* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Best Novel | The Spy's Wife | Reginald Hill | Pantheon | |
| 1981 | Best Paperback Original | Public Murders | Bill Granger | Jove Books | |
| 1981 | Best Paperback Original | Blood Innocents | Thomas H. Cook | Playboy | |
| 1981 | Best Paperback Original | Looking for Ginger North | John Dunning | Fawcett | |
| 1981 | Best Paperback Original | Tough Luck, L.A. | Murray Sinclair | Pinnacle | |
| 1981 | Best Play | Ricochet | Paul Nathan | Comment: off-Broadway show | |
| 1981 | Best Short Story | Horn Man | Clark Howard | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '80 |
| 1981 | Best Short Story | The Choirboy | William Bankier | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: December '80 |
| 1981 | Best Short Story | The Most Dangerous Man Alive | Edward D. Hoch | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '80 |
| 1981 | Best Short Story | Until You Are Dead | John Lutz | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: January '80 |
| 1981 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | City in Fear | Albert Ruben | ABC | |
| 1981 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Revenge of the Stepford Wives | David Wiltse | NBC-TV | |
| 1981 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | The Last Song | Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz | CBS-TV | |
| 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 | |
| 1981 | The Grand Master | Stanley Ellin | |||
| 1980 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Dorothy L. Sayers, A Literary Biography | Ralph E. Hone | Kent State University Press | |
| 1980 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | As Her Whimsey Took Her | Margaret Hannay | Kent State University Press | |
| 1980 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Sherlock Holmes, The Man and His World | H.R.F. Keating | Scribners | |
| 1980 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Secret of Grown-Ups | Vera Caspary | McGraw-Hill | |
| 1980 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Skin | Robin Chapman, Roald Dahl | Anglia Ltd. | Series: Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected |
| 1980 | Best Episode in a TV Series | A Hollywood Whodunit | Michelle Gallery | CBS-TV | Series: Lou Grant |
| 1980 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Only the Pretty Girls Die | Mark Rodgers | NBC-TV | Series: Eischield |
| 1980 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Stone | Stephen J. Cannell | ABC | Series: Stone |
| 1980 | Best Fact Crime | The Falcon and the Snowman | Robert Lindsey | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1980 | Best Fact Crime | Anyone's Daughter | Shana Alexander | Viking | |
| 1980 | Best Fact Crime | Blood Will Tell | Gary Cartwright | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1980 | Best Fact Crime | Sentenced to Die | Stephen H. Gettinger | Macmillan | |
| 1980 | Best Fact Crime | Zebra | Clark Howard | Marek | |
| 1980 | Best First Novel | The Lasko Tangent | Richard North Patterson | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1980 | Best First Novel | Follow the Leader | John Logue | Crown | |
| 1980 | Best First Novel | Night Trains | Peter Heath Fine | Lippincott | |
| 1980 | Best Juvenile | The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore | Joan Lowery Nixon | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1980 | Best Juvenile | Chameleon Was a Spy | Diane Redfield Massie | Crowell | |
| 1980 | Best Juvenile | Mystery Cottage in Left Field | Remus F. Caroselli | Putnam | |
| 1980 | Best Juvenile | Mystery of the Eagle's Claw | Frances Wosmek | Westminster Press | |
| 1980 | Best Juvenile | The Whispered Horse | Lynn Hall | Follett | |
| 1980 | Best Motion Picture | The Great Train Robbery | Michael Crichton | United Artists | |
| 1980 | Best Motion Picture | Murder by Decree | John Hopkins | AVCO-Embassy | |
| 1980 | Best Motion Picture | Time After Time | Nicholas Meyer | Orion | |
| 1980 | Best Novel | The Rheingold Route | Arthur Maling | Harper & Row | |
| 1980 | Best Novel | A Coat of Varnish | C.P. Snow | Scribners | |
| 1980 | Best Novel | Death of a Mystery Writer | Robert Barnard | Scribners | |
| 1980 | Best Novel | Fire in the Barley | Frank Parrish | Dodd, Mead | |
| 1980 | Best Novel | Make Death Love Me | Ruth Rendell | Doubleday | |
| 1980 | Best Paperback Original | The Hog Murders | William L. DeAndrea | Avon | |
| 1980 | Best Paperback Original | The Infernal Device | Michael Kurland | NAL | |
