Best First Novel:  STRIKE THREE, YOU'RE DEAD, by R. D. Rosen (Walker)

   Nominated:
   A CREATIVE KIND OF KILLER, by Jack Early (Franklin Watts)
   FOUL SHOT, by Doug Hornig (Scribner's)
   SOMEONE ELSE'S GRAVE, by Alison Smith (St. Martin's)
   SWEET, SAVAGE DEATH, by Orania Papazoglou (Doubleday Crime Club)

Best Paperback Original:  GRANDMASTER by Warren Murphy and Molly Cochran (Pinnacle)

   Nominated:
   BLACK KNIGHT IN RED SQUARE by Stuart M. Kaminsky (Charter)
   THE KEYS TO BILLY TILLIO by Eric Blau (Pinnacle)
   THE SEVENTH SACRAMENT by Roland Cutler (Dell)
   WORDS CAN KILL by Kenn Davis (Fawcett Crest)

Best Fact Crime:  DOUBLE PLAY: THE SAN FRANCISCO CITY HALL KILLINGS, by Mike Weiss (Addison-Wesley)

    Nominated:
    EARTH TO EARTH, by John Cornwell (Ecco Press)
    EVIDENCE OF LOVE: A TRUE STORY OF PASSION AND DEATH IN THE SUBURBS, by John Bloom and Jim Atkinson (Texas Monthly Press)
    THE MOLINEUX AFFAIR, by Jane Pejsa (Kenwood Publishing)
    MURDER AT THE MET, by David Black (Dial Press)

Best Critical or Biographical Work:  NOVEL VERDICTS: A GUIDE TO COURTROOM FICTION, by Jon L. Breen (Scarecrow Press)

    Nominated:
    INWARD JOURNEY: ROSS MACDONALD Ralph B. Sipper, editor (Cordelia Editions)
    THE JAMES BOND BEDSIDE COMPANION, by Raymond Benson (Dodd, Mead)
    ONE LONELY KNIGHT: MICKEY SPILLANE'S MIKE HAMMER, by Max Allan Collins and James L. Traylor (Bowling Green Popular Press)
    ROSS MACDONALD, by Matthew J. Bruccoli (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)

Best Short Story: "By the Dawn's Early Light", by Lawrence Block (in Playboy, August, 1984).

Best Juvenile:  NIGHT CRY by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)

    Nominated:
    CHAMELEON THE SPY AND THE CASE OF THE VANISHING JEWELS by Diane R. Massie (Harper & Row)
    THE GHOSTS OF NOW by Joan Lowery Nixon (Delacorte Press)
    THE ISLAND ON BIRD STREET by Uri Orlev (Houghton Mifflin)
    THE THIRD EYE by Lois Duncan (Little, Brown)