Best Novel: THE EIGHTH CIRCLE,
by Stanley
Ellin.
Nominated:
A GENTLEMAN CALLED,
by Dorothy Salisbury Davis (Scribner's)
THE MADHOUSE IN
WASHINGTON SQUARE, by David Alexander (Lippincott)
THE WOMAN IN THE
WOODS, by Lee Blackstock (Doubleday Crime Club)
Best First Novel: THE BRIGHT ROAD TO
FEAR, by Richard
Martin Stern (Ballantine)
Nominated:
THE MAN WHO DISAPPEARED, by Edgar J. Bohle (Random
House)
NOW WILL YOU TRY FOR MURDER?, by Harry Olesker
(Simon & Schuster)
DEATH OF A SPINSTER, by Frances Duncombe
(Scribner's)
Best Fact Crime: THEY DIED IN THE CHAIR,
by Wenzell Brown
(Popular Library)
Nominated:
THE DEADLY REASONS, by Edward D. Radin (Popular
Library)
THE ROYAL VULTURES, by Sam Kollman as told to
Hillel
Black (Pocket Books)
THE MURDER AND THE TRIAL, by Edgar Lustgarten
(Scribner's)
THE INCURABLE WOUND, by Berton Roueche (Little,
Brown)
Best Short Story: "Over There, Darkness", by
William O'Farrell. (Sleuth
10/58)
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