Nominations 2014 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Daniel Stashower |
The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
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Cate Lineberry |
The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and the Medics Behind Nazi Lines
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Charles Graeber |
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
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Michael D'Antonio |
Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal
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Paul Collins |
Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery
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Nominations 2013 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Paul French |
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
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Gilbert King |
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
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Ben Macintyre |
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
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D. P. Lyle, MD |
More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers' Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered
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Richard Lloyd Parry |
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
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Nominations 2012 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Candice Millard |
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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Paul Collins |
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars
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T. J. English |
The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge
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Steve Miller |
Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender
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Mark Seal |
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter
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Nominations 2011 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Ken Armstrong |
Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity
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Nick Perry |
Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity
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Scott Higham |
Finding Chandra
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Sari Horwitz |
Finding Chandra
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Hampton Sides |
Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for his Assassin
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Alexander S. Heard |
The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in Jim Crow South
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Douglas Starr |
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
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Nominations 2010 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Dave Cullen |
Columbine Hachette Book Group","Twelve |
Jeff Guinn |
Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde Simon & Schuster |
Laney Salisbury |
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art The Penguin Press |
Aly Sujo |
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art The Penguin Press |
Dick Lehr |
The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Bostons Racial Divide HarperCollins |
R. A. Scotti |
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa Random House","Alfred A. Knopf |
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Nominations 2009 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Howard Blum |
American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century
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Kate Summerscale |
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
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T. J. English |
Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution
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Jonathan Lopez |
The Man Who Made Vermeers
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Simon Baatz |
For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago
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Nominations 2008 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Vincent Bugliosi |
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
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Bruce Watson |
Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind
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Kevin Flynn |
Relentless Pursuit
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Kerry Max Cook |
Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit
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Stanley Alpert |
The Birthday Party
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Nominations 2007 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Sebastian Junger |
A Death in Belmont
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Terri Jentz |
Strange Piece of Paradise
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Daniel Stashower |
The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder
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James L. Swanson |
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
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Robin Odell |
Ripperology
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Capt. Joseph K. Loughlin |
Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maine
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Kate Clark Flora |
Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maine
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Nominations 2006 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Edward Dolnick |
The Rescue Artist HarperCollins |
Jed Horne |
Desire Street Farrar, Straus, Giroux |
John Emsley |
The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison Oxford University Press |
Michael Finkel |
True Story HarperCollins |
Diane Fanning |
Written in Blood St. Martin's True Crime |
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Nominations 2005 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Leonard Levitt |
Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder A Reporter and a Detective's Twenty-Year Search for Justice |
Suzanne O'Malley |
Are You There Alone? The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates |
Julian Rubinstein |
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts |
D. P. Lyle, MD |
Forensics for Dummies
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Ann Rule |
Green River, Running Red The Real Story of the Green River Killer -- America's Deadliest Serial Murderer |
Marissa N. Batt |
Ready for the People My Most Chilling Cases as Prosecutor |
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Nominations 2004 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Erik Larson |
The Devil in the White City
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Steve Oney |
And The Dead Shall Rise
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Steve Hodel |
Black Dahlia Avenger - The True Story
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Dick Lehr |
Judgment Ridge
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Mitchell Zuckoff |
Judgment Ridge
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David Pietrusza |
Rothstein
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Nominations 2003 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Joseph Wambaugh |
Fire Lover
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Albert Borowitz |
Blood and Ink
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James Ruddick |
Death at the Priory
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Douglas Century |
Takedown
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Rick Cowan |
Takedown
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John Taylor |
The Count and the Confession: A True Murder Mystery
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Nominations 2002 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Kent Walker |
Son of a Grifter
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Jonathan H. Pincus |
Base Instincts
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Roy Hazelwood |
Dark Dreams
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Stephen G. Michaud |
Dark Dreams
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Joe Jackson |
Leavenworth Train
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James Neff |
The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Sam Sheppard Murder Case
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Nominations 2001 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Dick Lehr |
Black Mass
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Gerard K. O'Neill |
Black Mass
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Donald Wayne Foster |
Author Unknown
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John Evangelist Walsh |
Moonlight
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Jeanne Boylan |
Portraits of Guilt: The Woman Who Profiles the Faces of America's Deadliest Criminals
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Joshua Armstrong |
The Seekers: Finding Felons and Guiding Men
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Anthony Bruno |
The Seekers: Finding Felons and Guiding Men
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Nominations 2000 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
James B. Stewart |
Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away with Murder
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Ann Rule |
And Never Let Her Go
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James St. James |
Disco Bloodbath
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Edward Humes |
Mean Justice
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Jim Fisher |
The Ghosts of Hopewell
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Nominations 1999 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Carlton Stowers |
To The Last Breath
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Jerry Bledsoe |
Death Sentence
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Timothy Dumas |
Greentown
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Richard A. Serrano |
One of Ours
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Rich Cohen |
Tough Jews
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Nominations 1998 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Richard Firstman |
The Death of Innocents
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Jamie Talan |
The Death of Innocents
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Ann Rule |
Bitter Harvest
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John Tucker |
May God have Mercy
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Bernard Lefkowitz |
Our Guys
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Ben Macintyre |
The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief
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Nominations 1997 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Darcy O'Brien |
Power to Hurt: Inside a Judge's Chambers
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Jim Fisher |
Fall Guys
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Edward Humes |
No Matter How Loud I Shout
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Vincent Bugliosi |
Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson Got Away with Murder
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Clinton Howard Swindle |
Trespasses
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Nominations 1996 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Pete Earley |
Circumstantial Evidence
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T. J. English |
Born to Kill
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Jim Schutze |
By Two and Two
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Mark Olshaker |
Mindhunter
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John E. Douglas |
Mindhunter
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James Neff |
Unfinished Murder
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Nominations 1995 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Joe Domanick |
To Protect and to Serve
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Jerry Bledsoe |
Before He Wakes
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Eileen McNamara |
Breakdown
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Dennis McDougal |
In the Best of Families
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Edward Humes |
Mississippi Mud
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Nominations 1994 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Bella Stumbo |
Until the Twelfth of Never
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Steven Naifeh |
Final Justice
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Gregory White Smith |
Final Justice
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David Protess |
Gone in the Night
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Rob Warden |
Gone in the Night
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Noel Behn |
Lindbergh: The Crime
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Jack Olsen |
The Misbegotten Son
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Nominations 1993 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Harry Farrell |
Swift Justice
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Thomas H. Cook |
Blood Echoes
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Ann Rule |
Everything She Ever Wanted
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Jim Schutze |
My Husband's Trying to Kill Me!
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Jana Bommersbach |
The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd
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Nominations 1992 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
David Simon |
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
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Andris Kurins |
Boss of Bosses: The Fall of the Godfather: The FBI and Paul Castellano
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Joseph F. O'Brien |
Boss of Bosses: The Fall of the Godfather: The FBI and Paul Castellano
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James P. Cole |
Death of Elvis: What Really Happened
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Charles C. Thompson II |
Death of Elvis: What Really Happened
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James B. Stewart |
Den of Thieves
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Christopher Joyce |
Witness from the Grave
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Eric Stover |
Witness from the Grave
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Nominations 1991 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Peter Maas |
In a Child's Name
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Barry Siegel |
A Death in White Bear Lake
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Ken Englade |
Beyond Reason
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Ernest Volkman |
Goombata
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John Cummings |
Goombata
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Nominations 1990 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Jack Olsen |
Doc
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Darcy O'Brien |
Murder in Little Egypt
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Joseph Wambaugh |
The Blooding
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Peter Elkind |
The Death Shift
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Linda Wolfe |
Wasted: The Preppie Murder
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Nominations 1989 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Harry N. MacLean |
In Broad Daylight
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Robert Lindsey |
A Gathering of Saints
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Pete Earley |
Family of Spies
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Lindsey Gruson |
Monkey on a Stick
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John Hubner |
Monkey on a Stick
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Paul Eddy |
The Cocaine Wars
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Hugo Sabogal |
The Cocaine Wars
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Sara Walden |
The Cocaine Wars
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Nominations 1988 »
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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Nominations 1987 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Carlton Stowers |
Careless Whispers
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Johnny France |
Incident at Big Sky
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Malcolm McConnell |
Incident at Big Sky
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Alan Prendergast |
The Poison Tree: A True Story of Family Violence and Revenge
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Daniel Keyes |
Unveiling Claudia
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Nicholas Pileggi |
Wiseguy
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Nominations 1986 »
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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Nominations 1985 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Mike Weiss |
Double Play
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John Cornwell |
Earth to Earth
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Jim Atkinson |
Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs
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Joe Bob Briggs |
Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs
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David Black |
Murder at the Met
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Jane Pejsa |
Molineux Affair
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Nominations 1984 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Shana Alexander |
Very Much a Lady
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Lawrence O'Donnell |
Deadly Force
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B.C. Hall |
Judgement Day
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Bob Lancaster |
Judgement Day
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Jack Olsen |
Son
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William Wright |
The Von Bu?low affair
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Nominations 1983 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Richard Hammer |
Vatican Connection
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Ernest Tidyman |
Big Bucks
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William Randolph Stevens |
Deadly Intentions
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David McClintick |
Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street
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Myron Farber |
Somebody is Lying: The Story of Doctor X
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Nominations 1982 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Robert W. Greene |
The Sting Man
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Ellen Godfrey |
By Reason of Doubt
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Gregory Wallance |
Papa's Game
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Seymour Reit |
Day they Stole the Mona Lisa
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Daniel Keyes |
The Minds of Billy Milligan
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Nominations 1981 »
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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Nominations 1980 »
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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Nominations 1979 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Vincent Bugliosi |
Till Death Us Do Part
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Ken Hurwitz |
Till Death Us Do Part
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Charles E. Silberman |
Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice
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Allen Weinstein |
Perjury: The Hiss\u2013Chambers Case
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Jack W. Baugh |
Why Have they Taken our Children?
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Jefferson Morgan |
Why Have they Taken our Children?
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Nominations 1978 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Barbara Amiel |
By Persons Unknown
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George Jonas |
By Persons Unknown
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Lacey Fosburgh |
Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder
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Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht |
Justice Crucified
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Clark Howard |
Six Against the Rock
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Paul Avery |
The Voices of Guns: The Definitive and Dramatic Story of the Twenty-two-month Career of the Symbionese Liberation Army, One of the Most Bizarre Chapters in the History of the American Left
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Vin McLellan |
The Voices of Guns: The Definitive and Dramatic Story of the Twenty-two-month Career of the Symbionese Liberation Army, One of the Most Bizarre Chapters in the History of the American Left
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Nominations 1977 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Thomas Thompson |
Blood and Money
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Margaret Barnes |
Murder in Coweta County
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Edward Keyes |
The Michigan Murders
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Nominations 1976 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Tom Wicker |
A Time to Die
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Gene Miller |
Invitation to a Lynching
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Isser Harel |
The House on Garibaldi Street
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Nominations 1975 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Vincent Bugliosi |
Helter Skelter
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Curt Gentry |
Helter Skelter
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Ernest Tidyman |
Dummy
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Gerald Meyer |
The Memphis Murders
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Nominations 1974 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Barbara Levy |
Legacy of Death
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Ed Cray |
Burden of Proof: The Case of Juan Corona
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Louis Nizer |
The Implosion Conspiracy
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Paulette Cooper |
The Medical Detectives
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John Pearson |
Profession of Violence
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Nominations 1973 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Lewis Chester |
Hoax
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Stephen Fay |
Hoax
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Magnus Linklater |
Hoax
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Gordon Thomas |
Shipwreck
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Max Morgan-Witts |
Shipwreck
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A. Greene |
Santa Claus Bank Robbery
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T.P. Slattery |
They Got to Find Me Guilty Yet
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Nominations 1972 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Sandor Frankel |
Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
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Robert Sullivan |
The Disappearence of Dr. Parkman
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William A. Clark |
The Girl on the Volkswagen Floor
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Nominations 1971 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Mildred Savage |
A Great Fall
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Ramsey Clark |
Crime in America: Observations on its Nature, Causes, Prevention, and Control
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Girard Chester |
The Ninth Juror
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Nominations 1970 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Herbert B. Ehrmann |
The Case that will not Die
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Dan T. Carter |
Scottsboro
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Kenneth G. Gross |
The Victims
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Bernard Lefkowitz |
The Victims
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Fred C. Shapiro |
Whitmore
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Nominations 1969 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
John Evangelist Walsh |
Poe the Detective
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John Frasca |
The Mulberry Tree
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Norman Zierold |
Three Sisters in Black
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Nominations 1968 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Victoria Lincoln |
A Private Disgrace
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Margaret B. Kreig |
Black Market Medicine
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Curt Gentry |
Frame-up
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Selwyn Raab |
Justice in the Back Room
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Nominations 1967 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Gerold Frank |
The Boston Strangler
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Julian Symons |
Crime and Detection
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Elwyn Jones |
The Last Two to Hang
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Nominations 1966 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Truman Capote |
In Cold Blood
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Harry Golden |
A Little Girl is Dead
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Miriam Allen deFord |
Murderers Sane and Mad
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Jürgen Thorwald |
The Century of the Detective
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Lawrence Blochman |
The Power of Life and Death
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Michael DiSalle |
The Power of Life and Death
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Nominations 1965 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Anthony Lewis |
Gideon's Trumpet: How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court - and Changed the Law of the United States
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Arthur H. Lewis |
Lament for the Molly Maguires
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Norman Lewis |
The Honoured Society
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William Kunstler |
The Minister and the Choir Singer
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Wayne G. Broehl |
The Molly Maguires
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Nominations 1964 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Gerold Frank |
The Deed
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Brad Williams |
Flight 967
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Peter Wyden |
The Hired Killers
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Nominations 1963 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Francis Russell |
Tragedy in Dedham
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Nominations 1962 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Barrett Prettyman Jr. |
Death and the Supreme Court
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George Waller |
Kidnap: The Story of the Lindbergh Case
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Edward D. Radin |
Lizzie Borden
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Paul Holmes |
The Sheppard Murder Case
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Nominations 1961 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Miriam Allen deFord |
The Overbury Affair
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Christianna Brand |
Heaven Knows Who
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Sydney Smith |
Mostly Murder
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Nominations 1960 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Thomas Gallagher |
Fire at Sea
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Eugene B. Block |
Great Train Robberies of the West
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Nominations 1959 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Wenzell Brown |
They Died in the Chair
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Edward D. Radin |
The Deadly Reasons
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Berton Roueché |
The Incurable Wound
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Edgar Lustgarten |
The Murder and the Trial
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Hillel Black |
The Royal Vultures
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Nominations 1958 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Harold R. Danforth |
The D.A.'s Man
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James David Horan |
The D.A.'s Man
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Henry Goddard |
Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner
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Patrick Pringle |
Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner
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Joseph Henry Jackson |
The Girl in the Belfry
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Lenore Glen Offord |
The Girl in the Belfry
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Nominations 1957 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Charles Samuels |
Night Fell on Georgia
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Louise Samuels |
Night Fell on Georgia
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Hugh Ross Williamson |
Historical Whodunits
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William Bradford Huie |
Ruby McCollum
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Nominations 1956 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Manly Wade Wellman |
Dead and Gone: Classic Crimes of North Carolina
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Robert J. Donovan |
The Assassins
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Lillian de la Torre |
The Truth about Belle Gunness
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Nominations 1955 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Charles Boswell |
The Girl with the Scarlet Brand
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Lewis Thompson |
The Girl with the Scarlet Brand
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Nominations 1954 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
John Bartlow Martin |
Why Did they Kill?
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Nominations 1953 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Erle Stanley Gardner |
The Court of Last Resort
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Nominations 1952 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
St. Clair McKelway |
True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality
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W.T. Brannon |
Lady: Killers
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Nominations 1951 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Edward D. Radin |
Twelve Against Crime
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Nominations 1950 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Joseph Henry Jackson |
Bad Company
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Nominations 1948 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Edward D. Radin |
Twelve Against the Law
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