Best Novel: BILLINGSGATE
SHOAL,
by Rick Boyer.
Nominated:
THE CAPTAIN,
by Seymour Shubin (Stein & Day)
EIGHT MILLION
WAYS TO DIE, by Lawrence Block (Arbor House)
KAHAWA, by
Donald E. Westlake (Viking)
SPLIT IMAGES,
by Elmore Leonard (Arbor House)
Best First Novel: THE BUTCHER'S
BOY, by Thomas
Perry (Scribner's)
Nominated:
BY FREQUENT ANGUISH, by S.F.X Dean (Walker)
IN THE HEAT OF THE SUMMER, by John Katzenbach
(Atheneum)
TWO IF, BY SEA, by Ernest Savage (Scribner's)
UNHOLY COMMUNION, by Richard Hughes (Doubleday)
Best Paperback Original: TRIANGLE by
Teri White
(Ace/Charter)
Nominated:
CLANDESTINE by James Ellroy (Avon)
THE MISSING AND THE DEAD by Jack Lynch (Fawcett)
VITAL SIGNS by Ralph Burrows, M.D. (Fawcett)
Best Fact Crime: THE VATICAN CONNECTION,
by Richard
Hammer (Holt, Reinhart & Winston)
Nominated:
BIG BUCKS, by Ernest Tidyman (Norton)
DEADLY INTENTIONS, by William Randolph
Stevens
(Condon & Weed)
INDECENT EXPOSURE, by David McClintock (Wm.
Morrow)
SOMEBODY IS LYING: THE STORY OF DOCTOR X.,
by Myron Farber (Doubleday)
Best Critical or Biographical Work: CAIN,
by Roy
Hoopes (Holt, Rinehart & Winston)
Nominated:
GUN IN CHEEK, by Bill Pronzini (Coward,
McCann
& Geoghegan)
MODUS OPERANDI, by Robin W. Winks (David
R. Godine)
THE POLICE PROCEDURAL, by George N. Dove
(Bowling Green Popular Press)
Best Short Story: "There Are No Snakes in
Ireland", by Frederick
Forsyth (No Comebacks,
1982; Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine,
#487, January, 1984).
Nominated:
"Tall Tommy and the Millionaire" by S. S. Rafferty (in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine,
September, 1982)
"A Decent Price for a Painting" by James Holding (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine,
August 1982)
"All the Heroes are Dead" by Clark Howard (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 12/82)
Best Juvenile: THE MURDER OF HOUND DOG
BATES by
Robbie Branscum (Viking)
Nominated:
CADBURY'S COFFIN by Glendon Swarthout and
Kathryn Swarthout (Doubleday)
THE CASE OF THE COP CATCHERS by Terrance
Dicks (Lodestar/Dutton)
CLONE CATCHER by Alfred Slote (Lippincott)
KEPT IN THE DARK by Nina Bawden (Lothrop,
Lee & Shepard)
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