Best First Novel:  A FRENCH FINISH, by Robert Ross (Putnam)

   Nominated:
   DEWEY DECIMATED, by Charles A. Goodrun (Crown)
   THE FAN, by Bob Randall (Random House)

Best Paperback Original:  THE QUARK MANEUVER by Mike Jahn (Ballantine)

   Nominated:
   TIME TO MURDER AND CREATE by Lawrence Block (Dell)
   THEY'VE KILLED ANNA by Mark Olden (Signet)
   THE TERRORIZERS by Donald Hamilton (Gold Medal)

Best Fact Crime:  BY PERSONS UNKNOWN, by George Jonas and Barbara Amiel (Grove Press)

    Nominated:
    CLOSING TIME, by Lacey Fosburgh (Delacorte)
    SIX AGAINST THE ROCK, by Clark Howard (Dial Press)
    THE VOICE OF GUNS, by Vin McLellan and Paul Avery (Putnam)
    JUSTICE CRUCIFIED, by Roberta S. Feuerlicht (McGraw Hill)

Best Critical or Biographical Work:  REX STOUT, by John McAleer (Little, Brown)

    Nominated:
    AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by Agatha Christie (Dodd, Mead)
    THE ENCYCLOPEDIA SHERLOCKIANA, by Jack Tracy (Doubleday)

Best Short Story: "Chance after Chance", by Thomas Walsh (in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November, 1977).

Nominated:
"The Last Rendezvous" by Jean Backus (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 9/77)
"Jode's Last Hunt" by Brian Garfield (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 1/77)
"The Problem of Li T'ang" by Geoffrey Bush (Atlantic Monthly 8/77)
"The Johore Murders" by Paul Theroux (Atlantic Monthly 3/77)

Best Juvenile:  A REALLY WEIRD SUMMER by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Atheneum)

    Nominated:
    MISS NELSON IS MISSING! by Harry Allard and James Marshall (Houghton Mifflin)
    POOR TOM'S GHOST by Jean Louise Curry (Atheneum)
    NIGHT SPELL by Robert Newman (Atheneum)