| 1980 | Best Paperback Original | The Kremlin Conspiracy | Sean Flannery | Charter | |
| 1980 | Best Paperback Original | The Queen is Dead | Glen Keger | Jove Books | |
| 1980 | Best Paperback Original | Vortex | David Heller | Avon | |
| 1980 | Best Play | Deathtrap | Ira Levin | ||
| 1980 | Best Short Story | Armed and Dangerous | Geoffrey Norman | Esquire | Volume: March '79 |
| 1980 | Best Short Story | Scrimshaw | Brian Garfield | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: December '79 |
| 1980 | Best Short Story | The Boiler | Julian Symons | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '79 |
| 1980 | Best Short Story | The Imperial Ice House | Paul Theroux | Atlantic Monthly | Volume: April '79 |
| 1980 | Best Short Story | Used In Evidence | Frederick Forsyth | Playboy | Volume: December '79 |
| 1980 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Murder by Natural Causes | Richard Levinson, William Link | CBS-TV | |
| 1980 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Nero Wolfe | Frank Gilroy | ABC | |
| 1980 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Salem's Lot | Paul Monash | CBS-TV | |
| 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 | ||
| 1980 | The Grand Master | W.R. Burnett | |||
| 1980 | The Raven Award | Muppet Murders | Muppet Show | ||
| 1979 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Mystery of Agatha Christie | Gwen Robins | Doubleday | |
| 1979 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case of the Real Perry Mason | Dorothy B. Hughes | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1979 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Detective in Hollywood | John Tuska | Doubleday | |
| 1979 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Tell-Tale Heart: The Life and Work of Edgar Allan Poe | Julian Symons | Harper & Row | |
| 1979 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Murder Under Glass | Robert Van Scoyk | NBC-TV | Series: Columbo |
| 1979 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Murder on the Flip Side | Lee Sheldon | NBC-TV | Series: Eddie Capra Mysteries |
| 1979 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Vega$ | Michael Mann | ABC | Series: Vega$ |
| 1979 | Best Fact Crime | Till Death Do Us Part | Vincent Bugliosi, Ken Hurwitz | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1979 | Best Fact Crime | Criminal Violence | Charles Silberman | Random House | |
| 1979 | Best Fact Crime | Perjury | Alan Weinstein | Knopf | |
| 1979 | Best Fact Crime | Why Have They Taken Our Children? | Jack W. Baugh, Jefferson Morgan | Delacorte Press | |
| 1979 | Best First Novel | Killed in the Ratings | William L. DeAndrea | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1979 | Best First Novel | Blood Secrets | Craig Jones | Harper & Row | |
| 1979 | Best First Novel | Falling Angel | William Hjortsberg | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1979 | Best First Novel | The Memory of Eva Ryker | Donald A. Stanwood | Coward, McCann & Geoghegan | |
| 1979 | Best First Novel | The Scourge | Thomas L. Dunne | Coward, McCann & Geoghegan | |
| 1979 | Best Juvenile | Alone in Wolf Hollow | Dana Brookins | Seabury Press | |
| 1979 | Best Juvenile | Emily Upham's Revenge | Avi | Pantheon | |
| 1979 | Best Juvenile | The Bassumtyte Treasure | Jean Louise Curry | Atheneum | |
| 1979 | Best Juvenile | The Case of the Secret Scribbler | E.W. Hildick | Macmillan | |
| 1979 | Best Juvenile | The Halloween Pumpkin Smasher | Judith St. George | Putnam | |
| 1979 | Best Motion Picture | Magic | William Goldman | Twentieth Century Fox | |
| 1979 | Best Motion Picture | Death on the Nile | Anthony Shaffer | Paramount | |
| 1979 | Best Motion Picture | Foul Play | Collin Higgins | Paramount | |
| 1979 | Best Motion Picture | Somebody Killed Her Husband | Reginald Rose | Columbia | |
| 1979 | Best Motion Picture | The Big Fix | Roger L. Simon | Universal | |
| 1979 | Best Novel | The Eye of the Needle | Ken Follett | Arbor House | |
| 1979 | Best Novel | A Sleeping Life | Ruth Rendell | Doubleday | |
| 1979 | Best Novel | Listening Woman | Tony Hillerman | Harper & Row | |
| 1979 | Best Novel | The Shallow Grave | Jack S. Scott | Harper & Row | |
| 1979 | Best Novel | The Snake | John Godey | Putnam | |
| 1979 | Best Paperback Original | Deceit and Deadly Lies | Frank Bandy | Charter | |
| 1979 | Best Paperback Original | Charnel House | Graham Masterton | Pinnacle | |
| 1979 | Best Paperback Original | Heartstone | Philip Margolin | Pocket Books | |
| 1979 | Best Paperback Original | Stud Game | David Anthony | Pocket Books |