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1957
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The Raven Award
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Dorothy Kilgallen
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Comment: Reader of the Year
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1956
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Best Episode in a TV Series
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A Taste of Honey
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Alvin Sapinsley Jr.
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ABC
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Series: Elgin Hour
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1956 |
Best Episode in a TV Series |
Thin Air |
Ben Starr |
CBS-TV |
Series: Climax |
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1956
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Best Fact Crime
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Dead and Gone
|
Manly Wade Wellman
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University of North Carolina Press
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1956 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Assassins |
Robert J. Donovan |
Harper |
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1956 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Truth About Belle Gunness |
Lillian de la Torre |
Gold Medal |
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1956
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Best First Novel
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The Perfectionist
|
Lane Kauffman
|
Lippincott
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1956 |
Best First Novel |
In His Blood |
Harold R. Daniels |
Dell |
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1956 |
Best First Novel |
Much Ado About Murder |
Fred Levon |
Dodd, Mead |
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1956
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Best Foreign film
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Diabolique
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Henri-Georges Clouzot
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Filmsonor
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1956
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Best Motion Picture
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The Desperate Hours
|
Joseph Hayes
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Paramount
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1956
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Best Novel
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Beast in View
|
Margaret Millar
|
Random House
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|
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1956 |
Best Novel |
The Case of the Talking Bug |
The Gordons |
Doubleday |
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1956 |
Best Novel |
The Talented Mr. Ripley |
Patricia Highsmith |
Coward-McCann |
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1956
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Best Short Story
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Dream No More
|
Philip MacDonald
|
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
|
Volume: November '55
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1956 |
Best Short Story |
Invitation to an Accident |
Wade Miller |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
Volume: July '55 |
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1956
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Book Jacket Award
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Scribners
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1955
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Best Episode in a TV Series
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Smoke
|
Gore Vidal
|
CBS-TV
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Series: Suspense
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1955 |
Best Episode in a TV Series |
The Long Goodbye |
E. Jack Neuman |
CBS-TV |
Series: Climax |
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1955
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Best Fact Crime
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The Girl with the Scarlet Brand
|
Charles Boswell, Lewis Thompson
|
Fawcett
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1955
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Best First Novel
|
Go, Lovely Rose
|
Jean Potts
|
Scribners
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1955
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Best Motion Picture
|
Rear Window
|
John Michael Hayes
|
Paramount
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1955
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Best Novel
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The Long Goodbye
|
Raymond Chandler
|
Houghton Mifflin
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1955
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Best Play
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Witness for the Prosecution
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Agatha Christie
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1955
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Best Radio Drama
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The Tree
|
Stanley Niss
|
CBS
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Series: 21st Precinct
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1955
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Best Short Story
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The House Party
|
Stanley Ellin
|
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
|
Volume: May '54
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1955
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Book Jacket Award
|
Berton Roueche
|
|
Dell
|
Comment: softcover
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1955
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Book Jacket Award
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Eleven Blue Men
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Little, Brown
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1955
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Outstanding Mystery Criticism
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|
Drexel Drake
|
Chicago Tribune
|
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1955
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The Grand Master
|
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Agatha Christie
|
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1954
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Best Episode in a TV Series
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Crime at Blossom's
|
Jerome Ross
|
CBS-TV
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Series: Studio One
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1954
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Best Fact Crime
|
Why Did They Kill?
|
John Bartlow Martin
|
Ballantine
|
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1954
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Best First Novel
|
A Kiss Before Dying
|
Ira Levin
|
Simon & Schuster
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1954
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Best Motion Picture
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The Big Heat
|
Sidney Boehm, William P. McGivern
|
Columbia
|
Comment: Boehm is the screenwriter, McGivern is the author of the novel
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1954
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Best Novel
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Beat Not the Bones
|
Charlotte Jay
|
Harper
|
|
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1954
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Best Radio Drama
|
The Shot
|
E. Jack Neuman
|
CBS
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Series: Suspense
|
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1954
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Best Short Story
|
Someone Like You
|
Roald Dahl
|
Knopf
|
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1954
|
Outstanding Mystery Criticism
|
|
Brett Halliday
|
Westport Town Crier
|
Comment: and other Connecticut papers
|
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1954
|
Outstanding Mystery Criticism
|
|
Helen McCloy
|
Westport Town Crier
|
Comment: and other Connecticut papers
|
|
1954
|
Special Edgars
|
The Frightened Wife and Other Murder Stories
|
Mary Roberts Rinehart
|
Rinehart & Co.
