Best Novel: PETER'S PENCE,
by Jon Cleary.
Nominated:
THE MAN WHO LOVED
ZOOS, by Malcolm Bosse (Putnam)
GOODBYE AND AMEN,
by Francis Clifford (Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich)
THE SILVER BEARS,
by Paul E. Erdman (Scribner's)
THE LESTER AFFAIR,
by Andrew Garve (Harper & Row)
Best First Novel: FLETCH, by
Gregory McDonald
(Bobbs-Merrill)
Nominated:
THE JONES MAN, by Vern E. Smith (Henry Regnery)
THE KREUTZMAN FORMULA, by Virgil Scott and Dominic
Koski
SATURDAY GAMES, by Brown Meggs (Random House)
TARGET PRACTICE, by Nicholas Meyer (Harcourt,
Brace
Jovanovich)
Best Paperback Original: THE CORPSE
THAT WALKED
by Roy Winsor (Fawcett)
Nominated:
FLATS FIXED - AMONG OTHER THINGS by Don Tracy
(Pocket
Books)
THE GRAVY TRAIN HIT by Curtis Stevens (Dell)
JUMP CUT by R.R. Irvine (Popular Library)
WHO KILLED MR. GARLAND'S MISTRESS? by Richard
Forrest
(Pinnacle)
Best Fact Crime: HELTER SKELTER, by
Vincent Bugliosi
and Curt Gentry (Norton)
Nominated:
THE MEMPHIS MURDERS, by Gerald Meyer
(Seabury
Press)
DUMMY, by Ernest Tidyman (Little, Brown)
Best Short Story: "The Fallen Curtain", by Ruth
Rendell (in: The Fallen
Curtain : eleven mystery stories by an Edgar-award winning writer)
Nominated:
"The Cabin in the Hollow" by Joyce Harrington (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 10/74)
"The Game" by Thomasina Weber (KILLERS
OF THE MIND, Random House)
"The Light in the Cottage" by David Ely (Playboy 10/74)
"A Night Out With The Boys" by Elsin Ann Gardner (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2/74)
"Screams and Echoes" by Donald Olson (Ellery
Queen Mystery Magazine 8/74)
Best Juvenile: THE DANGLING WITNESS
by Jay Bennett
(Delacorte)
Nominated:
FIRE IN THE STONE by Colin Thiele (Harper
& Row)
THE GIRL IN THE GROVE by David Severn
(Harper
& Row)
HERE LIES THE BODY by Scott Corbett
(Atlantic-Little,
Brown)
THE MYSTERIOUS RED TAPE GANG by Joan Lowery
Nixon (Putnam)
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