Best Novel: THE
PROGRESS OF A CRIME,
by Julian Symons.
Nominated:
THE TRACES OF
BRILLHART, by Herbert Brean (Harper)
THE DEVIL'S OWN,
by Peter Curtis (Doubleday Crime Club)
WATCHER IN THE
SHADOWS, by Geoffrey Household (Little, Brown)
Best First Novel: THE MAN IN THE CAGE,
by John Holbrooke
Vance
Nominated:
THE MERCENARIES, by Donald E. Westlake (Random
House)
CASE PENDING, by Dell Shannon (Harper)
THE KILLING AT BIG TREE, by David McCarthy
(Doubleday)
THE MARRIAGE CAGE, by William Johnston (Lyle
Stuart)
Best Fact Crime: THE OVERBURY AFFAIR, by
Miriam Allen
deFord (Chilton)
Nominated:
MOSTLY MURDER, by Sir Sydney Smith (McKay)
HEAVEN KNOWS WHO, by Christianna Brand
(Scribner's)
Best Short Story: "Tiger", by John Durham (in Cosmopolitan,
February,
1960).
Nominated:
"A Real Live Murderer" by Donald Honig (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
10/60)
"Summer Evil" by Nora Kaplan (Alfred
Hitchcock Mystery Magazine 10/60)
"A View From the Terrace" by Mike Marmer (Cosmopolitan 12/60)
"Louisa, Please" by Shirley Jackson (Ladies'
Home Journal 2/60)
Best Juvenile: THE MYSTERY OF THE
HAUNTED POOL by
Phyllis A. Whitney (Westminster)
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