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New York, NY--January
19, 2007--Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce on the 198th
anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, its Nominees for the 2007 Edgar
Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television
and film published or produced in 2006. The Edgar Awards will be presented to
the winners at our 61st Gala Banquet, April 26, 2007 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel,
New York City.
BEST
NOVEL
The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard (HarperCollins)
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Gentleman and Players by Joanne Harris (HarperCollins William Morrow)
The Dead Hour by Denise Mina (Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown and Company)
The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard (Random House Ballantine Books)
The Liberation Movements by Olen Steinhauer (St. Martin's Minotaur)
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson (Random House)
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (Crown - Shaye Areheart Books)
King of Lies by John Hart (St. Martin's Minotaur Thomas Dunne Books)
Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith (St. Martin's Minotaur)
A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read (Warner Books Mysterious Press)
BEST
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
The Goodbye Kiss by Massimo Carlotto (Europa Editions)
The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press)
Snakeskin Shamisen by Naomi Hirahara (Bantam Dell Publishing Delta Books)
The Deep Blue Alibi by Paul Levine (Bantam Dell Publishing Bantam Books)
City of Tiny Lights by Patrick Neate (Penguin Group Riverhead Books)
BEST FACT CRIME
Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz (Farrar, Straus &
Giroux)
A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger (W.W. Norton and Co.)
Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maine by Capt. Joseph K. Loughlin & Kate
Clark Flora (University Press of New England)
Ripperology: A Study of the World's First Serial Killer by Robin Odell
(The Kent State University Press)
The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of
Murder
by Daniel Stashower (Dutton)
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
(HarperCollins William Morrow)
BEST
CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
Unless the Threat of Death is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled
Fiction and Film Noir
by John T. Irwin (Johns Hopkins
University Press)
The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear
by E.J. Wagner (John Wiley & Sons)
BEST
SHORT STORY
"The Home Front" Death Do Us Part by Charles Ardai
(Hachette Book Group Little, Brown and
Company)
"Rain" Manhattan Noir by Thomas H. Cook (Akashic Books)
"Cranked" Damn Near Dead by Bill Crider (Busted Flush Press)
"White Trash Noir" Murder at the Foul Line by Michael Malone
(Hachette Book Group Mysterious Press)
"Building" Manhattan Noir by S.J. Rozan (Akashic Books)
BEST
JUVENILE
Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake by Jennifer Allison
(Penguin Young Readers Sleuth/Dutton)
The Stolen Sapphire: A Samantha Mystery by Sarah Masters Buckey (American Girl
Publishing)
Room One: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements (Simon & Schuster Books for Young
Readers)
The Bloodwater Mysteries: Snatched by Pete Hautman & Mary Logue
(Penguin Young Readers Sleuth/Putnam)
The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery by Nancy Springer
(Penguin Young Readers
Philomel/Sleuth)
BEST YOUNG
ADULT
The Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks (Scholastic
The Chicken House)
The Christopher Killer by Alane Ferguson (Penguin YR Sleuth/Viking)
Crunch Time by Mariah Fredericks (Simon & Schuster Richard Jackson Books/Atheneum)
Buried by Robin Merrow MacCready (Penguin YR Dutton Children's Books)
The Night My Sister Went Missing by Carol Plum-Ucci (Harcourt Children's Books)
BEST
PLAY
Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure by Steven Dietz (Arizona
Theatre Company)
Curtains by Rupert Holmes (Ahmanson Theatre)
Ghosts of Ocean House by Michael Kimball (The Players' Ring)
BEST
TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
The Closer "Blue Blood", Teleplay by James Duff & Mike
Berchem (Turner Network Television)
Dexter "Crocodile", Teleplay by Clyde Phillips (Showtime)
House "Clueless", Teleplay by Thomas L. Moran (Fox/NBC Universal)
Life on Mars Episode 1, Teleplay by Matthew Graham (BBC America)
Monk "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink", Teleplay by Hy Conrad (USA Network/NBC
Universal)
BEST
TELEVISION FEATURE/MINI-SERIES TELEPLAY
Conviction, Teleplay by Bill Gallagher (BBC America)
Cracker: A New Terror, Teleplay by Jimmy McGovern (BBC America)
Messiah: The Harrowing, Teleplay by Terry Cafolla (BBC America)
Secret Smile, Teleplay by Kate Brooke, based on the book by Nicci French (BBC
America)
The Wire, Season 4, Teleplays by Ed Burns, Kia Corthron, Dennis Lehane, David
Mills, Eric Overmyer, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, David Simon & William F.
Zorzi (Home Box Office)
BEST
MOTION PICTURE SCREENPLAY
Casino Royale, Screenplay by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade & Paul
Haggis, based on novel by Ian Fleming (MGM)
Children of Men, Screenplay by Alfonso Cuarσn, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata,
Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby, based on a novel by P.D. James (Universal Pictures
The Departed, Screenplay by William Monahan (Warner Bros. Pictures)
The Good Shepherd, Teleplay by Eric Roth, based on a novel by Joseph Kanon
(Universal Pictures)
Notes on a Scandal, Screenplay by Patrick Marber (Scott Rudin Productions)
ROBERT
L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD
William Dylan Powell
"Evening Gold" EQMM November 2006 (Dell Magazines)
GRAND MASTER
Stephen King
RAVEN
AWARDS
Books & Books (Mitchell Kaplan, owner)
Mystery Loves Company Bookstore (Kathy & Tom Harig, owners)
THE SIMON &
SCHUSTER - MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
Bloodline by Fiona Mountain (St.
Martin's Minotaur)
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