|
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1954
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The Raven Award
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|
Dr. Thomas A. Gonzales
|
|
Comment: retiring medical examiner, New York City
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1954
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The Raven Award
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|
Tom Lehrer
|
|
Comment: for his mystery parodies
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1954
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The Raven Award
|
|
Dr. Harrison Martland
|
|
Comment: retiring medical examiner, Essex County, New Jersey
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1953
|
Best Episode in a TV Series
|
Dragnet
|
Jack Webb
|
NBC-TV
|
Comment: and Michael Meshekoff, Producer
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1953
|
Best Fact Crime
|
Court of Last Resort
|
Erle Stanley Gardner
|
Wm. Sloane Association
|
|
|
1953
|
Best First Novel
|
Don't Cry for Me
|
William Campbell Gault
|
Dutton
|
|
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1953 |
Best First Novel |
The Inward Eye |
Peggy Bacon |
Scribners |
|
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1953
|
Best Motion Picture
|
Five Fingers
|
Otto Lang, Michael G. Wilson
|
Twentieth Century Fox
|
Comment: Lang is the producer
|
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1953
|
Best Play
|
Dial M for Murder
|
Frederick Knott
|
|
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1953
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Best Radio Drama
|
The Mysterious Traveler
|
Robert Arthur, David Kogan
|
Mutual Broadcasting System
|
|
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1953
|
Best Short Story
|
Something to Hide
|
Philip MacDonald
|
Doubleday
|
|
|
1953
|
Outstanding Mystery Criticism
|
|
Anthony Boucher
|
New York Times
|
Comment: and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
|
|
1953
|
The Raven Award
|
|
E.T. Guymon Jr
|
|
Comment: for his outstanding library of mystery literature
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1952
|
Best Episode in a TV Series
|
The Web
|
Franklin Heller
|
CBS-TV
|
Comment: and Goodson-Todman, package producers of the show
|
|
1952
|
Best Fact Crime
|
True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality
|
St. Clair McKelway
|
Random House
|
|
|
1952 |
Best Fact Crime |
Lady: Killers |
W.T. Brannon |
Quinn |
|
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1952
|
Best First Novel
|
Strangle Hold
|
Mary McMullen
|
Harper
|
|
|
1952 |
Best First Novel |
Carry My Coffin Slowly |
Lee Herrington |
Simon & Schuster |
|
|
1952 |
Best First Novel |
Cure it with Honey |
Thurston Scott |
Harper |
|
|
1952 |
Best First Novel |
The Christmas Card Murders |
David William Meredith |
Knopf |
|
|
1952 |
Best First Novel |
The Eleventh Hour |
Robert B. Sinclair |
Mill |
|
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1952
|
Best Motion Picture
|
Detective Story
|
Sidney Kingsley, Robert Wyler, Philip Yordan
|
Paramount
|
Comment: Kingsley wrote the stage play on which the screen version was based, Wyler and Yordan were the screenwriters
|
|
1952 |
Best Motion Picture |
The Man with a Cloak |
John Dickson Carr |
MGM |
Comment: based on the novel by Carr |
|
1952 |
Best Motion Picture |
The People Against O'Hara |
Eleazar Lipsky |
MGM |
Comment: based on the novel by Lipsky |
|
1952
|
Best Radio Drama
|
Dragnet
|
James Moser, Jack Webb
|
NBC
|
|
|
1952
|
Best Short Story
|
Fancies and Goodnights
