little Drummer Girl | Loring Mandel | Warner Bros. | |
| 1985 | Best Novel | Briar Patch | Ross Thomas | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1985 | Best Novel | Chessplayer | William Pearson | Viking | |
| 1985 | Best Novel | Emily Dickinson is Dead | Jane Langton | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1985 | Best Novel | The Black Seraphim | Michael Gilbert | Harper & Row | |
| 1985 | Best Novel | The Twelfth Juror | B.M. Gill | Scribners | |
| 1985 | Best Paperback Original | Grandmaster | Molly Cochran, Warren Murphy | Pinnacle | |
| 1985 | Best Paperback Original | Black Knight in Red Square | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Charter | |
| 1985 | Best Paperback Original | The Keys to Billy Tillio | Eric Blau | Pinnacle | |
| 1985 | Best Paperback Original | The Seventh Sacrament | Roland Cutler | Dell | |
| 1985 | Best Paperback Original | Words Can Kill | Kenn Davis | Fawcett Crest | |
| 1985 | Best Short Story | By Dawn's Early Light | Lawrence Block | Playboy | Volume: August '84 |
| 1985 | Best Short Story | After I'm Gone | Donald E. Westlake | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '84 |
| 1985 | Best Short Story | Breakfast at Ojai | Robert Twohy | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: September '84 |
| 1985 | Best Short Story | Season Pass | Chet Williamson | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: October '84 |
| 1985 | Best Short Story | The Reluctant Detective | Michael Lewin | Mysterious Press | Anthology: The Eyes Have It |
| 1985 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | The Glitter Dome | Stanley Kallis | HBO | |
| 1985 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Celebrity | William Hanley | NBC-TV | |
| 1985 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Fatal Vision | John Gay | NBC-TV | |
| 1985 | Special Edgars | The Silent Shame | Mark Nykaned | NBC-TV | Comment: news report on child-abuse crimes |
| 1985 | The Ellery Queen Award | Joan Kahn | |||
| 1985 | The Grand Master | Dorothy Salisbury Davis | |||
| 1985 | The Raven Award | Eudora Welty | Comment: Reader of the Year | ||
| 1985 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Poor Dumb Mouths | Bill Crenshaw | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '84 |
| 1984 | Best Short Story | The New Girlfriend | Ruth Rendell | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: August '83 |
| 1984 | Best Short Story | Big Boy, Little Boy | Simon Brett | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '83 |
| 1984 | Best Short Story | Graffiti | Stanley Ellin | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: March '83 |
| 1984 | Best Short Story | Puerto Rican Blues | Clark Howard | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: April '83 |
| 1984 | Best Short Story | The Anderson Boy | Joseph Hansen | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: September '83 |
| 1984 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Mickey Spillane's Murder Me, Murder You | Bill Stratton | CBS-TV | |
| 1984 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Jane Doe | Walter Halsey Davis, Cynthia Mandelberg | CBS-TV | |
| 1984 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Murder in Coweta County | Dennis Nemec | CBS-TV | |
| 1984 | Special Edgars | A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle | John Michael Gibson, Richard Lancelyn Green | Oxford University Press | |
| 1984 | The Grand Master | John le Carre | |||
| 1984 | The Raven Award | Sylvia Porter | Comment: Reader of the Year | ||
| 1984 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Locked Doors | Lilly Carlson | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: October '83 |
| 1984 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock | Donald Spoto | Little, Brown | |
| 1984 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Dashiell Hammett | Diane Johnson | Random House | |
| 1984 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Mystery of Georges Simenon | Fenton Bresler | Beaufort | |
| 1984 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Poetics of Murder | Glen W. Most, William W. Stowe | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1984 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Pencil | Jo Eisinger | HBO | Series: Philip Marlowe |
| 1984 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Altered Steele | Jeff Melvoin | NBC-TV | Series: Remington Steele |
| 1984 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Grand Illision | E. Jack Kaplan | CBS-TV | Series: Simon & Simon |
| 1984 | Best Fact Crime | Very Much A Lady | Shana Alexander | Little, Brown | |
| 1984 | Best Fact Crime | Deadly Force | Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1984 | Best Fact Crime | Judgement Day | B.C. Hall, Bob Lancaster | Seaview Putnam | |
| 1984 | Best Fact Crime | Son | Jack Olsen | Atheneum | |
| 1984 | Best Fact Crime | The Von Bulow Affair | William Wright | Delacorte Press | |
| 1984 | Best First Novel | The Bay Psalm Book Murder | Will Harriss | Walker | |
| 1984 | Best First Novel | Caroline Minuscule | Andrew Taylor | Dodd, Mead | |
| 1984 | Best First Novel | Dead Man's Thoughts | Carolyn Wheat | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1984 | Best First Novel | Red Diamond, Private Eye | Mark Schorr | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1984 | Best First Novel | The Gold Solution | Herbert Resnicow | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1984 | Best Juvenile | The Callender Papers | Cynthia Voigt | Atheneum | |
| 1984 | Best Juvenile | Shadrach's Crossing | Avi | Pantheon | |
| 1984 | Best Juvenile | The Dollhouse Murders | Betty Ren Wright | Holiday House | |
| 1984 | Best Juvenile | The Griffin Legacy | Jan O'Donnell Klaveness | Macmillan | |
| 1984 | Best Juvenile | The Maze Stone | Eileen Dunlop | Coward-McCann | |
| 1984 | Best Motion Picture | Gorky Park | Dennis Potter | Orion | |
| 1984 | Best Motion Picture | Hammett | Dennis O'Flaherty, Ross Thomas | Warner Bros. | |
| 1984 | Best Motion Picture | Psycho II | Tom Holland | Universal | |
| 1984 | Best Novel | La Brava | Elmore Leonard | Arbor House | |
| 1984 | Best Novel | Texas Station | Christopher Leach | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1984 | Best Novel | The Little Drummer Girl | John le Carre | Knopf | |
| 1984 | Best Novel | The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |