The Edgar Allan Poe Awards 1984
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:  LA BRAVA, by Elmore Leonard.

Nominated:
THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL, by John le Carre (Knopf)
THE NAME OF THE ROSE, by Umberto Eco (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
THE PAPERS OF TONY VEITCH, by William McIlvanney (Pantheon)
TEXAS STATION, by Christopher Leach (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)

Best First Novel:   THE BAY PSALM BOOK MURDER, by Will Harriss (Walker)

   Nominated:
   CAROLINE MINUSCULE, by Andrew Taylor (Dodd, Mead)
   DEAD MAN'S THOUGHTS, by Carolyn Wheat (St. Martin's)
   THE GOLD SOLUTION, by Herbert Resnicow (St. Martin's)
   RED DIAMOND, PRIVATE EYE, by Mark Schorr (St. Martin's)

Best Paperback Original:  MRS. WHITE by Margaret Tracy (Dell)

   Nominated:
   FALSE PROPHETS by Sean Flannery (Charter)
   HUNTER by Eric Sauter (Avon)
   KILL FACTOR by Richard Harper (Fawcett)
   TRACE by Warren Murphy (Signet)

Best Fact Crime:  VERY MUCH A LADY, by Shana Alexander (Little, Brown)

    Nominated:
    DEADLY FORCE, by Lawrence O'Donnell, Jr. (Wm. Morrow)
    JUDGEMENT DAY, by Bob Lancaster and B. C. Hall (Seaview Putman)
    SON, by Jack Olsen (Atheneum)
    THE VON BULOW AFFAIR, by William Wright (Delcorte)

Best Critical or Biographical Work:  THE DARK SIDE OF GENIUS: THE LIFE OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK, by Donald Spoto (Little, Brown)

    Nominated:
    DASHIELL HAMMETT, by Diane Johnson (Random House)
    THE MYSTERY OF GEORGES SIMENON, by Fenton Bresler (Beaufort)
    THE POETICS OF MURDER Glenn W. Most and William W. Stowe, editors (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich)

Best Short Story: "The New Girlfriend", by Ruth Rendell (in The New Girlfriend and Other Stories)

Nominated:
"The Anderson Boy" by Joseph Hansen (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 9/83)
"Big Boy, Little Boy" by Simon Brett (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 7/83)
"Graffiti" by Stanley Ellin (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 3/83)
"Puerto Rican Blues" by Clark Howard (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 4/83)

Best Juvenile:  THE CALLENDER PAPERS by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)

    Nominated:
    THE DOLLHOUSE MURDERS by Betty Ren Wright (Holiday House)
    THE GRIFFIN LEGACY by Jan O'Donnell Klaveness (Macmillan)
    SHADRACH'S CROSSING by Avi (Pantheon)
    THE MAZE STONE by Eileen Dunlop (Coward-McCann)


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