Best Novel: DANCE HALL
OF THE DEAD,
by Tony Hillerman.
Nominated:
THE RAINBIRD
PATTERN, by Victor Canning (William Morrow)
AMIGO, AMIGO,
by Francis Clifford (Coward, McCann, Geoghegan)
AN UNSUITABLE JOB
FOR A WOMAN, by P.D. James (Scribner's)
DEAR LAURA,
by Jean Stubbs (Stein & Day)
Best First Novel: THE BILLION DOLLAR SURE
THING, by Paul
E. Erdman
Nominated:
KICKED TO DEATH BY A CAMEL, by Clarence Jackson
(Harper & Row)
MAN ON A STRING, by Michael Wolfe (Harper &
Row)
MANY HAPPY RETURNS, by Justin Scott (David McKay)
SOMEONE'S DEATH, by Charles Larson (Lippincott)
Best Paperback Original: DEATH OF AN
INFORMER by
Will Perry (Pyramid)
Nominated:
THE BIG FIX by Roger L. Simon (Straight Arrow)
DEADLOCKED! by Leo P. Kelley (Facett Gold Medal)
THE MEDITERRANEAN CAPER by Clive Cussler (Pyramid)
STARLING STREET by Dinah Palmtag (Dell)
Best Fact Crime: LEGACY OF DEATH, by
Barbara Levy (Prentice
Hall)
Nominated:
THE IMPLOSION CONSPIRACY, by Louis Nizer
(Doubleday)
THE MEDICAL DETECTIVES, by Paulette Cooper (David
McKay)
THE PROFESSION OF VIOLENCE, by John Pearson
(Saturday
Review Press)
BURDEN OF PROOF, by Ed Cray (Macmillan)
Best Short Story: "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs",
by Harlan Ellison (in: Bad
Moon Rising, ed. Thomas M. Disch)
Nominated:
"Do With Me What You Will" by Joyce Carol Oates (Playboy, June 1973)
"The Ghosts at Iron River" by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (MEN & MALICE, Doubleday)
"The O'Bannon Blarney File" by Joe Gores (MEN & MALICE, Doubleday)
"Fifty Years After" by Anthony Gilbert (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine,
March 1973)
Best Juvenile: THE LONG BLACK COAT
by Jay Bennett
(Delacorte)
Nominated:
DREAMLAND LAKE by Richard Peck (Holt,
Rinehart
& Winston)
MYSTERY OF THE SCOWLING BOY by Phyllis A.
Whitney (Westminster Press)
THE SECRET OF THE SEVEN CROWS by Wylly Folk
St. John (Viking Press)
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