Edgar Award winning novels

1954 - Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay
1955 - The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
1956 - Beast in View by	Margaret Millar
1957 - A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong
1958 - Room to Swing by Ed Lacy
1959 - The Eighth Circle by Stanley Ellin
1960 - The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin
1961 - The Progress of a Crime by Julian Symons
1962 - Gideon's Fire by J.J. Marric
1963 - Death and the Joyful Woman by Ellis Peters
1964 - The Light of Day by Eric Ambler
1965 - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre
1966 - The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall
1967 - The King of the Rainy Country by Nicolas Freeling
1968 - God Save the Mark by Donald E. Westlake
1969 - A Case of Need by Jeffery Hudson
1970 - Forfeit by Dick Francis
1971 - The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
1972 - The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
1973 - The Lingala Code by Warren Kiefer
1974 - Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman
1975 - Peter's Pence	by Jon Cleary
1976 - Hopscotch by Brian Garfield
1977 - Promised Land by Robert B. Parker
1978 - Catch Me: Kill Me by William H. Hallahan
1979 - The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
1980 - The Rheingold Route by Arthur Maling
1981 - Whip Hand by Dick Francis
1982 - Peregrine by William Bayer
1983 - Billingsgate Shoal by Rick Boyer
1984 - La Brava by Elmore Leonard
1985 - Briar Patch by Ross Thomas
1986 - The Suspect by L.R. Wright
1987 - A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
1988 - Old Bones by Aaron Elkins
1989 - A Cold Red Sunrise by Stuart M. Kaminsky
1990 - Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke
1991 - New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith
1992 - A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block
1993 - Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron
1994 - The Sculptress by Minette Walters
1995 - The Red Scream by Mary Willis Walker
1996 - Come to Grief by Dick Francis
1997 - The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook
1998 - Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke
1999 - Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark
2000 - Bones by Jan Burke
2001 - The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
2002 - Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker
2003 - Winter and Night by S.J. Rozan
2004 - Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin
2005 - California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker
2006 - Citizen Vince by Jess Walter
2007 - The Janisarry Tree by Jason Goodwin
2008 - Down River by John Hart
2009 - Blue Heaven by C. J. Box
2010 - The Last Child by John Hart
2011 - The Lock Artists by Steve Hamilton
2012 - Gone by Mo Hayder
2013 - Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
2014 - Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
2015 - Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King