Awards & Winners

1975 Edgar Award

Check winners and nominations of 1975 Edgar Award. Check awards winners of 1975 Edgar Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

1975 Edgar Awards

Edgar Award for Best Novel

Jon Cleary

Honored for : Peter's Pence

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Nominee Nominated Work
Jon Cleary Peter's Pence
Francis Clifford Good-bye and Amen
Paul Winterton The Lester Affair
Malcolm Bosse The Man Who Loved Zoos
Paul Erdman Silver Bears
Edgar Grand Master Award
Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author

Gregory Mcdonald

Honored for : Fletch

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Nominee Nominated Work
Gregory Mcdonald Fletch
Brown Meggs Saturday Games
Nicholas Meyer Target Practice
Vern E. Smith The Jones Men
Dominic Koski The Kreutzman Formula
Virgil Scott The Kreutzman Formula
Edgar Award for Best Juvenile

Jay Bennett

Honored for : The Dangling Witness

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Nominee Nominated Work
Jay Bennett The Dangling Witness
Colin Thiele The Fire in the Stone
Scott Corbett Here Lies the Body
David Severn The Girl in the Grove
Joan Lowery Nixon The Mysterious Red Tape Gang
Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original

Roy Winsor

Honored for : The Corpse That Walked

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Nominee Nominated Work
Roy Winsor The Corpse That Walked
Don Tracy Flats Fixed-Among Other Things
R. R Irvine Jump Cut
Curtis Stevens The Gravy Train Hit
Richard Forrest Who Killed Mr. Garland's Mistress?
Edgar Award for Best Short Story

Ruth Rendell

Honored for : The Fallen Curtain

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Nominee Nominated Work
Ruth Rendell The Fallen Curtain
Elsin Ann Gardner A Night Out with the Boys
Joyce Harrington Cabin in the Hollow
Donald S. Olson Screams and Echoes
Thomasina Weber The Game
David Ely The Light in the Cottage
Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime

Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry

Honored for : Helter Skelter

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Nominee Nominated Work
Vincent Bugliosi Helter Skelter
Curt Gentry Helter Skelter
Ernest Tidyman Dummy
Gerald Meyer The Memphis Murders
Edgar Awards for Best Television Feature/Mini-Series Teleplay

Joel Oliansky

Honored for : The Law

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Nominee Nominated Work
Joel Oliansky The Law
Robert E. Thompson A Case of Rape
Nicholas Meyer Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders
Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay

Robert Towne

Honored for : Chinatown

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Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Towne Chinatown
Paul Dehn Murder on the Orient Express
Francis Ford Coppola The Conversation
David Giler The Parallax View
Lorenzo Semple Jr. The Parallax View
Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay

Robert L. Collins

Honored for : Requiem for C.Z. Smith

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Nominee Nominated Work
Robert L. Collins Requiem for C.Z. Smith
Richard M. Bluel Anatomy of Two Rapes
Pat Fielder Anatomy of Two Rapes
Howard Rodman Gertrude
Edgar's Book Jacket Award

Doubleday

Honored for : Tales of the Black Widowers
(hardcover)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Doubleday Tales of the Black Widowers
hardcover
Pocket Books The Hubschmann Effect
softcover
Fawcett Crest Anima
softcover
Harper & Row Feral
hardcover
Penguin Group Nella Waits
hardcover
Dell Publishing The Mousetrap
softcover
Harper & Row They Can't Hang Me
hardcover
Edgar's Book Jacket Award

Pocket Books

Honored for : The Hubschmann Effect
(softcover)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Doubleday Tales of the Black Widowers
hardcover
Pocket Books The Hubschmann Effect
softcover
Fawcett Crest Anima
softcover
Harper & Row Feral
hardcover
Penguin Group Nella Waits
hardcover
Dell Publishing The Mousetrap
softcover
Harper & Row They Can't Hang Me
hardcover
Raven Award

American Broadcasting Company

Honored for : The Wide World of Mystery
Raven Award

CBS Radio

Honored for : CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Special Edgars Award

Francis M. Nevins, Jr.

Honored for : Royal bloodline; Ellery Queen, author and detective
Special Edgars Award

Howard Haycraft

(for his distinguished contribution to mystery criticism and scholarship)