Best Novel: THE KING OF
THE RAINY
COUNTRY, by Nicholas
Freeling.
Nominated:
ODDS AGAINST,
by Dick Francis (Harper & Row)
KILLER DOLPHIN,
by Ngaio Marsh (Little, Brown)
THE BUSY BODY,
by Donald E. Westlake (Random House)
Best First Novel: THE COLD WAR SWAP, by
Ross Thomas (Morrow)
Nominated:
A KIND OF TREASON, by Robert S. Elegant (Holt,
Rinehart & Winston)
FANCY'S KNELL, by Babs Deal (Doubleday)
THE PEDESTAL, by George Lanning (Harper & Row)
Best Fact Crime: THE BOSTON STRANGLER, by
Gerold Frank
(New American Library)
Nominated:
CRIME AND DETECTION, by Julian Symons (Crown)
THE LAST TWO TO HANG, by Elwyn Jones (Stein &
Day)
Best Short Story: "The Chosen One", by Rhys
Davies (in The New
Yorker June 4, 1966).
Nominated:
"Master of the Hounds" by Algis Budrys (Saturday Evening Post 8/27)
"The Hochmann Miniatures" by Robert L. Fish (Argosy 3/66)
"The Splintered Monday" by Charlotte Armstrong (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 3/66)
Best Juvenile: SINBAD AND ME by Kin
Platt (Chilton)
Nominated:
RANSOM by Lois Duncan (Doubleday)
DANGER BEATS THE DRUM by Arnold Madison
(Holt,
Rinehart & Winston)
MYSTERY OF THE RED TIDE by Frank Bonham
(Dutton)
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