The Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2004
The Edgar Allan Poe awards (the "Edgars") are awarded by the Mystery Writers of America to authors of distinguished work in various categories of the mystery genre.  The following list is of print literature only.  The awards for television, motion pictures, and plays have been omitted.

Best Novel:
Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin

Nominated:
The Guards by Ken Bruen
Out by Natsuo Kirino
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

Best First Novel:

Death of a Nationalist by Rebecca Pawel

Nominated:
12 Bliss Street by Martha Conway
Offer of Proof by Robert Heilbrun
Night of the Dance by James Hime
The Bridge of Sighs by Olen Steinhauer

Best Paperback Original:
Find Me Again by Sylvia Maultash Warsh

Nominated:
Cut and Run by Jeff Abbott
The Last Witness by Joel Goldman
Wisdom of the Bones by Christopher Hyde
Southland by Nina Revoyr

Best Fact Crime:
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Nominated:
Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder by Steve Hodel
Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders by Dick Lehr and Mitchell Zuckoff
And The Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan & the Lynching of Leo Frank by Steve Oney
Rothstein: The Life, Times & Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series by David Pietrusza

Best Critical or Biographical Work:
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson

Nominated:
Mystery Women, Volume 3 by Colleen Barnett
Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium edited by Elizabeth Peters and Kristen Whitbread
Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light by Patrick McGilligan
The American Police Novel: A History by Leroy Lad Panek

Best Short Story:
"The Maids", by G. Miki Hayden (in: Blood on Their Hands)

Nominated:
"Bet on Red", by Jeff Abbott (in: High Stakes)
"Black Heart & Cabin Girl", by Shelly Costa (in:  Blood on Their Hands)
"Aces and Eights" by David Edgerley Gates (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Dec. 2003)
"Cowboy Grace", by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (in: The Silver Gryphon)

Best Young Adult:

Acceleration by Graham McNamee

Nominated:
The Last Treasure by Janet Anderson
Feast of Fools by Bridget Crowley
Death and the Arrow by Chris Priestly
Uncovering Sadie's Secrets by Libby Sternberg

Best Juvenile:

Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the Belfry by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Nominated:
The Malted Falcon by Bruce Hale
Lily's Ghosts by Laura Ruby
Dust by Arthur Slade
Sammy Keyes and the Art of Deception by Wendelin Van Draanen

120 Central Park Drive, Largo, FL, 33771    (727) 587-6748