1981 Edgar Awards
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Edgar Award for Best Novel
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Dick Francis |
Whip Hand
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| Barbara Margaret Trimble |
Death Drop
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| Robert Barnard |
Death of a Literary Widow
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| A. J. Quinnell |
Man on Fire
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| Reginald Hill |
The Spy's Wife
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Edgar Award for Best Juvenile
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Joan Lowery Nixon |
The Se?ance
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| Willo Davis Roberts |
More Minden Curses
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| Mary Blount Christian |
The Doggone Mystery
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| Charlotte MacLeod |
We Dare not go A-hunting
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| Rosemary Wells |
When No One Was Looking
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Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Kay Nolte Smith |
The Watcher
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| David Carkeet |
Double Negative
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| Susanne Jaffe |
The Other Ann Fletcher
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| Oliver T. Banks |
Rembrandt Panel
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| Betsy Aswald |
Winds of the Old Days
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Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Thomas H. Cook |
Blood Innocents
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| John Dunning |
Looking for Ginger North
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| Murray Sinclair |
Tough luck L.A.
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| Bill Granger |
Public Murders
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Edgar Award for Best Short Story
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Clark Howard |
Horn Man
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| William Bankier |
The Choirboy
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| Edward D. Hoch |
The Most Dangerous Man Alive
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| John Lutz |
Until You Are Dead
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Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Fred Harwell |
A True Deliverance
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| John Dinges |
Assassination of Embassy Row
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| Saul Landau |
Assassination of Embassy Row
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| Thomas Hauser |
Trial of Patrolman Thomas Shea
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Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John M. Reilly |
Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers
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| Robert Barnard |
A talent to deceive
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| LeRoy Panek |
Watteau's Shepherds
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Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Donald Bellisario |
China Doll
Series: Magnum P.I. |
| Glen A. Larson |
China Doll
Series: Magnum P.I. |
| Steve Greenberg |
A Matter of Principle
Series: Quincy |
| Aubrey Solomon |
A Matter of Principle
Series: Quincy |
| Stephen J. Cannell |
Tenspeed and Brownshoe (1)
Series: Tenspeed and Brown Shoe |
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Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Brian Garfield |
Hopscotch
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| Bryan Forbes |
Hopscotch
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| Mann Rubin |
The First Deadly Sin
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| Andrew J. Fenady |
The Man with Bogart's Face
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| Joseph Wambaugh |
The Black Marble
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Edgar Award for Best Play
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Edgar Awards for Best Television Feature/Mini-Series Teleplay
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Albert Ruben |
City in Fear
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| David Wiltse |
Revenge of the Stepford Wives
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| Michael Berk |
The Last Song
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| Douglas Schwartz |
The Last Song
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