1988 Edgar Awards
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Edgar Award for Best Novel
Nominations »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Aaron Elkins |
Old Bones
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Linda Barnes |
A Trouble of Fools
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Barbara Margaret Trimble |
Nursery Crimes
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Peter Lovesey |
Rough Cider
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Charlotte MacLeod |
The Corpse in Oozak's Pond
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Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author
Nominations »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Deidre S. Laiken |
Death Among Strangers
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Parnell Hall |
Detective
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John Lantigua |
Heat Lightning
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Dallas Murphy |
Lover Man
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Domenic Stansberry |
The Spoiler
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Edgar Award for Best Juvenile
Nominations »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Susan Richards Shreve |
Lucy Forever and Miss Rosetree, Shrinks
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Peter Carter |
Bury the Dead
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Eileen Dunlop |
The House on the Hill
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Lois Duncan |
The Twisted Window
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Rosemary Wells |
Through the Hidden Door
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Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original
Nominations »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Sharyn McCrumb |
Bimbos of the Death Sun
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Gabrielle Kraft |
Bullshot
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Walter Dillon |
Deadly Intrusion
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James N. Frey |
The Long Way to Die
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Robert Crais |
The Monkey's Raincoat
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Edgar Award for Best Short Story
Nominations »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Harlan Ellison |
Soft Monkey Anthology: Mystery Scene Reader |
Robert Barnard |
Breakfast Television Volume: January '87 |
Paula Gosling |
Mr. Felix Volume: July '87 |
George Baxt |
Stroke of Genius Volume: June '87 |
Joyce Harrington |
The Au Pair Girl Anthology: Matter of Crime #1 |
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Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime
Nominations »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Richard Hammer |
The CBS Murders
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Robert Mayer |
The Dreams of Ada
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Loretta Schwartz-Nobel |
Engaged to Murder
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Stephen Singular |
Talked To Death
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Ira Berkow |
The Man Who Robbed the Pierre
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Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical
Nominations »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
LeRoy Panek |
An Introduction to the Detective Story
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B.A. Pike |
Campion's Career: A Study of the Novels of Margery Allingham
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Peter Wolfe |
Corridors of Deceit
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H. R. F. Keating |
Crime and Mystery
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Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
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Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay
Nominations »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Jeremy Paul |
The Return of Sherlock Holmes I (3) The Musgrave Ritual
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Ron Hansen |
Blue Movie
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John Leekley |
Nicky the Rose
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Alfonse Ruggiero |
Nicky the Rose
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Eric Blakeney |
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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David Abramowitz |
Right to Remain Silent
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Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay
Nominations »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Jim Kouf |
Stakeout
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Larry Cohen |
Best Seller
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Michael Miner |
RoboCop
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Edward Neumeier |
RoboCop
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Daniel Petrie |
The Big Easy
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Donald E. Westlake |
The Stepfather
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Edgar Awards for Best Television Feature/Mini-Series Teleplay
Nominations »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
William Hanley |
Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder
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Gordon Cotler |
Deadly Deception
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Michele Gallery |
Old Dogs
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Arthur Kopit |
The Hands of the Stranger
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Bob Shayne |
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
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