Awards & Winners

2012 Edgar Award

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2012 Edgar Awards

Edgar Award for Best Novel

Mo Hayder

Honored for : Gone

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Nominee Nominated Work
Mo Hayder Gone
Anne Holt 1222
Philip Kerr Field Gray
Keigo Higashino The Devotion of Suspect X
Ace Atkins The Ranger
Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author

Lori Roy

Honored for : Bent Road

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Nominee Nominated Work
Lori Roy Bent Road
Leonard Rosen All Cry Chaos
David Duffy Last to Fold
Steve Ulfelder Purgatory Chasm
Edward Conlon Red on Red
Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime

Candice Millard

Honored for : Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

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Nominee Nominated Work
Candice Millard Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Paul Collins The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars
T. J. English The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge
Steve Miller Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender
Mark Seal The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter
Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original

Robert Jackson Bennett

Honored for : The Company Man

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Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Jackson Bennett The Company Man
Lucretia Walsh Grindle The Faces of Angels
Russell Hill The Dog Sox
Michael Stanley Death of the Mantis
Frank Tallis Vienna Twilight
Edgar Award for Best Juvenile

Matthew J. Kirby

Honored for : Icefall

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Nominee Nominated Work
Matthew J. Kirby Icefall
Tom Angleberger Horton Halfpott
Mac Barnett It Happened on a Train
Shawn Thomas Odyssey The Wizard of Dark Street
Sheela Chari Vanished
Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay

Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Gideon Raff

Honored for : Pilot

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Nominee Nominated Work
Alex Gansa Pilot
Howard Gordon Pilot
Gideon Raff Pilot
Siobhan Byrne O'Connor Innocence
Speed Weed Mask
Ben Court Episode 1
Caroline Ip Episode 1
Benjamin Cavell The Life Inside
Edgar Award for Best Play

Ken Ludwig

Honored for : The Game's Afoot

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Nominee Nominated Work
Ken Ludwig The Game's Afoot
Jeffrey Hatcher Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club
The Ellery Queen Award
Edgar Award for Best Young Adult

Dandi Daley Mackall

Honored for : The Silence of Murder

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Nominee Nominated Work
Dandi Daley Mackall The Silence of Murder
Todd Strasser Kill You Last
Harlan Coben Shelter
Kathryn Miller Haines The Girl is Murder
Maureen Johnson The Name of the Star
Edgar Grand Master Award
Mary Higgins Clark Award

Sara J. Henry

Honored for : Learning to Swim

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Nominee Nominated Work
S.J. Bolton Now You See Me
Sara J. Henry Learning to Swim
Hallie Ephron Come and Find Me
Janice Hamrick Death on Tour
Tracy Kiely Murder Most Persuasive
Edgar Award for Best Short Story

Peter Turnbull

Honored for : The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train
(Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)

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Nominee Nominated Work
David Dean Tomorrow\u2019s Dead
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Bradley Denton The Adakian Eagle
Down These Strange Streets
Diana Gabaldon Lord John and the Plague of Zombies
Down These Strange Streets
Neil Gaiman The Case of Death and Honey
A Study in Sherlock
Peter Turnbull The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
John C. Boland Marley\u2019s Revolution
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical

Michael Dirda

Honored for : On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling

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Nominee Nominated Work
Michael Dirda On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling
Dan Burstein The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of our Time
Arne J. De Keijzer The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of our Time
John-Henri Holmberg The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of our Time
Walter Raubicheck Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds and Marnie
Walter Srebnick Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds and Marnie
Philippa Gates Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film
John Curran Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making
Raven Award
Raven Award
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award

David Ingram

Honored for : A Good Man of Business
(Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)