1980 Edgar Awards
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Edgar Award for Best Novel
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Arthur Maling |
The Rheingold Route
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| C. P. Snow |
A Coat of Varnish
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| Robert Barnard |
Death of a Mystery Writer
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| Roger Longrigg |
Fire in the Barley
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| Ruth Rendell |
Make Death Love Me
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Edgar Award for Best Juvenile
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Joan Lowery Nixon |
The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore
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| Diane Redfield Massie |
Chameleon was a Spy
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| Remus F. Caroselli |
The Mystery Cottage in Left Field
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| Frances Wosmek |
Mystery of the Eagle's Claw
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| Lynn Hall |
The Whispered Horse
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Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Richard North Patterson |
The Lasko Tangent
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| John Logue |
Follow the Leader
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| R. R Irvine |
Night Trains
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Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William L. DeAndrea |
The Hog Murders
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| Michael Kurland |
The Infernal Device
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| David Hagberg |
The Kremlin Conspiracy
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| Glenn Kezer |
The Queen is Dead
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| David Heller |
Vortex
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Edgar Award for Best Short Story
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Geoffrey Norman |
Armed and Dangerous
Esquire","Volume: March '79 |
| Brian Garfield |
Scrimshaw
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine","Volume: December '79 |
| Julian Symons |
The Boiler
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine","Volume: November '79 |
| Paul Theroux |
The Imperial Ice House
Atlantic Monthly","Volume: April '79 |
| Frederick Forsyth |
Used In Evidence
Playboy","Volume: December '79 |
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Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Lindsey |
Falcon and the Snowman:A True Story of Friendship and Espionage
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| Shana Alexander |
Anyone's Daughter
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| Gary Cartwright |
Blood Will Tell
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| Stephen H. Gettinger |
Sentenced to Die
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| Clark Howard |
Zebra
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Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ralph E. Hone |
Dorothy L. Sayers, A Literary Biography
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| Margaret Hannay |
As Her Whimsey Took Her
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| H. R. F. Keating |
Sherlock Holmes: The Man and His World
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| Vera Caspary |
The Secrets of Grown-Ups
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Edgar Awards for Best Television Feature/Mini-Series Teleplay
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Richard Levinson |
Murder by Natural Causes
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| William Link |
Murder by Natural Causes
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| Frank D. Gilroy |
Nero Wolfe
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| Paul Monash |
Salem's Lot
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Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robin Chapman |
Skin
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| Roald Dahl |
Skin
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| Michele Gallery |
Hollywood
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| Mark Rodgers |
Only the Pretty Girls Die (1)
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| Stephen J. Cannell |
Stone
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Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Michael Crichton |
The Great Train Robbery
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| John Hopkins |
Murder by Decree
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| Nicholas Meyer |
Time After Time
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Edgar Award for Best Play
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