* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 1984 | Best Novel | The Papers of Tony Veitch | William McIlvanney | Pantheon | |
| 1984 | Best Paperback Original | Mrs. White | Margaret Tracy | Dell | |
| 1984 | Best Paperback Original | False Prophets | Sean Flannery | Charter | |
| 1984 | Best Paperback Original | Hunter | Eric Sauter | Avon | |
| 1984 | Best Paperback Original | Kill Factor | Richard Harper | Fawcett | |
| 1984 | Best Paperback Original | Trace | Warren Murphy | Signet | |
| 1983 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Cain | Roy Hoopes | Holt, Rinehart & Winston | |
| 1983 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Gun in Cheek | Bill Pronzini | Coward, McCann & Geoghegan | |
| 1983 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Modus Operandi | Robin W. Winks | David R. Godine | |
| 1983 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Police Procedural | George M. Dove | Bowling Green Popular Press | |
| 1983 | Best Episode in a TV Series | In The Steele of the Night | Joel Steiger | NBC-TV | Series: Remington Steele |
| 1983 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Ashes to Ashes, None Too Soon | Bob Shayne | CBS-TV | Series: Simon & Simon |
| 1983 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Matt Houston | Richard Christian Danus, Ken Trevey | ABC | Series: Matt Houston, Matt Houston |
| 1983 | Best Fact Crime | The Vatican Connection | Richard Hammer | Holt, Rinehart & Winston | |
| 1983 | Best Fact Crime | Big Bucks | Ernest Tidyman | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1983 | Best Fact Crime | Deadly Intentions | William Randolph Stevens | Congdon & Weed | |
| 1983 | Best Fact Crime | Indecent Exposure | David McClintock | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1983 | Best Fact Crime | Somebody is Lying: The Story of Doctor X. | Myron Farber | Doubleday | |
| 1983 | Best First Novel | The Butcher'sBoy | Thomas Perry | Scribners | |
| 1983 | Best First Novel | By Frequent Anguish | S.F.X. Dean | Walker | |
| 1983 | Best First Novel | In the Heat of the Summer | John Katzenbach | Atheneum | |
| 1983 | Best First Novel | Two If By Sea | Ernest Savage | Scribners | |
| 1983 | Best First Novel | Unholy Communion | Richard Hughes | Doubleday | |
| 1983 | Best Juvenile | The Murder of Hound Dog Bates | Robbie Branscum | Viking | |
| 1983 | Best Juvenile | Cadbury's Coffin | Glendon Swarthout, Kathryn Swarthout | Doubleday | |
| 1983 | Best Juvenile | Clone Catcher | Alfred Slote | Lippincott | |
| 1983 | Best Juvenile | Kept in the Dark | Nina Bawden | Lothrop, Lee & Shepard | |
| 1983 | Best Juvenile | The Case of the Cop Catchers | Terrance Dicks | Lodestar-Dutton | |
| 1983 | Best Motion Picture | The Long Good Friday | Barrie Keeffe | Handmade Films | |
| 1983 | Best Motion Picture | 48 Hours | Steven E. de Souza, Larry Gross, Walter Hill, Roger Spottiswoode | Paramount | |
| 1983 | Best Motion Picture | Evil Under the Sun | Anthony Shaffer | Universal | |
| 1983 | Best Motion Picture | Still of the Night | Robert Benton | MGM/United Artists | |
| 1983 | Best Novel | Billingsgate Shoal | Rick Boyer | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1983 | Best Novel | Eight Million Ways to Die | Lawrence Block | Arbor House | |
| 1983 | Best Novel | Kahawa | Donald E. Westlake | Viking | |
| 1983 | Best Novel | Split Images | Elmore Leonard | Arbor House | |
| 1983 | Best Novel | The Captain | Seymour Shubin | Stein & Day | |
| 1983 | Best Paperback Original | Triangle | Teri White | Ace/Charter | |
| 1983 | Best Paperback Original | Clandestine | James Ellroy | Avon | |
| 1983 | Best Paperback Original | The Missing and the Dead | Jack Lynch | Fawcett | |
| 1983 | Best Paperback Original | Vital Signs | Ralph Burrows, M.D. | Fawcett | |
| 1983 | Best Short Story | There Are No Snakes in Ireland | Frederick Forsyth | Viking | Anthology: No Comebacks |
| 1983 | Best Short Story | A Decent Price for a Painting | James Holding | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: August '82 |
| 1983 | Best Short Story | All the Heroes Are Dead | Clark Howard | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: December '82 |
| 1983 | Best Short Story | Tall Tommy and the Millionaire | R.R. Rafferty | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: September '82 |
| 1983 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Rehearsal for Murder | Richard Levinson, William Link | CBS-TV | |
| 1983 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | One Shoe Makes It Murder | Felix Culver | CBS-TV | |
| 1983 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | The Big Easy | Lee Hutson | ABC | |
| 1983 | Special Edgars | The Case of Dashiell Hammett | Stephen Talbot | PBS | |
| 1983 | The Ellery Queen Award | Emma Lathen | Comment: AKA: Mary Jane Latsis and Martha Henissart | ||
| 1983 | The Grand Master | Margaret Millar | |||
| 1983 | The Raven Award | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Comment: Reader of the Year | ||
| 1982 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | What About Murder? | Jon L. Breen | Scarecrow Press | |
| 1982 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler | Frank MacShane | Columbia University Press | |
| 1982 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Annotated Tales of Edgar Allan Poe | Stephen Peithman | Doubleday | |
| 1982 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Whodunit | Stefano Benvenuti, Gianni Rizzoni | Macmillan | |
| 1982 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | TV Detectives | Richard Meyers | A.S. Barnes & Co. | |
| 1982 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Hill Street Station | Steven Bochco, Michael Kozoll | NBC-TV | Series: Hill Street Blues |
| 1982 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Simon Eyes | Philip DeGuere | CBS-TV | Series: Simon & Simon |
| 1982 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Stain of Guilt | Sam Egan | NBC-TV | Series: Quincy |
| 1982 | Best Fact Crime | The Sting Man | Robert W. Greene | Dutton | |
| 1982 | Best Fact Crime | By Reason of Doubt | Ellen Godfrey | Clarke, Irwin & Co. | |
| 1982 | Best Fact Crime | Papa's Game | Gregory Wallance | Rawson Wade | |
| 1982 | Best Fact Crime | The Day They Stole the Mona Lisa | Seymore V. Reit | Summit | |
| 1982 | Best Fact Crime | The Minds of Billy Milligan | Daniel Keyes | Random House | |
| 1982 | Best First Novel | Chiefs | Stuart Woods | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1982 | Best First Novel | Giant Killer | Vernon Tom Hyman | Marek | |
| 1982 | Best First Novel | Murder at the Red October | Anthony Olcott | Academy Chicago | |
| 1982 | Best First Novel | Not A Through Street | Ernest Larsen | Random House | |
| 1982 | Best First Novel | The Black Glove | Geoffrey Miller | Viking | |
| 1982 | Best Juvenile | Taking Terri Mueller | Norma Fox Mazer | Avon | |
| 1982 | Best Juvenile | Detective Mole and the Halloween Mystery | Robert Quackenbush | Lothrop, Lee & Shepard | |
| 1982 | Best Juvenile | Detour to Danger | Eva-Lis Wuorio | Delacorte Press | |
| 1982 | Best Juvenile | Hoops | Walter Dean Myers | Delacorte Press |