1986 Edgar Awards
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Edgar Award for Best Novel
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| L. R. Wright |
The Suspect
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| Simon Brett |
A Shock to the System
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| Ruth Rendell |
An Unkindness of Ravens
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| Paul Auster |
City of Glass
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| Ruth Rendell |
The Tree of Hands
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Edgar Award for Best Juvenile
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Patricia Windsor |
Sandman's Eyes
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| Lois Duncan |
Locked in Time
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| Gillian Cross |
On the Edge
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| Sandra Scoppettone |
Playing Murder
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| Lionel Davidson |
Screaming High
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Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jonathan Kellerman |
When the Bough Breaks
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| Dick Lochte |
Sleeping Dog
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| Daniel Stashower |
The Adventures of the Ectoplasmic Man
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| Tony Fennelly |
Glory Hole Murders
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Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Warren Murphy |
Trace 5
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| Conall Ryan |
Black Gravity
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| Philip Ross |
Blue Heron
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| David Hagberg |
Broken Idols
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| Earl Emerson |
Poverty Bay
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Edgar Award for Best Short Story
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Lutz |
Ride the Lightening
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine","Volume: January '85 |
| Janwillem van de Wetering |
There Goes Ravelaar
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine","Volume: January '85 |
| Arthur Lyons |
Trouble in Paradise
New Black Mask","Volume: January '85 |
| Robert Barnard |
What's in a Name?
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine","Volume: June '85 |
| Robert Twohy |
Yellow One-Eyed Cat
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine","Volume: May '85 |
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Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Steven M.L. Aronson |
Savage Grace: The True Story of Fatal Relations in a Rich and Famous American Family
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| Natalie Robins |
Savage Grace: The True Story of Fatal Relations in a Rich and Famous American Family
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| Jonathan Coleman |
At Mother's Request: A True Story of Money, Murder and Betrayal
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| Shana Alexander |
Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album
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| Gordon Burn |
Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son
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| Ludovic Kennedy |
The Airman and the Carpenter: The Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Framing of Richard Hauptmann
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| Brian Kates |
The Murder of a Shopping Bag Lady
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Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Peter Lewis |
John Le Carre
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| Janet Morgan |
Agatha Christie
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| Robert A. Baker |
Private Eyes
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| Michael T. Nietzel |
Private Eyes
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| David Geherin |
American Private Eye
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| Stephan P. Clarke |
The Lord Peter Wimsey Companion
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Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
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Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Mick Garris |
The Amazing Falsworth
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| Debra Frank |
The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice
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| Carl Sautter |
The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice
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| Buck Henry |
Wake Me When I'm Dead (aka. Murder Me Twice)
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Edgar Awards for Best Television Feature/Mini-Series Teleplay
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Richard Levinson |
Guilty Conscience
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| William Link |
Guilty Conscience
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| William Bleich |
Deadly Messages
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| John Gay |
Doubletake
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| Sue Grafton |
Love On The Run
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| Steve Humphrey |
Love On The Run
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| Dean Hargrove |
Perry Mason Returns
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Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Kelley |
Witness
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| Earl W. Wallace |
Witness
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| Joel Coen |
Blood Simple
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| Ethan Coen |
Blood Simple
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| Andrew Bergman |
Fletch
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| Joe Eszterhas |
Jagged Edge
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| Peter Prince |
The Hit
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Edgar Award for Best Play
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