* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Best Paperback Original | The Librarian | Larry Beinhart | Nation Books | |
| 2005 | Best Paperback Original | Twelve-Step Fandango | Chris Haslam | Dark Alley | |
| 2005 | Best Play | Spatter Pattern (Or, How I Got Away With It) | Neal Bell | Playwrights Horizons | |
| 2005 | Best Play | An Evening of Murder and the Like | Edward Musto | Barrow Group Studio Theatre | |
| 2005 | Best Play | Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life | Max Allan Collins | The Art House | |
| 2005 | Best Short Story | Something About a Scar | Laurie Lynn Drummond | HarperCollins | Anthology: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You |
| 2005 | Best Short Story | Adventure of the Missing Detective | Gary Lovisi | St. Martin's Minotaur | Anthology: Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years |
| 2005 | Best Short Story | Imitate the Sun | Luke Sholer | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November 2004 |
| 2005 | Best Short Story | The Book Signing | Pete Hamill | Akashic Books | Anthology: Brooklyn Noir |
| 2005 | Best Short Story | The Widow of Slane | Terence Faherty | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: March/April 2004 |
| 2005 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | State of Play | Paul Abbott | BBC America | |
| 2005 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Amnesia | Chris Lang | BBC America | |
| 2005 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Death in Holy Orders | Robert Jones | BBC Worldwide | Comment: based on the novel by P.D. James |
| 2005 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness | Peter Berry | Granada TV & WGBH Boston | |
| 2005 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | The Darkness of Light | Alan Whiting | Coastal Productions | Series: Wire in the Blood |
| 2005 | Best Young Adult | In Darkness, Death | Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler | Philomel | |
| 2005 | Best Young Adult | Jude | Kate Morgenroth | Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing | |
| 2005 | Best Young Adult | Missing Abby | Lee Weatherly | David Fickling Books | |
| 2005 | Best Young Adult | Story Time | Edward Bloor | Harcourt Children's Books | |
| 2005 | Best Young Adult | The Book of Dead Days | Marcus Sedgwick | Wendy Lamb Books/Random House Childrens | |
| 2005 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Grave Endings | Rochelle Krich | Ballantine | |
| 2005 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Murder in a Mill Town | P.B. Ryan | Berkley Prime Crime | |
| 2005 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Perfect Sax | Jerrilyn Farmer | HarperCollins - William Morrow | |
| 2005 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Scent of a Killer | Christiane Heggan | MIRA Books | |
| 2005 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | The Drowning Tree | Carol Goodman | Ballantine | |
| 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 | ||
| 2005 | The Ellery Queen Award | Carolyn Marino | Comment: Vice President/Executive Editor, HarperCollins | ||
| 2005 | The Grand Master | Marcia Muller | |||
| 2005 | The Raven Award | Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theatre | Founded by Steve Oney | ||
| 2005 | The Raven Award | DorothyL listserv | Diane Kovacs & Kara Robinson - co-founders | ||
| 2005 | The Raven Award | Murder by the Book | Martha Farrington, Owner | ||
| 2005 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Can't Catch Me | Thomas Morrissey | Akashic Books | Anthology: Brooklyn Noir |
| 2004 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith | Andrew Wilson | Bloomsbury | |
| 2004 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light | Patrick McGilligan | HarperCollins | |
| 2004 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium | Elizabeth Peters, Kristen Whitbread | Wm. Morrow | |
| 2004 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Mystery Women, Volume 3 | Colleen Barnett | Poisoned Pen Press | |
| 2004 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The American Police Novel: A History | Leroy Lad Panek | McFarland | |
| 2004 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Goodbye | Peter Blake, David E. Kelley | ABC | Series: The Practice, |
| 2004 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Coerced | Jonathan Greene | NBC | Series: Law & Order: SVU |
| 2004 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Mr. Monk and the 12th Man | Michael Angeli | USA | Series: Monk |
| 2004 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man | Daniel Dratch | USA | Series: Monk |
| 2004 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Probability | Rene Balcer, Gerry Conway | NBC | Comment: Teleplay by Conway, Story by Balcer & Conway |
| 2004 | Best Fact Crime | The Devil in the White City | Erik Larson | Random House - Crown Books | |
| 2004 | Best Fact Crime | And The Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan & the Lynching of Leo Frank | Steve Oney | Pantheon Books | |
| 2004 | Best Fact Crime | Black Dahlia Avenger - The True Story | Steve Hodel | Arcade Publishing | |
| 2004 | Best Fact Crime | Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders | Dick Lehr, Mitchell Zuckoff | HarperCollins | |
| 2004 | Best Fact Crime | Rothstein: The Life, Times & Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series | David Pietrusza | Carroll & Graf | |
| 2004 | Best First Novel | Death of a Nationalist | Rebecca Pawel | Soho Press | |
| 2004 | Best First Novel | 12 Bliss Street | Martha Conway | St. Martin's Minotaur | |
