The Edgar Allan Poe Awards 1989
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:  A COLD RED SUNRISE, by Stuart M. Kaminsky.

Nominated:
A THIEF OF TIME, by Tony Hillerman (Harper & Row)
IN THE LAKE OF THE MOON, by David L. Lindsey (Atheneum)
JOEY'S CASE, by K. C. Contantine (Mysterious Press)
SACRIFICAL GROUND, by Thomas H. Cook (Putnam)

Best First Novel:   CAROLINA SKELETONS, by David Stout (Mysterious Press)

   Nominated:
   A GREAT DELIVERANCE, by Elizabeth George (Bantam)
   JULIAN SOLO, by Shelly Reuben (Dodd, Mead)
   MURDER ONCE DONE, by Mary Lou Bennett (Perseverance Press)
   THE MURDER OF FRAU SCHUTZ, by J. Madison Davis (Walker)

Best Paperback Original:  THE TELLING OF LIES by Timothy Findley (Dell)

   Nominated:
   A RADICAL DEPARTURE by Lia Matera (Bantam)
   JUDGEMENT BY FIRE by Fredrick D. Huebner (Fawcett)
   PREACHER by Ted Thackrey, Jr. (Jove)
   TRAPDOOR by Keith Peterson (Bantam)

Best Fact Crime:  IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, by Harry N. MacLean (Harper & Row)

    Nominated:
    A GATHERING OF SAINTS, by Robert Lindsey (Simon & Schuster)
    MONKEY ON A STICK, by John Hubner and Lindsey Gruson (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
    FAMILY OF SPIES: INSIDE THE JOHN WALKER SPY RING, by Pete Earley (Bantam)
    THE COCAINE WARS, by Paul Eddy with Hugo Sabogal and Sara Walden (Norton)

Best Critical or Biographical Work:  CORNELL WOOLRICH: FIRST YOU DREAM, THEN YOU DIE, by Francis M. Nevins, Jr. (Mysterious Press)

    Nominated:
    THE DIME DETECTIVES, by Ron Goulart (Mysterious Press)
    SILK STALKINGS: WHEN WOMEN WRITE OF MURDER, by Victoria Nichols and Susan Thompson (Black Lizard)
    SISTERS IN CRIME: FEMINISM AND THE CRIME NOVEL, by Maureen T. Reddy (Continuum)

Best Short Story: "Flicks", by Bill Crenshaw (in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, August, 1988).

Nominated:
"Déjà Vu" by Doug Allyn (in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, June, 1988)
"Bridey’s Caller" by Judith O'Neill (in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, May, 1988)
"The Alley" by Stephen Wasylyk (in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, November, 1988)
"Incident in a Neighborhood Tavern" by Bill Pronzini (AN EYE FOR JUSTICE, Mysterious Press)

Best Young Adult:  INCIDENT AT LORING GROVES by Sonia Levitin (Dial)

    Nominated:
    SECOND FIDDLE by Ronald Kidd (Lodestar-Dutton)
    SHADOW IN THE NORTH by Philip Pullman (Knopf)
    THE ACCIDENT by Todd Strasser (Delacorte)
    THE FALCON STING by Barbara Brenner (Bradbury)

Best Juvenile:  MEGAN'S ISLAND by Willo Davis Roberts (Atheneum)

    Nominated:
    FOLLOWING THE MYSTERY MAN by Mary Downing Hahn (Clarion)
    IS ANYBODY THERE? by Eve Bunting (Lippincott)
    SOMETHING UPSTAIRS by Avi (Orchard Books)
    THE LAMP FROM THE WARLOCK'S TOMB by John Bellairs (Dial)


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