* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Book Jacket Award | Inspector Maigret and the Madwoman | Curtis Books | Comment: softcover | |
| 1974 | Book Jacket Award | The Cold Ones | Simon & Schuster | Comment: hardcover | |
| 1974 | Special Edgars | The Onion Field | Joseph Wambaugh | Delacorte Press | |
| 1974 | The Grand Master | Ross Macdonald | Comment: Ross Macdonald was the pseudonym used by Kenneth Millar | ||
| 1973 | Best Paperback Original | The Invader | Richard Wormser | Gold Medal | |
| 1973 | Best Paperback Original | Not Dead Yet | Daniel Banko | Gold Medal | |
| 1973 | Best Paperback Original | Power Kill | Charles Runyon | Gold Medal | |
| 1973 | Best Paperback Original | The Smith Conspiracy | Richard Neely | Signet | |
| 1973 | Best Short Story | The Purple Shroud | Joyce Harrington | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: September '72 |
| 1973 | Best Short Story | Celestine | George Bradshaw | Ladies' Home Journal | Volume: October '72 |
| 1973 | Best Short Story | Frightened Lady | C.B. Gilford | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '72 |
| 1973 | Best Short Story | Hijack | Robert L. Fish | Playboy | Volume: August '72 |
| 1973 | Best Short Story | Island of Bright Birds | John Christopher | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: February '72 |
| 1973 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | The Night Stalker | Richard Matheson | ABC | |
| 1973 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Lt. Schuster's Wife | Steven Bochco, Bernie Kukoff | ABC | |
| 1973 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | When Michael Calls | James Bridges | ABC | |
| 1973 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Your Money or Your Wife | J.P. Miller | CBS-TV | |
| 1973 | Book Jacket Award | Fetish Murders | Ace | Comment: softcover | |
| 1973 | Book Jacket Award | The Erection Set | E.P. Dutton | Comment: hardcover | |
| 1973 | Book Jacket Award | Dead Skip | Random House | Comment: hardcover | |
| 1973 | Book Jacket Award | Death can Be Beautiful | Dell | Comment: softcover | |
| 1973 | Book Jacket Award | Mrs. Knox's Profession | McKay | Comment: hardcover | |
| 1973 | Book Jacket Award | Rolling Gravestones | Dell | Comment: softcover | |
| 1973 | Book Jacket Award | Tricks of the Trade | G.P. Putnam's Sons | Comment: hardcover | |
| 1973 | Special Edgars | Mortal Consequences: A History from the Detective Story to the Crime Novel | Julian Symons | Harper & Row | |
| 1973 | Special Edgars | Murder on the Menu | Jeanine Larmoth, Charlotte Turgeon | Scribners | |
| 1973 | The Grand Master | Alfred Hitchcock | |||
| 1973 | The Grand Master | Judson Philips | |||
| 1973 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The New Mexico Connection | Glen A. Larson | NBC-TV | Series: McCloud |
| 1973 | Best Episode in a TV Series | A Date With Death | Mort Fine, Milton S. Gelman | NBC-TV | Series: Banyon |
| 1973 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Bait Once, Bait Twice | Will Lorin | CBS-TV | Series: Hawaii Five-O |
| 1973 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Crimson Halo | Simon Wincelberg | CBS-TV | Series: Mannix |
| 1973 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Victim in Shadow | Richard Bluel | ABC | Series: Owen Marshall, Counsellor-at-Law |
| 1973 | Best Fact Crime | Hoax | Lewis Chester, Stephen Fay, Magnus Linkletter | Viking | |
| 1973 | Best Fact Crime | Shipwreck | Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan Witts | Stein & Day | |
| 1973 | Best Fact Crime | The Santa Claus Bank Robbery | A.C. Greene | Knopf | |
| 1973 | Best Fact Crime | They Got To Find Me Guilty Yet | T.P. Slattery | Doubleday | |
| 1973 | Best First Novel | Squaw Point | R.H. Shimer | Harper & Row | |
| 1973 | Best First Novel | A Person Shouldn't Die Like That | Arthur Goldstein | Random House | |
| 1973 | Best First Novel | Box 100 | Frank Leonard | Harper & Row | |
| 1973 | Best First Novel | The Dead of Winter | William H. Hallahan | Bobbs-Merrill | |
| 1973 | Best First Novel | The Heart of the Dog | Thomas A. Roberts | Random House | |
| 1973 | Best Juvenile | Deathwatch | Robb White | Doubleday | |
| 1973 | Best Juvenile | Catch a Killer | George A. Woods | Harper & Row | |
| 1973 | Best Juvenile | Elizabeth's Tower | A.C. Stewart | S.G. Phillips | |
| 1973 | Best Juvenile | Uncle Robert's Secret | Wylly Folk St. John | Viking | |
| 1973 | Best Motion Picture | Sleuth | Anthony Shaffer | Twentieth Century Fox | |
| 1973 | Best Motion Picture | Frenzy | Anthony Shaffer | Universal | |
| 1973 | Best Motion Picture | The Carey Treatment | James P. Bonner | Belasco Productions | |
