Best Novel: THE LINGALA CODE,
by Warren
Kiefer.
Nominated:
FIVE PIECES OF
JADE, by John Ball (Little, Brown)
TIED UP IN TINSEL,
by Ngaio Marsh (Little, Brown)
THE SHOOTING
GALLERY, by Hugh C. Rae (Coward, McCann, Geoghegan)
CANTO FOR A GYPSY,
by Martin Cruz Smith (Putnam)
Best First Novel: SQUAW POINT, by
R.H. Shimer (Harper
& Row)
Nominated:
BOX 100, by Frank Leonard (Harper & Row)
THE DEAD OF WINTER, by William H. Hallahan
(Bobbs-Merrill)
THE HEART OF THE DOG, by Thomas A. Roberts (Random
House)
A PERSON SHOULDN'T DIE LIKE THAT, by Arthur
Goldstein
(Random House)
Best Paperback Original: THE INVADER
by Richard
Wormser (Gold Medal)
Nominated:
NOT DEAD YET by Daniel Banko (Gold Medal)
POWER KILL by Charles Runyon (Gold Medal)
THE SMITH CONSPIRACY by Richard Neely (Signet)
Best Fact Crime: HOAX, by Stephen Fay,
Lewis Chester and
Magnus Linkletter (Viking)
Nominated:
THE SANTA CLAUS BANK ROBBERY, by A.C. Greene
(Knopf)
SHIPWRECK, by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts
(Stein & Day)
THEY GOT TO FIND ME GUILTY YET, by T.P. Slattery
(Doubleday)
Best Short Story: "The Purple Shroud", by Joyce
Harrington. (in: Ellery Queen
Mystery Magazine, September, 1972)
Nominated:
"Celestine" by George Bradshaw (Ladies'
Home Journal, October 1972)
"Frightened Lady" by C.B. Gilford (Alfred
Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, July 1972)
"Hijack" by Robert L. Fish (Playboy
August 1972)
"Island of Bright Birds" by John Christopher (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine,
February 1972)
Best Juvenile: DEATHWATCH by Robb
White (Doubleday)
Nominated:
CATCH A KILLER by George A. Woods (Harper
& Row)
ELIZABETH'S TOWER by A.C. Stewart (S.G.
Phillips)
UNCLE ROBERT'S SECRET by Wylly Folk St. John
(Viking)
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