Best Novel: THE
LAUGHING POLICEMAN,
by Maj Sjowall
and Per Wahloo.
Nominated:
THE HOUND AND THE
FOX AND THE HARPER, by Shaun Herron (Random House)
BEYOND THIS POINT
ARE MONSTERS, by Margaret Millar (Random House)
MANY DEADLY
RETURNS, by Patricia Moyes (Holt, Rinehart & Winston)
AUTUMN OF A HUNTER,
by Pat Stadley (Random House)
THE HOT ROCK,
by Donald E. Westlake (Simon & Schuster)
Best First Novel: THE ANDERSON TAPES,
by Lawrence
Sanders (Putnam)
Nominated:
INCIDENT AT 125th STREET, by J.E. Brown
(Doubleday)
TAKING GARY FELDMAN, by Stanley Cohen (Putnam)
THE BLESSING WAY, by Tony Hillerman (Harper &
Row)
THE NAKED FACE, by Sidney Sheldon (Wm. Morrow)
Best Paperback Original: FLASHPOINT
by Dan J. Marlowe
(Gold Medal)
Nominated:
THE DROWNING by Jack Ehrlich (Pocket Books)
O.D. AT SWEET CLAUDE'S by Matt Gattzden (Belmont)
AFTER THINGS FELL APART by Ron Goulart (Ace)
GRAVE DESCEND by John Lange (Signet Books)
MAFIOSO by Peter McCurtin (Belmont)
Best Fact Crime: A GREAT FALL, by Mildred
Savage (Simon
& Schuster)
Nominated:
THE NINTH JUROR, by Girard Chester (Random House)
CRIME IN AMERICA, by Ramsey Clark (Simon &
Schuster)
Best Short Story: "In the Forests of Riga the
Beasts Are Very
Wild Indeed", by Margery Finn Brown (in McCall's, July, 1970).
Nominated:
"Miss Paisley on a Diet" by John Peirce (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2/70)
"Door to a Different World" by Anthony Gilbert (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 3/70)
Best Juvenile: THE INTRUDER by John
Rowe Townsend
(Lippincott)
Nominated:
THE MYSTERY MAN by Scott Corbett (Little,
Brown)
THE SECRET OF THE MISSING FOOTPRINT by
Phyllis
A. Whitney (Westminster Press)
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