The Edgar Allan Poe Awards 1969
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: A CASE OF NEED, by Jeffrey Hudson.

Nominated:
PICTURE MISS SEETON, by Heron Carvic (Harper & Row)
GOD SPEED THE NIGHT, by Dorothy Salisbury Davis and Jerome Ross (Scribner's)
THE GLASS-SIDED ANTS' NEST, by Peter Dickinson (Harper & Row)
THE VALENTINE ESTATE, by Stanley Ellin (Random House)
BLOOD SPORT, by Dick Francis (Harper & Row)

Best First Novel:  SILVER STREET, by E. Richard Johnson (Harper & Row)  and  THE BAIT, by Dorothy Uhnak (Simon & Schuster)

   Nominated:
   THE DINOSAUR, by Lawrence Kamarck (Random House)

Best Fact Crime: POE THE DETECTIVE, by John Walsh (Rutgers Univ. Press)

   Nominated:
   THE MULBERRY TREE, by John Frasca (Prentice Hall)
   THREE SISTERS IN BLACK, by Norman Zierold (Little, Brown)

Best Short Story: "The Man Who Fooled the World", by Warner Law. (in Saturday Evening Post, August 24, 1968).

Nominated:
"The Last Bottle in the World" by Stanley Ellin (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2/68)
"Crooked Bone" by Gerald Kersh (Saturday Evening Post 8/10/68)
"Success of a Mission" by William Arden (Argosy 4/68)
"Moment of Power" by P.D. James (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 7/68)

Best Juvenile:  THE HOUSE OF DIES DREAR by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)

    Nominated:
    MYSTERY OF THE FAT CAT by Frank Bonham (Dutton)
    SMUGGLERS' ROAD by Hal G. Evarts (Scribner's)
    FORGERY! by Phyllis Bentley (Doubleday)


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