Best Novel:
BOOTLEGGER'S DAUGHTER, by Margaret Maron.
Nominated:
BACKHAND,
by Liza Cody (Doubleday Perfect Crime)
32 CADILLACS,
by Joe Gores (Mysterious Press)
WHITE BUTTERFLY,
by Walter Mosley (Norton)
POMONA QUEEN,
by Kem Nunn (Pocket Books)
Best First Novel:
THE BLACK ECHO, by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
Nominated:
TRAIL OF MURDER, by Christine Andreae (St.
Martin's)
TRICK OF THE EYE, by Jane Stanton Hitchcock
(Dutton)
LADYSTINGER, by Craig Smith (Crown)
Best Paperback Original:
A COLD DAY FOR MURDER by Dana Stabenow (Berkley)
Nominated:
THE GOOD FRIDAY by Lee Harris (Fawcett)
PRINCIPAL DEFENSE by Gini Hartzmark (Ivy)
SHALLOW GRAVES by William Jefferies (Avon)
NIGHT CRUISE by Billie Sue Mosiman (Jove)
Best Fact Crime:
SWIFT JUSTICE: MURDER AND VENGEANCE IN A CALIFORNIA TOWN,
by
Harry Farrell (St. Martin's)
Nominated:
THE TRUNK MURDERESS: WINNIE RUTH JUDD, by
Jana Bommersbach (Simon & Schuster)
BLOOD ECHOES, by Thomas H. Cook (Dutton)
EVERYTHING SHE EVER WANTED, by Ann Rule
(Simon
& Schuster)
MY HUSBAND'S TRYING TO KILL ME, by Jim
Schutze
(HarperCollins)
Best Critical or Biographical Work:
ALIAS S.S. VAN DINE, by John Loughery (Scribner's)
Nominated:
DOROTHY L. SAYERS: A CARELESS RAGE FOR LIFE,
by David Coomes (Lion Publishing)
EDGAR ALLAN POE: HIS LIFE AND LEGACY, by
Jeffrey Meyers (Scribner's)
DOUBLEDAY CRIME CLUB COMPENDIUM, 1928-1991,
by Ellen Nehr (Offspring Press)
Best Short Story: "Mary, Mary, Shut the Door", by
Benjamin M.
Schutz. (In: Deadly Allies :
Private Eye Writers of America / Sisters in Crime collaborative
anthology)
Nominated:
"Candles in the Rain" by Doug Allyn (Ellery
Queen Mystery Magazine 11/92)
"Howler" by Jo Bannister (Ellery
Queen Mystery Magazine 10/92)
"Louise" by Max Allan Collins (DEADLY
ALLIES, Doubleday Perfect Crime)
"One Hit Wonder" by Gabrielle Kraft (SISTERS IN CRIME 5, Berkley)
Best Young Adult:
A LITTLE BIT DEAD by Chap Reaver (Delacorte)
Nominated:
BREAKING THE FALL by Michael Cadnum (Viking)
THE ONE WHO CAME BACK by Joann Mazzio
(Houghton
Mifflin)
THE WEEKEND WAS MURDER by Joan Lowery Nixon
(Delacorte)
THE HIGHEST FORM OF KILLING by Malcolm Rose
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
Best Juvenile:
COFFIN ON A CASE, by Eve Bunting (HarperCollins)
Nominated:
FISH AND BONES by Ray Prather (Harcourt
Brace
Jovanovich)
THE WIDOW'S BROOM by Chris Van Allsburg
(Houghton
Mifflin)
SUSANNAH AND THE PURPLE MONGOOSE by Patricia
Elmore (Dutton)
THE TREASURE BIRD by Peni R. Griffin
(McElderry
Books)
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