| 1973 | Best Motion Picture | The Hot Rock | William Goldman | Twentieth Century Fox | |
| 1973 | Best Motion Picture | Travels with My Aunt | Jay Presson Allen, Hugh Wheeler | MGM | |
| 1973 | Best Novel | The Lingala Code | Warren Kiefer | Random House | |
| 1973 | Best Novel | Canto for a Gypsy | Martin Cruz Smith | Putnam | |
| 1973 | Best Novel | Five Pieces of Jade | John Ball | Little, Brown | |
| 1973 | Best Novel | The Shooting Gallery | Hugh C. Rae | Coward, McCann & Geoghegan | |
| 1973 | Best Novel | Tied Up in Tinsel | Ngaio Marsh | Little, Brown | |
| 1972 | Best Episode in a TV Series | A Step in Time | Mann Rubin | CBS-TV | Series: Mannix |
| 1972 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Company Town | Cliff Gould | CBS-TV | Series: Cade's County |
| 1972 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Murder by the Book | Steven Bochco | NBC-TV | Series: Columbo |
| 1972 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Sombody's Out to Get Jennie | Robert Presnell Jr. | NBC-TV | Series: McCloud |
| 1972 | Best Fact Crime | Beyond A Reasonable Doubt | Sandor Frankel | Stein & Day | |
| 1972 | Best Fact Crime | The Disappearence of Dr. Parkman | Robert Sullivan | Little, Brown | |
| 1972 | Best Fact Crime | The Girl on the Volkswagen Floor | William A. Clark | Harper & Row | |
| 1972 | Best First Novel | Finding Maubee | A.H.Z. Carr | Putnam | |
| 1972 | Best First Novel | Ask the Right Question | Michael Lewin | Putnam | |
| 1972 | Best First Novel | Gypsy in Amber | Martin Cruz Smith | Putnam | |
| 1972 | Best First Novel | The Stalker | Bill Pronzini | Random House | |
| 1972 | Best First Novel | To Spite Her Face | Hildegarde Dolson | Lippincott | |
| 1972 | Best Juvenile | Nightfall | Joan Aiken | Holt, Rinehart & Winston | |
| 1972 | Best Juvenile | Goody Hall | Natalie Babbitt | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | |
| 1972 | Best Juvenile | Mystery in Wales | Mabel Esther Allan | Vanguard | |
| 1972 | Best Juvenile | The Ghost of Ballyhooly | Betty Cavanna | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1972 | Best Motion Picture | The French Connection | Ernest Tidyman | Twentieth Century Fox | |
| 1972 | Best Motion Picture | Dirty Harry | Harry Julian Fink, Rita N. Fink, Dean Riesner | Warner Bros. | |
| 1972 | Best Motion Picture | Klute | Andy Lewis, Dave Lewis | Warner Bros. | |
| 1972 | Best Motion Picture | See No Evil | Brian Clemens | Columbia | |
| 1972 | Best Motion Picture | Willard | Gilbert A. Ralston | Cinerama | |
| 1972 | Best Novel | The Day of the Jackal | Frederick Forsyth | Viking | |
| 1972 | Best Novel | Shroud for a Nightingale | P.D. James | Scribners | |
| 1972 | Best Novel | Sir, You Bastard | G.F. Newman | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1972 | Best Novel | The Fly on the Wall | Tony Hillerman | Harper & Row | |
| 1972 | Best Novel | Who Killed Enoch Powell? | Arthur Wise | Harper & Row | |
| 1972 | Best Paperback Original | For Murder I Charge More | Frank McAuliffe | Ballantine | |
| 1972 | Best Paperback Original | And the Deep Blue Sea | Charles Williams | Signet | |
| 1972 | Best Paperback Original | Nor Spell, Nor Charm | Alicen White | Lancer Books | |
| 1972 | Best Paperback Original | Space for Hire | William F. Nolan | Lancer Books | |
| 1972 | Best Paperback Original | The White Wolverine Contract | Philip Atlee | Gold Medal | |
| 1972 | Best Short Story | Moonlight Gardener | Robert L. Fish | Argosy | Volume: December '71 |
| 1972 | Best Short Story | My Daughter is Dead | Pauline C. Smith | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '71 |
| 1972 | Best Short Story | Sardinian Incident | Evan Hunter | Playboy | Volume: October '71 |
| 1972 | Best Short Story | The Spivvleton Mystery | Katherine Anne Porter | Ladies' Home Journal | Volume: August '71 |
| 1972 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Thief | John D.F. Black | ABC | |
| 1972 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Dr. Cook's Garden | Art Wallace | ABC | |
| 1972 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | See the Man Run | Mann Rubin | ABC | |
| 1972 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Vanished | Dean Riesner | NBC-TV | |
| 1972 | Book Jacket Award | Black Man, White Man | Ace | Comment: softcover | |
| 1972 | Book Jacket Award | If You Want to See Your Wife Again | G.P. Putnam's Sons | Comment: hardcover | |
| 1972 | Book Jacket Award | The Lady of the Lake | Ballantine | Comment: softcover | |
| 1972 | Book Jacket Award | The Shadows of the House | Avon | Comment: softcover | |
| 1972 | Book Jacket Award | The Stalker | Random House | Comment: hardcover |