|
John Collier
|
Doubleday
|
|
|
1952 |
Best Short Story |
Full Cargo |
Wilbur Daniel Steele |
Doubleday |
|
|
1952 |
Best Short Story |
Handbook for Poisoners |
Raymond T. Bond |
Rinehart & Co. |
|
|
1952 |
Best Short Story |
The Memoirs of Solar Pons |
August Derleth |
Mycroft and Moran |
|
|
1952 |
Best Short Story |
Twenty Great Tales of Murder |
Brett Halliday, Helen McCloy |
Random House |
|
|
1952
|
Outstanding Mystery Criticism
|
|
Lenore Glen Offord
|
San Francisco Chronicle
|
Comment: for best overall mystery reviewing
|
|
1952
|
Special Edgars
|
Queen Quorum: The 125 Most Important Books of Detective-Crime-Mystery Short Stories
|
Frederic Dannay, Manfred B. Lee
|
Biblo and Tannen
|
|
|
1951
|
Best Fact Crime
|
Twelve Against Crime
|
Edward D. Radin
|
Putnam
|
|
|
1951
|
Best First Novel
|
Nightmare in Manhattan
|
Thomas Walsh
|
Little, Brown
|
|
|
1951 |
Best First Novel |
Happy Holiday! |
Thaddeus O'Finn |
Rinehart & Co. |
|
|
1951 |
Best First Novel |
Strangers on a Train |
Patricia Highsmith |
Harper |
|
|
1951 |
Best First Novel |
The House Without a Door |
Thomas Sterling |
Simon & Schuster |
|
|
1951
|
Best Motion Picture
|
Mr. 880
|
St. Clair McKelway
|
Twentieth Century Fox
|
Comment: Winner of a special award as the author of the novel
|
|
1951
|
Best Motion Picture
|
The Asphalt Jungle
|
Ben Maddow
|
MGM
|
|
|
1951 |
Best Motion Picture |
Stage Fright |
Whitfield Cook |
Warner Bros. |
Comment: based on the novel Man Running by Selwyn Jepson |
|
1951 |
Best Motion Picture |
The Man on the Eiffel Tower |
Harry Brown |
A&T |
Comment: based on the novel A Battle of Nerves by Georges Simnon |
|
1951
|
Best Radio Drama
|
Dragnet
|
James Moser, Jack Webb
|
NBC
|
|
|
1951 |
Best Radio Drama |
The Mysterious Traveler |
Robert Arthur, David Kogan |
Mutual Broadcasting System |
|
|
1951
|
Best Short Story
|
Diagnosis: Homicide
|
Lawrence G. Blochman
|
Lippincott
|
|
|
1951
|
Outstanding Mystery Criticism
|
|
Dorothy B. Hughes
|
Albuquerque Tribune
|
Comment: and Los Angeles Daily News
|
|
1951 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
|
Anthony Boucher |
New York Times |
Comment: and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine |
|
1951 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
|
Elizabeth Bullock |
New York Times |
|
|
1951 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
|
Drexel Drake |
Chicago Tribune |
|
|
1951 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
|
Hillis Mills |
The New Yorker |
|
|
1951
|
Special Edgars
|
|
W.T. Brannon
|
|
Comment: for general excellence in fact crime writing
|
|
1951
|
Special Edgars
|
The Web
|
Franklin Heller
|
|
Comment: producer/director of MWA's TV show
|
|
1950
|
Best Fact Crime
|
Bad Company
|
Joseph Henry Jackson
|
Harcourt, Brace & World
|
|
|
1950
|
Best First Novel
|
What A Body
|
Alan Green
|
Simon & Schuster
|
|
|
1950 |
Best First Novel |
The Dark Light |
Bart Spicer |
Dodd, Mead |
|
|
1950 |
Best First Novel |
The End is Known |
Geoffrey Holiday Hall |
Simon & Schuster |
|
|
1950 |
Best First Novel |
The Innocent |
Evelyn Piper |
Simon & Schuster |
|
|
1950 |
Best First Novel |
The Shadow and the Blot |
G.G. Lobell, N.D. Lobell |
Harper |
|
|
1950 |
Best First Novel |
Walk the Dark Streets |
William Krasner |
Harper |
|
|
1950
|
Best Motion Picture
|
The Window
|
Mel Dinelli, Cornell Woolrich
|
RKO
|
Comment: Woolrich wrote the novel FIRE ESCAPE, on which the movie was based
|
|
1950 |
Best Motion Picture |
Chicago Deadline |
Warren Duff, Tiffany Thayer |
Paramount |
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