* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Special Edgars | Murder Ink | Dilys Winn | Workman | |
| 1978 | Special Edgars | Mystery Writer's Handbook | Lawrence Treat | ||
| 1978 | The Grand Master | Daphne du Maurier | |||
| 1978 | The Grand Master | Dorothy B. Hughes | |||
| 1978 | The Grand Master | Ngaio Marsh | |||
| 1978 | The Raven Award | Barney Miller | Danny Arnold | ABC | Comment: executive producer of the TV series |
| 1978 | The Raven Award | Dracula on Broadway | Edward Gorey | Comment: for the sets he designed for Dracula on Broadway | |
| 1978 | The Raven Award | I Am My Brother's Keeper | Richard N. Hughes | WPIX | Comment: for being the best showcase for mystery stories |
| 1978 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Rex Stout | John McAleer | Little, Brown | |
| 1978 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | An Autobiography | Agatha Christie | Dodd, Mead | |
| 1978 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Encyclopedia Sherlockiana | Jack Tracy | Doubleday | |
| 1978 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Thighbone Is Connected to the Knee Bone | Tony Lawrence, Lou Shaw | NBC-TV | Series: Quincy |
| 1978 | Best Episode in a TV Series | In the Event of My Death | Jerome Coopersmith | ABC | Series: The Andros Targets |
| 1978 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Deadly Maze | Juanita Bartlett | NBC-TV | Series: The Rockford Files |
| 1978 | Best Fact Crime | By Persons Unknown | Barbara Amiel, George Jonas | Grove Press | |
| 1977 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection | Marvin Lachman, Otto Penzler, Charles Shibuk, Chris Steinbrunner | McGraw-Hill | |
| 1977 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Agatha Christie Mystery | Derrick Murdoch | Pagurian Press | |
| 1977 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Dangerous Edge | Gavin Lambert | Grossman | |
| 1977 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Life of Raymond Chandler | Frank McShane | Dutton | |
| 1977 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Mystery Story | John Ball | University of California at San Diego Publishers | |
| 1977 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Requiem for Murder | James J. Sweeney | ABC | Series: Streets of San Francisco |
| 1977 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Dear Tony | Norman Hudis | ABC | Series: Baretta |
| 1977 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Oracle Wore a Cashmere Suit | David Chase | NBC-TV | Series: The Rockford Files |
| 1977 | Best Fact Crime | Blood and Money | Thomas Thompson | Doubleday | |
| 1977 | Best Fact Crime | Murder in Coweta County | Margaret Anne Barnes | Reader's Digest Press | |
| 1977 | Best Fact Crime | The Michigan Murders | Edward Keyes | Reader's Digest Press | |
| 1977 | Best First Novel | The Thomas Berryman Number | James Patterson | Little, Brown | |
| 1977 | Best First Novel | Final Proof | Marie R. Reno | Harper & Row | |
| 1977 | Best First Novel | Straight | Steve Knickmeyer | Random House | |
| 1977 | Best First Novel | The Big Pay-Off | Janice Law | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1977 | Best First Novel | Your Day in the Barrel | Alan Furst | Atheneum | |
| 1977 | Best Juvenile | Are You in the House Alone? | Richard Peck | Viking | |
| 1977 | Best Juvenile | Mr. Moon's Last Case | Brian Patten | Scribners | |
| 1977 | Best Juvenile | The Chalk Cross | Berthe Amoss | Seabury Press | |
| 1977 | Best Juvenile | The Master Puppeteer | Katherine Peterson | Crowell | |
| 1977 | Best Juvenile | Wiley and the Hairy Man | Molly Garrett Bang | Macmillan | |
| 1977 | Best Motion Picture | Family Plot | Ernest Lehman | Universal | |
| 1977 | Best Motion Picture | Carrie | Lawrence D. Cohen | United Artists | |
| 1977 | Best Motion Picture | Marathon Man | William Goldman | Paramount | |
| 1977 | Best Motion Picture | The Omen | David Seltzer | Twentieth Century Fox | |
| 1977 | Best Novel | Promised Land | Robert B. Parker | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1977 | Best Novel | A Madness of the Heart | Richard Neely | Crowell | |
| 1977 | Best Novel | The Cavanaugh Quest | Thomas Gifford | Putnam | |
| 1977 | Best Novel | The Glory Boys | Gerald Seymour | Random House | |
| 1977 | Best Novel | The Main | Trevanian | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1977 | Best Paperback Original | Confess, Fletch | Gregory McDonald | Avon | |
| 1977 | Best Paperback Original | Freeze Frame | R.R. Irvine | Popular Library | |
| 1977 | Best Paperback Original | The Captive City | Daniel Da Cruz | Ballantine | |
| 1977 | Best Paperback Original | The Dark Side | Kenn Davis, John Stanley | Avon | |
| 1977 | Best Paperback Original | The Retaliators | Donald Hamilton | Fawcett | |
