Best Novel: PROMISED
LAND, by
Robert B. Parker.
Nominated:
A MADNESS OF THE
HEART, by Richard Neely (Crowell)
THE MAIN,
by Trevanian (Harcourt-Brace)
THE CAVANAUGH
QUEST, by Thomas Gifford (Putnam)
THE GLORY BOYS,
by Gerald Seymour (Random House)
Best First Novel: THE THOMAS BERRYMAN
NUMBER, by
James Patterson
Nominated:
STRAIGHT, by Steve Knickmeyer (Random House)
YOUR DAY IN THE BARREL, by Alan Furst (Atheneum)
FINAL PROOF, by Marie R. Reno (Harper & Row)
THE BIG PAY-OFF, by Janice Law (Houghton-Mifflin)
Best Paperback Original: CONFESS, FLETCH
by Gregory
Mcdonald (Avon)
Nominated:
THE CAPTIVE CITY by Daniel Da Cruz (Ballantine)
FREEZE FRAME by R.R. Irvine (Popular Library)
THE DARK SIDE by Kenn Davis and John Stanley
(Avon)
THE RETALIATORS by Donald Hamilton (Fawcett)
Best Fact Crime: BLOOD AND MONEY,
by Thomas Thompson
(Doubleday)
Nominated:
THE MICHIGAN MURDERS, by Edward Keyes
(Reader's
Digest Press)
MURDER IN COWETA COUNTY, by Margaret Anne
Barnes (Reader's Digest Press)
Best Critical or Biographical Work: ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
MYSTERY AND DETECTION, by Chris Steinbrunner, Otto Penzler, Marvin
Lachman and Charles Shibuk (McGraw Hill)
Nominated:
THE DANGEROUS EDGE, by Gavin Lambert
(Grossman)
THE LIFE OF RAYMOND CHANDLER, by Frank
McShane
(Dutton)
THE AGATHA CHRISTIE MYSTERY, by Derrick
Murdoch
(Pagurian Press)
THE MYSTERY STORY John Ball, editor (UC at
San Diego Publishers)
Best Short Story: "Like a Terrible Scream", by
Etta Revesz (in Ellery Queen Mystery
Magazine, May, 1976).
Nominated:
"Nobody Tells Me Anything" by Jack Ritchie (Ellery Queen Mystery
Magazine 10/76)
"Lavender Lady" by Barbara Callahan (Ellery
Queen Mystery
Magazine 4/76)
"Crazy Old Lady" by Avram Davidson (Ellery
Queen Mystery
Magazine 3/76)
"People Don't Do Such Things" by Ruth Rendell (THE FALLEN CURTAIN,
Doubleday)
Best Juvenile: ARE YOU IN THE HOUSE
ALONE? by Richard
Peck (Viking)
Nominated:
THE MASTER PUPPETEER by Katherine Peterson
(Crowell)
WILEY AND THE HAIRY MAN by Molly Garrett
Bang (Macmillan)
MR. MOON'S LAST CASE by Brian Patten
(Scribner's)
THE CHALK CROSS by Berthe Amoss (Seabury)
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