| 2004 | Best First Novel | Night of the Dance | James Hime | St. Martin's Minotaur | |
| 2004 | Best First Novel | Offer of Proof | Robert Heilbrun | HarperCollins - William Morrow | |
| 2004 | Best First Novel | The Bridge of Sighs | Olen Steinhauer | St. Martin's Minotaur | |
| 2004 | Best Juvenile | Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the Belfry | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Simon & Schuster/Atheneum | |
| 2004 | Best Juvenile | Dust | Arthur Slade | Wendy Lamb Books/Random House Childrens | |
| 2004 | Best Juvenile | Lily's Ghosts | Laura Ruby | HarperCollins Children's Books | |
| 2004 | Best Juvenile | Sammy Keyes and the Art of Deception | Wendelin Van Draanen | Knopf Books for Young Readers/Random House Childrens | |
| 2004 | Best Juvenile | The Malted Falcon | Bruce Hale | Harcourt Children's Books | |
| 2004 | Best Motion Picture | Dirty Pretty Things | Steve Knight | BBC, Celador Productions, Jones Company | |
| 2004 | Best Motion Picture | Monster | Patty Jenkins | MDP Worldwide | |
| 2004 | Best Motion Picture | Mystic River | Brian Helgeland | Malpaso Productions | |
| 2004 | Best Motion Picture | Runaway Jury | Matthew Chapman, Rick Cleveland, Brian Koppelman, David Levien | Twentieth Century Fox | |
| 2004 | Best Motion Picture | The Cooler | Frank Hannah, Wayne Kramer | Lions Gate Films | |
| 2004 | Best Novel | Resurrection Men | Ian Rankin | Little, Brown | |
| 2004 | Best Novel | Maisie Dobbs | Jacqueline Winspear | Soho Press | |
| 2004 | Best Novel | Out | Natsuo Kirino | Kodansha International | |
| 2004 | Best Novel | The Guards | Ken Bruen | St. Martin's Minotaur | |
| 2004 | Best Paperback Original | Find Me Again | Sylvia Maultash Warsh | Dundurn Group | |
| 2004 | Best Paperback Original | Cut and Run | Jeff Abbott | NAL-Penguin | |
| 2004 | Best Paperback Original | Southland | Nina Revoyr | Akashic Books | |
| 2004 | Best Paperback Original | The Last Witness | Joel Goldman | Pinnacle | |
| 2004 | Best Paperback Original | Wisdom of the Bones | Christopher Hyde | NAL-Penguin | |
| 2004 | Best Short Story | The Maids | G. Miki Hayden | Berkley Prime Crime | Anthology: Blood on Their Hands |
| 2004 | Best Short Story | Aces and Eights | David Edgerley Gates | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: December 2003 |
| 2004 | Best Short Story | Bet on Red | Jeff Abbott | NAL-Penguin | Anthology: High Stakes |
| 2004 | Best Short Story | Black Heart & Cabin Girl | Shelley Costa | Berkley Prime Crime | Anthology: Blood on Their Hands |
| 2004 | Best Short Story | Cowboy Grace | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Golden Gryphon | Anthology: The Silver Gryphon |
| 2004 | Best Young Adult | Acceleration | Graham McNamee | Wendy Lamb Books/Random House Childrens | |
| 2004 | Best Young Adult | Death and the Arrow | Chris Priestly | Knopf Books for Young Readers | |
| 2004 | Best Young Adult | Feast of Fools | Bridget Crowley | McElderry - Simon & Schuster | |
| 2004 | Best Young Adult | The Last Treasure | Janet Anderson | Dutton Children's Group | |
| 2004 | Best Young Adult | Uncovering Sadie's Secrets | Libby Sternberg | Bancroft Press | |
| 2004 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Song of the Bones | M.K. Preston | Intrigue Press | |
| 2004 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | A Bloodhound to Die For | Virginia Lanier | HarperCollins | |
| 2004 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Ricochet | Nancy Baker Jacobs | Five Star Publishing | |
| 2004 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Samurai's Daughter | Sujata Massey | HarperCollins | |
| 2004 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | The Body in the Lighthouse | Katherine Hall Page | HarperCollins - William Morrow | |
| 2004 | Special Edgars | Home Box Office | HBO | Comment: Home Box Office, in recognition of the creation and production of their ground-breaking crime | |
| 2004 | The Grand Master | Joseph Wambaugh | |||
| 2004 | The Raven Award | Ray and Pat Browne Library for Popular Culture Studies, Bowling Green University | In recognition of its long-standing work in collecting and preserving detective fiction | ||
| 2004 | The Raven Award | Vanity Fair Magazine | In recognition of their coverage of True Crime | ||
| 2004 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | The Grass is Always Greener | Sandy Balzo | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: March 2003 |
| 2003 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction | Mike Ashley | Carroll & Graf | |
| 2003 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Art of Noir | Eddie Muller | Overlook Press | |
| 2003 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Classic Era of Crime Fiction | Peter Haining | Chicago Review Press | |
| 2003 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Crime Films | Thomas Leitch | Cambridge University Press | |
| 2003 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Waste | Dawn Denoon, Lisa Marie Petersen | NBC/Universal Television | Series: Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit |
| 2003 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Ho Down | Bill Clark, Nicholas Wootton | ABC Television, Stephen Bocho Productions | Series: NYPD Blue |
| 2003 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Mr. Monk Takes A Vacation | Hy Conrad | OCPI Productions, USA and NBC | Series: Monk |
| 2003 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Target | Ed Burns, David Simon | HBO | Comment: Teleplay by David Simon, Story by David Simon and Ed Burns |