| 1977 | Best Short Story | Like a Terrible Scream | Etta Revesz | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '76 |
| 1977 | Best Short Story | Crazy Old Lady | Avram Davidson | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: March '76 |
| 1977 | Best Short Story | Lavender Lady | Barbara Callahan | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: April '76 |
| 1977 | Best Short Story | Nobody Tells Me Anything | Jack Ritchie | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: October '76 |
| 1977 | Best Short Story | People Don't Do Such Things | Ruth Rendell | Doubleday | Anthology: The Fallen Curtain |
| 1977 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Helter-Skelter | J.P. Miller | CBS-TV | |
| 1977 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Law and Order | E. Jack Neuman | NBC-TV | |
| 1977 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | One of My Wives is Missing | Pierre Marton | ABC | |
| 1977 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Sherlock Holmes in New York | Alvin Sapinsley Jr. | NBC-TV | |
| 1976 | Best Episode in a TV Series | No Immunity for Murder | Joe Gores | CBS-TV | Series: Kojak |
| 1976 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Murder Comes in Little Pills | Robert Foster, Milt Rosen | CBS-TV | Series: Kate McShane |
| 1976 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Mark of Cain | Leonard Katzman | NBC-TV | Series: Petrocelli |
| 1976 | Best Fact Crime | A Time To Die | Tom Wicker | Quadrangle NY Times | |
| 1976 | Best Fact Crime | Invitation to a Lynching | Gene Miller | Doubleday | |
| 1976 | Best Fact Crime | The House on Garibaldi Street | Isser Harel | Viking | |
| 1976 | Best First Novel | The Alvarez Journal | Rex Burns | Harper & Row | |
| 1976 | Best First Novel | Harmattan | Thomas Klop | Bobbs-Merrill | |
| 1976 | Best First Novel | Paperback Thriller | Lynn Meyer | Random House | |
| 1976 | Best First Novel | The Devalino Caper | A.J. Russell | Random House | |
| 1976 | Best First Novel | Waltz Across Texas | Max Crawford | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | |
| 1976 | Best Juvenile | Z for Zachariah | Robert C. O'Brien | Atheneum | |
| 1976 | Best Juvenile | Great Steamboat Mystery | Richard Scarry | Random House | |
| 1976 | Best Juvenile | No More Magic | Avi | Pantheon | |
| 1976 | Best Juvenile | The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues | Ellen Raskin | Dutton | |
| 1976 | Best Motion Picture | Three Days of the Condor | David Rayfiel, Lorenzo Semple Jr. | Paramount | |
| 1976 | Best Motion Picture | Black Christmas | Roy Moore | Warner Bros. | |
| 1976 | Best Motion Picture | Farewell, My Lovely | David Zelag Goodman | AVCO-Embassy | |
| 1976 | Best Motion Picture | The Drowning Pool | Walter Hill, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Tracy Keenan Wynn | Warner Bros. | |
| 1976 | Best Novel | Hopscotch | Brian Garfield | M. Evans | |
| 1976 | Best Novel | Harry's Game | Gerald Seymour | Random House | |
| 1976 | Best Novel | Operation Alcestic | Maggie Rennert | Prentice-Hall | |
| 1976 | Best Novel | The Gargoyle Conspiracy | Marvin Albert | Doubleday | |
| 1976 | Best Novel | The Money Harvest | Ross Thomas | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1976 | Best Paperback Original | Autopsy | John R. Feegel | Avon | |
| 1976 | Best Paperback Original | Charlie's Back in Town | Jacqueline Park | Popular Library | |
| 1976 | Best Paperback Original | The Assassination | David Vowell | Bantam | |
| 1976 | Best Paperback Original | The Midas Coffin | Simon Quinn | Dell | |
| 1976 | Best Paperback Original | The Set-Up | Milt Machlin, Robin Moore | Pyramid | |
| 1976 | Best Short Story | The Jail | Jesse Hill Ford | Playboy | Volume: March '75 |
| 1976 | Best Short Story | Night Crawlers | Joyce Harrington | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: January '75 |
| 1976 | Best Short Story | Old Friends | Dorothy Salisbury Davis | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: September, '75 |
| 1976 | Best Short Story | The Fall of the Coin | Ruth Rendell | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '75 |
| 1976 | Best Short Story | The Many-Flavored Crime | Jack Ritchie | Mystery Digest Magazine | Volume: December '75 |
| 1976 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | The Legend of Lizzie Borden | William Bast | ABC | |
| 1976 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case | Harold Gast | NBC-TV | |
| 1976 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Hustling | Fay Kanin | ABC | |
| 1976 | Special Edgars | Jorge Luis Borges | Comment: for distinguished contribution to the mystery genre | ||
| 1976 | Special Edgars | Encyclopedia Brown books | Donald J. Sobol | Comment: juvenile mystery | |
| 1976 | The Grand Master | Graham Greene | |||
| 1976 | The Raven Award | Eddie Lawrence | Comment: Reader of the Year |