The Edgar Allan Poe Awards 1994
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
THE SCULPTRESS, by Minette Walters.

Nominated:
FREE FALL, by Robert Crais (Bantam)
SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW, by Peter Hoeg (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
WOLF IN THE SHADOWS, by Marcia Muller (Mysterious Press)
THE JOURNEYMAN TAILOR, by Gerald Seymour (HarperCollins)

Best First Novel:
A GRAVE TALENT, by Laurie King (St. Martin's)

   Nominated:
   THE LIST OF 7, by Mark Frost (Wm. Morrow)
   CRIMINAL SEDUCTION, by Darian North (Dutton)
   THE BALLAD OF ROCKY RUIZ, by Manuel Ramos (St. Martin's)
   ZADDIK, by David Rosenbaum (Mysterious Press)

Best Paperback Original:
DEAD FOLK'S BLUES by Steven Womack (Ballantine)

    Nominated:
    THE SERVANT'S TALE by Margaret Frazer (Jove/Berkley)
    TONY'S JUSTICE by Eugene Izzi (Bantam)
    BEYOND SARU by T. A. Roberts (Cliffhanger)
    EVERYWHERE THAT MARY WENT by Lisa Scottoline (Harper)

Best Fact Crime:  UNTIL THE TWELFTH OF NEVER: THE DEADLY DIVORCE OF DAN AND BETTY BRODERICK, by Bella Stumbo (Pocket Books)

    Nominated:
    LINDBERGH: THE CRIME, by Noel Behn (Atlantic Monthly/Grove)
    FINAL JUSTICE, by Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith (Dutton)
    THE MISBEGOTTEN SON, by Jack Olsen (Delacorte)
    GONE IN THE NIGHT, by David Protess & Rob Warden (Delacorte)

Best Critical or Biographical Work:  THE SAINT: A COMPLETE HISTORY IN PRINT, RADIO, FILM, AND TELEVISION, OF LESLIE CHARTERIS' ROBIN HOOD OF MODERN CRIME, SIMON TEMPLAR, 1928-1992, by Burl Barer (McFarland & Co.)

    Nominated:
    THE FINE ART OF MURDER edited, by Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg, Larry Segriff with Jon L. Breen (Carroll & Graf)
    A READER'S GUIDE TO THE AMERICAN NOVEL OF DETECTION, by Marvin Lachman (G.K. Hall)
    THE MAN WHO WASN'T MAIGRET, by Patrick Marnham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
    DOROTHY L. SAYERS: HER LIFE AND SOUL, by Barbara Reynolds (St. Martin's)

Best Short Story: "Keller's Therapy", by Lawrence Block (in Playboy, May, 1993)

Nominated:
"The Ghost Show" by Doug Allyn (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 12/93)
"Mefisto in Onyx" by Harlan Ellison (Omni 10/93)
"McIntyre's Donald" by Joseph Hansen (BOHANNON'S COUNTRY: MYSTERY STORIES)
"Enduring as Dust" by Bruce Holland Rogers (DANGER IN D.C, Donald I. Fine)

Best Young Adult:
THE NAME OF THE GAME WAS MURDER by Joan Lowery Nixon (Delacorte)

    Nominated:
    STRANGE OBJECTS by Gary Crew (Simon & Schuster)
    HELP WANTED by Richie Tankersley Cusick (Archway)
    CLASS TRIP by Bebe Faas Rice (Harper)
    SILENT WITNESS by Patricia H. Rushford (Bethany House)

Best Juvenile:
THE TWIN IN THE TAVERN by Barbara Brooks Wallace (Atheneum)

    Nominated:
    TANGLED WEBB by Eloise McGraw (Margaret K. McEdlderry Books)
    THE FACE IN THE BESSLEDORF FUNERAL PARLOR by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)
    SPIDER KANE AND THE MYSTERY AT JUMBO NIGHTCRAWLER'S by Mary Pope Osborne (Knopf)
    SAM THE CAT, DETECTIVE by Linda Stewart (Scholastic)


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