Best Novel: A
DARK-ADAPTED EYE, by
Barbara Vine.
Nominated:
THE BLIND RUN,
by Brian Freemantle (Bantam)
COME MORNING,
by Joe Gores (Mysterious Press)
THE STRAIGHT MAN,
by Roger L. Simon (Villard)
A TASTE FOR DEATH,
by P. D. James (Knopf)
Best First Novel: NO ONE RIDES
FOR FREE, by
Larry Beinhart (Wm. Morrow)
Nominated:
DEAD AIR, by Mike Lupica (Villard)
FLOATER, by Joseph Koenig (Mysterious Press)
LOST, by Gary Devon (Knopf)
RICEBURNER, by Richard Hyer (Scribner's)
Best Paperback Original: THE JUNKYARD
DOG by Robert
Campbell (Signet)
Nominated:
THE CAT WHO SAW RED by Lilian Jackson Braun (Jove)
HAZZARD by R. D. Brown (Bantam)
RONIN by Nick Christian (Tor)
SHATTERED MOON by Kate Green (Dell)
Best Fact Crime: CARELESS WHISPERS: THE
TRUE STORY OF
A TRIPLE MURDER AND THE DETERMINED LAWMAN WHO WOULDN'T GIVE UP, by
Carlton Stowers
Nominated:
INCIDENT AT BIG SKY: SHERIFF JOHNNY FRANCE AND
THE MOUNTAIN MEN, by Johnny France and Malcolm McConnell (Norton)
THE POISON TREE: A TRUE STORY OF FAMILY VIOLENCE
AND REVENGE, by Alan Prendergast (Putnam)
UNVEILING CLAUDIA: A TRUE STORY OF SERIAL MURDER,
by Daniel Keyes (Bantam)
WISEGUY: LIFE IN A MAFIA FAMILY, by Nicholas
Pileggi (Simon & Schuster)
Best Critical or Biographical Work: HERE
LIES: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY,
by Eric Ambler (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Nominated:
THE MYSTERY LOVER'S COMPANION, by Art
Bourgeau
(Crown)
1001 MIDNIGHTS: THE AFICIONADO'S GUIDE TO
MYSTERY
FICTION, by Bill Pronzini and Marcia Muller (Arbor House)
THE SECRET OF THE STRATEMEYER SYNDICATE: NANCY
DREW, THE HARDY BOYS & THE MILLION DOLLAR FICTION FACTORY, by
Carol
Billman (Ungar)
13 MISTRESSES OF MURDER, by Elaine Budd
(Ungar)
Best Short Story: "Rain in Pinton County", by
Robert Sampson
(in New Black Mask, May,
1986).
Nominated:
"The Puddle Diver" by Doug Allyn (in Alfred
Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, October, 1986)
"Body Count" by Wayne D. Dundee (MEAN STREETS, Mysterious
Press)
"Christmas Cop" by Thomas Adcock (Ellery
Queen Mystery Magazine, March 1986)
"Driven" by Brendan DuBois (Ellery
Queen Mystery Magazine, Nov. 1986)
Best Juvenile: THE OTHER SIDE OF DARK
by Joan Lowery
Nixon (Delacorte)
Nominated:
FLOATING ILLUSIONS by Chelsea Quinn Yarbo
(Harper & Row)
THE SECRET LIFE OF DILLY McBEAN by Dorothy
Haas (Bradbury)
THE SKELETON MAN by Jay Bennett (Franklin
Watts)
THE BODIES IN THE BESSLEDORF HOTEL by
Phyllis
Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)
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