1978 Edgar Awards
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Edgar Award for Best Novel
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William H. Hallahan |
Catch Me: Kill Me
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| William McIlvanney |
Laidlaw
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| Martin Cruz Smith |
Nightwing
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Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Ross |
A French Finish
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| Charles A. Goodrum |
Dewey Decimated
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| Bob Randall |
The Fan
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Edgar Award for Best Juvenile
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Eloise McGraw |
A Really Weird Summer
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| Harry Allard |
Miss Nelson is Missing!
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| James Marshall |
Miss Nelson is Missing!
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| Robert Newman |
Night Spell
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| Jane Louise Curry |
Poor Tom's Ghost
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Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Michael Jahn |
Quark Maneuver
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| Donald Hamilton |
The Terrorizers
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| Mark Olden |
They've Killed Anna
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| Lawrence Block |
Time to Murder and Create
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Edgar Award for Best Short Story
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Thomas Walsh |
Chance After Chance
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| Brian Garfield |
Jode's Last Hunt
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| Paul Theroux |
The Johore Murders
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| Jean Backus |
The Last Rendezvous
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| Geoffrey Bush |
The Problem of Li T'ang
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Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Barbara Amiel |
By Persons Unknown
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| George Jonas |
By Persons Unknown
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| Lacey Fosburgh |
Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder
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| Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht |
Justice Crucified
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| Clark Howard |
Six Against the Rock
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| Paul Avery |
The Voices of Guns: The Definitive and Dramatic Story of the Twenty-two-month Career of the Symbionese Liberation Army, One of the Most Bizarre Chapters in the History of the American Left
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| Vin McLellan |
The Voices of Guns: The Definitive and Dramatic Story of the Twenty-two-month Career of the Symbionese Liberation Army, One of the Most Bizarre Chapters in the History of the American Left
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Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John J. McAleer |
Rex Stout
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| Agatha Christie |
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
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| Jack Tracy |
The Encyclopaedia Sherlockiana; or, A Universal Dictionary of the State of Knowledge of Sherlock Holmes and His Biographer, John H. Watson, M.D.
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Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Anthony Lawrence |
... The Thigh Bone's Connected to the Knee Bone ... (90 min)
Quincy |
| Lou Shaw |
... The Thigh Bone's Connected to the Knee Bone ... (90 min)
Quincy |
| Jerome Coopersmith |
In the Event of My Death
The Andros Targets |
| Juanita Bartlett |
A Deadly Maze
The Rockford Files |
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Edgar Awards for Best Television Feature/Mini-Series Teleplay
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Gordon Cotler |
Men Who Love Women
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| Don Mankiewicz |
Men Who Love Women
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| Sam Rolfe |
Men Who Love Women
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| E. Arthur Kean |
A Killing Affair
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| Edward Anhalt |
Contract on Cherry Street
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| Jerrold L. Ludwig |
In the Glitter Palace
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Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Benton |
The Late Show
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| Ernest Lehman |
Black Sunday
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| Ivan Moffat |
Black Sunday
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| Kenneth Ross |
Black Sunday
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| Peter Hyams |
Telefon
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| Stirling Silliphant |
Telefon
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