The Edgar Allan Poe Awards 1972
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 DAY OF THE JACKAL, by Frederick Forsyth.

Nominated:
THE FLY ON THE WALL, by Tony Hillerman (Harper & Row)
SHROUD FOR A NIGHTINGALE, by P.D. James (Scribner's)
SIR, YOU BASTARD, by G.F. Newman (Simon & Schuster)
WHO KILLED ENOCH POWELL?, by Arthur Wise (Harper & Row)

Best First Novel:  FINDING MAUBEE, by A.H.Z. Carr (Putnam)

   Nominated:
   GYPSY IN AMBER, by Martin Cruz Smith (Putnam)
   ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION, by Michael Z. Lewin (Putnam)
   TO SPITE HER FACE, by Hildegarde Dolson (Lippincott)
   THE STALKER, by Bill Pronzini (Random House)

Best Paperback Original:  FOR MURDER I CHARGE MORE by Frank McAuliffe (Ballantine)

   Nominated:
   THE WHITE WOLVERINE CONTRACT by Philip Atlee (Gold Medal)
   SPACE FOR HIRE by William F. Nolan (Lancer Books)
   NOR SPELL, NOR CHARM by Alicen White (Lancer Books)
   AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA by Charles Williams (Signet Books)

Best Fact Crime: BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT, by Sandor Frankel (Stein & Day)

   Nominated:
   THE DISAPPEARENCE OF DR. PARKMAN, by Robert Sullivan (Little, Brown)
   THE GIRL ON THE VOLKSWAGEN FLOOR, by William A. Clark (Harper & Row)

Best Short Story: "Moonlight Gardener", by Robert L. Fish. (Argosy Dec. 1971)

Nominated:
"Sardinian Incident" by Evan Hunter (Playboy 10/71)
"My Daughter is Dead" by Pauline C. Smith (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine 11/71)
"The Spivvleton Mystery" by Katherine Anne Porter (Ladies' Home Journal 8/71)

Best Juvenile:  NIGHTFALL by Joan Aiken (Holt, Rinehart & Winston)

    Nominated:
    THE GHOST OF BALLYHOOLY by Betty Cavanna (Wm. Morrow)
    GOODY HALL by Natalie Babbitt (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
    MYSTERY IN WALES by Mabel Esther Allan (Vanguard)


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