Best Novel: WHIP HAND,
by Dick
Francis.
Nominated:
DEATH OF A
LITERARY WIDOW, by Robert Barnard (Scribner's)
DEATH DROP,
by B.M. Gill (Scribner's)
THE SPY'S WIFE,
by Reginald Hill (Pantheon)
MAN ON FIRE,
by A.J. Quinell (Wm. Morrow)
Best First Novel: THE WATCHER, by
Kay Nolte Smith
Nominated:
WINDS OF THE OLD DAYS, by Betsy Aswald (Dial)
THE REMBRANDT PANEL, by Oliver Banks (Little,
Brown)
DOUBLE NEGATIVE, by David Carkeet (Dial)
THE OTHER ANN FLETCHER, by Susanne Jaffe (NAL)
Best Paperback Original: PUBLIC MURDERS
by Bill
Granger (Jove)
Nominated:
TOUGH LUCK, L.A. by Murray Sinclair (Pinnacle)
BLOOD INNOCENTS by Thomas H. Cook (Playboy)
LOOKING FOR GINGER NORTH by John Dunning (Fawcett)
Best Fact Crime: A TRUE DELIVERANCE,
by Fred Harwell
(Knopf)
Nominated:
ASSASSINATION OF EMBASSY ROW, by John Dinges
and Saul Landeau (Pantheon)
THE TRIAL OF POLICEMAN THOMAS SHEA, by
Thomas
Hawser (Viking)
Best Critical or Biographical Work: TWENTIETH
CENTURY
CRIME AND MYSTERY WRITERS, by John Reilly (St. Martin's)
Nominated:
WATTEAU'S SHEPHERDS: THE DETECTIVE NOVEL IN
BRITAIN
1914-1940, by Leroy Lad Panek (Bowling Green Popular Press)
A TALENT TO DECEIVE: AN APPRECIATION OF AGATHA
CHRISTIE, by Robert Barnard (Dodd, Mead)
Best Short Story: "Horn Man", by Clark Howard (in
Ellery Queen Mystery
Magazine, July, 1980).
Nominated:
"The Choirboy" by William Bankier (in Alfred
Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, December 15, 1980)
"Until You Are Dead" by John Lutz (in Alfred
Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, January 30, 1980)
"The Most Dangerous Man Alive" by Edward D. Hoch (Ellery Queen Mystery
Magazine 5/80)
Best Juvenile: THE SEANCE by Joan
Lowery Nixon (Harcourt,
Brace, Jovanovich)
Nominated:
WHEN NO ONE WAS LOOKING by Rosemary Wells
(Dial Press)
WE DARE NOT GO A-HUNTING by Charlotte
MacLeod
(Atheneum)
MORE MINDEN CURSES by Willo Davis Roberts
(Atheneum)
THE DOGGONE MYSTERY by Mary Blount Christian
(Albert Whitman)
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