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The Mystery Writers of America give these awards to honor the best in mystery fiction and nonfiction produced in the previous year. The awards began in 1954 and are named in honor of Edgar Allan Poe.

Best Novel
	2007	The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
	2006	Citizen Vince by Jess Walter
	2005	California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker
	2004	Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin
	2003	Winter and Night by S.J. Rozan
	2002	Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker
	2001	The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
	2000	Bones by Jan Burke
	1999	Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark
	1998	Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke
	1997	The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook
	1996	Come To Grief by Dick Francis
	1995	The Red Scream by Mary Willis Walker
	1994	The Sculptress by Minette Walkers
	1993	Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron
	1992	A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block
	1991	New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith
	1990	Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke
	1989	A Cold Red Sunrise by Stuart M. Kaminsky
	1988	Old Bones by Aaron Elkins
	1987	A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
	1986	The Suspect by L.R. Wright
	1985	Briarpatch by Ross Thomas
	1984	LaBrava by Elmore Leonard
	1983	Billingsgate Shoal by Rick Boyer (This title is no longer available.)
	1982	Peregrine by William Bayer
	1981	Whip Hand by Dick Francis
	1980	The Rheingold Route by Arthur Maling
	1979	Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
	1978	Catch Me, Kill Me by William Hallahan
	1977	Promised Land by Robert B. Parker
	1976	Hopscotch by Brian Garfield
	1975	Peter's Pence by Jon Cleary
	1974	Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman
	1973	The Lingala Code by Warren Kiefer
	1972	The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
	1971	The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall & Peter Wahloo
	1970	Forfeit by Dick Francis
	1969	A Case of Need by Michael Chrichton writing as Jeffrey Hudson
	1968	God Save the Mark by Donald E. Westlake
	1967	King of the Rainy Country by Nicolas Freeling
	1966	The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall
	1965	The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John leCarré
	1964	The Light of Day by Eric Ambler
	1963	Death and the Joyful Woman by Ellis Peters
	1962	Gideon's Fire by John Creasey writing as J.J. Marric
	1961	Progress of a Crime by Julian Symons
	1960	The Hours Before Dawn  by Celia Fremlin
	1959	The Eighth Circle  by Stanley Ellin
	1958	Room to Swing by Ed Lacy (This title is no longer available.)
	1957	A Dram of Poison  by Charlotte Armstrong
	1956	Beast in View  by Margaret Millar
	1955	The Long Goodbye  by Raymond Chandler
	1954	Beat Not the Bones  by Charlotte Jay (Book on tape)