Awards & Winners

1951 Edgar Award

Check winners and nominations of 1951 Edgar Award. Check awards winners of 1951 Edgar Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

1951 Edgar Awards

Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author

Thomas Walsh

Honored for : Nightmare in Manhattan

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Nominee Nominated Work
Thomas Walsh Nightmare in Manhattan
Thaddeus O'Finn Happy Holiday!
Patricia Highsmith Strangers on a Train
Thomas Sterling The House Without a Door
Edgar Award for Best Short Story

Lawrence Blochman

Honored for : Diagnosis: Homicide
Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime

Edward D. Radin

Honored for : Twelve Against Crime
Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay

St. Clair McKelway

Honored for : Mister 880

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Nominee Nominated Work
St. Clair McKelway Mister 880
Ben Maddow The Asphalt Jungle
Whitfield Cook Stage Fright
Harry Brown The Man on the Eiffel Tower
Edgar Award for Best Radio Drama

James E. Moser, Jack Webb

Honored for : Dragnet

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Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Arthur, Jr. The Mysterious Traveler
David Kogan The Mysterious Traveler
Jack Webb Dragnet
James E. Moser Dragnet
Edgar Award for Outstanding Mystery Criticism

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Nominee Nominated Work
Dorothy B. Hughes
Anthony Boucher
Elizabeth Bullock
Charles H. Huff
Hillis Mills
Special Edgars Award

W.T. Brannon

(for general excellence in fact crime writing)
Special Edgars Award

Franklin Heller

Honored for : The Web
(producer/director of MWA's TV show)
Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay

Ben Maddow

Honored for : The Asphalt Jungle

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
St. Clair McKelway Mister 880
Ben Maddow The Asphalt Jungle
Whitfield Cook Stage Fright
Harry Brown The Man on the Eiffel Tower