The Edgar Allan Poe Awards 1965
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:  THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, by John le Carré.

Nominated:
THE NIGHT OF THE GENERALS, by Hans Hellmut Kirst (Harper & Row)
THE FIEND, by Margaret Millar (Random House)
THIS ROUGH MAGIC, by Mary Stewart (Wm. Morrow)

Best First Novel: FRIDAY THE RABBI SLEPT LATE, by Harry Kemelman (Crown)

   Nominated:
   THE GRAVEMAKER'S HOUSE, by Rubin Weber (Harper & Row)
   IN THE LAST ANALYSIS, by Amanda Cross (Macmillan)

Best Fact Crime:  GIDEON'S TRUMPET, by Anthony Lewis (Random House)

   Nominated:
   THE MINISTER AND THE CHOIR SINGER, by William Kunstler (Wm. Morrow)
   THE HONORED SOCIETY, by Norman Lewis (Putnam)
   THE MOLLY MAGUIRES, by Wayne G. Broehl, Jr. (Harvard University Press)
   LAMENT FOR THE MOLLY MAGUIRES, by Arthur H. Lewis (Harcourt, Brace & World)

Best Short Story: "H as in Homicide", by Lawrence Treat (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March, 1964).

Nominated:
"A Soliloquy in Tongues" by William Wiser (Cosmopolitan 5/64)
"The Purple is Everything" by Dorothy Salisbury Davis (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 6/64)

Best Juvenile:  MYSTERY AT CRANE'S LANDING by Marcella Thum (Dodd, Mead)

    Nominated:
    A SPELL IS CAST by Eleanor Cameron (Little, Brown)
    TREASURE RIVER by Hal G. Evarts (Scribner's)
    PRIVATE EYES by Leo Kingman (Doubleday)


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