Awards & Winners

1955 Edgar Award

Check winners and nominations of 1955 Edgar Award. Check awards winners of 1955 Edgar Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

1955 Edgar Awards

Edgar Award for Best Novel

Raymond Chandler

Honored for : The Long Goodbye
Edgar Grand Master Award
Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author

Jean Potts

Honored for : Go, Lovely Rose
Edgar Award for Best Short Story

Stanley Ellin

Honored for : The House Party
Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime

Charles Boswell, Lewis Thompson

Honored for : The Girl with the Scarlet Brand

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Charles Boswell The Girl with the Scarlet Brand
Lewis Thompson The Girl with the Scarlet Brand
Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay

John Michael Hayes

Honored for : Rear Window
Edgar Award for Best Play

Agatha Christie

Honored for : Witness for the Prosecution
Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay

Gore Vidal

Honored for : Smoke
(Series: Suspense)

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Gore Vidal Smoke
Series: Suspense
E. Jack Neuman The Long Goodbye
Series: Climax
Edgar Award for Best Radio Drama

Stanley Niss

Honored for : The Tree
Edgar's Book Jacket Award

Little, Brown and Company

Honored for : Eleven Blue Men

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Little, Brown and Company Eleven Blue Men
Dell Publishing
softcover
Edgar Award for Outstanding Mystery Criticism

Charles H. Huff

(Chicago Tribune)
Edgar's Book Jacket Award

Dell Publishing

(softcover)

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Little, Brown and Company Eleven Blue Men
Dell Publishing
softcover