The Edgar Allan Poe Awards 1980
The Edgar Allan Poe awards (the "Edgars") are awarded by the Mystery Writers of America to authors of distinguished work in various categories of the mystery genre.  The following list is of print literature only.  The awards for television, motion pictures, and plays have been omitted.

Best Novel: THE RHEINGOLD ROUTE, by Arthur Maling.

Nominated:
DEATH OF A MYSTERY WRITER, by Robert Barnard (Scribner's)
FIRE IN THE BARLEY, by Frank Parrish (Dodd, Mead)
MAKE DEATH LOVE ME, by Ruth Rendell (Doubleday)
A COAT OF VARNISH, by C.P. Snow (Scribner's)

Best First Novel:  THE LASKO TANGENT, by Richard North Patterson (Norton)

   Nominated:
   NIGHT TRAINS, by Peter Heath Fine (Lippincott)
   FOLLOW THE LEADER, by John Logue (Crown)

Best Paperback Original:  THE HOG MURDERS by William L. DeAndrea (Avon)

   Nominated:
   THE KREMLIN CONSPIRACY by Sean Flannery (Charter)
   VORTEX by David Heller (Avon)
   THE QUEEN IS DEAD by Glen Keger (Jove)
   THE INFERNAL DEVICE by Michael Kurland (New American Library)

Best Fact Crime:  THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN, by Robert Lindsey (Simon & Schuster)

    Nominated:
    ANYONE'S DAUGHTER, by Shana Alexander (Viking)
    BLOOD WILL TELL, by Gary Cartwright (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
    SENTENCED TO DIE, by Stephen H. Gettinger (Macmillan)
    ZEBRA, by Clark Howard (Marek)

Best Critical or Biographical Work:  DOROTHY L. SAYERS, A LITERARY BIOGRAPHY, by Ralph E. Hone (Kent State U. Press)

    Nominated:
    THE SECRETS OF GROWN-UPS, by Vera Caspary (McGraw-Hill)
    AS HER WHIMSEY TOOK HER Margaret Hannay, editor (Kent State U. Press)
    SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE MAN AND HIS WORLD, by H. R. F Keating (Scribner's)

Best Short Story: "Armed and Dangerous", by Geoffrey Norman (in Esquire, March, 1979).

Nominated:
"Used in Evidence" by Frederick Forsyth (Playboy l2/79)
"Scrimshaw" by Brian Garfield (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 12/79)
"The Boiler" by Julian Symons (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 11/79)
"The Imperial Ice House" by Paul Theroux (Atlantic Monthly 4/79)

Best Juvenile:  THE KIDNAPPING OF CHRISTINA LATTIMORE by Joan Lowery Nixon (Harcourt/Brace/Jovanovich)

    Nominated:
    MYSTERY COTTAGE IN LEFT FIELD by Remus F. Caroselli (Putnam)
    THE WHISPERED HORSE by Lynn Hall (Follett)
    CHAMELEON WAS A SPY by Diane Redfield Massie (Crowell)
    MYSTERY OF THE EAGLE'S CLAW by Frances Wosmek (Westminster)


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