Awards & Winners

1958 Edgar Award

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1958 Edgar Awards

Edgar Award for Best Novel

Ed Lacy

Honored for : Room to Swing

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Nominee Nominated Work
Ed Lacy Room to Swing
Arthur Upfield Bushman Who Came Back
Bill S. Ballinger The Longest Second
Marjorie Carleton The Night of the Good Children
Edgar Grand Master Award
Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author

William Rawle Weeks

Honored for : Knock and Wait a While

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Nominee Nominated Work
William Rawle Weeks Knock and Wait a While
Warren Carrier Bay of the Damned
James Cross Root of Evil
Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime

James David Horan, Harold R. Danforth

Honored for : The D.A.'s Man

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Nominee Nominated Work
Harold R. Danforth The D.A.'s Man
James David Horan The D.A.'s Man
Henry Goddard Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner
Patrick Pringle Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner
Joseph Henry Jackson The Girl in the Belfry
Lenore Glen Offord The Girl in the Belfry
Edgar Award for Best Short Story

Gerald Kersh

Honored for : The Secret of the Bottle

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Nominee Nominated Work
Gerald Kersh The Secret of the Bottle
Charlotte Armstrong And Already Lost
Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay

Reginald Rose

Honored for : 12 Angry Men

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Nominee Nominated Work
Reginald Rose 12 Angry Men
Harry Kurnitz Witness for the Prosecution
Billy Wilder Witness for the Prosecution
Edgar's Book Jacket Award

Harper & Bros.

(for general excellence)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Harper & Bros.
for general excellence
Dell Publishing
for their Great Mystery Series book jackets
Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay

Harold Swanton

Honored for : Mechanical Manhunt
(NBC-TV)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Harold Swanton Mechanical Manhunt
NBC-TV
The Fall River Legend: the Trial of Lizzie Borden
ABC
Edgar's Book Jacket Award

Dell Publishing

(for their Great Mystery Series book jackets)

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Harper & Bros.
for general excellence
Dell Publishing
for their Great Mystery Series book jackets
Edgar Award for Best Radio Drama

Jay McMullen

Honored for : The Galindez-Murphy Case: A Chronicle of Terror