The Edgar Allan Poe Awards 1995
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 RED SCREAM, by Mary Willis Walker.

Nominated:
LIGHTS OUT by Peter Abrahams (Mysterious)
A LONG LINE OF DEAD MEN by Lawrence Block (Wm. Morrow)
MIAMI, IT'S MURDER by Edna Buchanan (Hyperion)
WEDNESDAY'S CHILD by Peter Robinson (Scribner's)

Best First Novel:
THE CAVEMAN'S VALENTINE, George Dawes Green

   Nominated:
   ONE FOR THE MONEY by Janet Evanovich (Scribner's)
   MALLORY'S ORACLE by Carol O'Connell (Putnam)
   SUSPICION OF INNOCENCE by Barbara Parker (Dutton)
   BIG TOWN by Dough J. Swanson (HarperCollins)

Best Paperback Original:
FINAL APPEAL by Lisa Scottoline (Harper)

    Nominated:
    THE BROKEN-HEARTED DETECTIVE by Milton Bass (Pocket)
    VIPER QUARRY by Dean Feldmeyer (Pocket)
    POWER OF ATTORNEY by Walter Sorrells (Avon)
    SUNRISE by Chassie West (Harper)

Best Fact Crime:  TO PROTECT AND TO SERVE: THE LAPD'S CENTURY OF WAR IN THE CITY OF DREAMS, by Joe Domanick (Pocket)

    Nominated:
    BEFORE HE WAKES by Jerry Bledsoe (Dutton)
    MISSISSIPPI MUD by Edward Humes (Simon & Schuster)
    IN THE BEST OF FAMILIES by Dennis McDougal (Warner)
    BREAKDOWN by Eileen McNamara (Pocket)

Best Critical or Biographical Work:
ENCYCLOPEDIA MYSTERIOUSA: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE ART OF DETECTION IN PRINT, FILM, RADIO, AND TELEVISION by William L. DeAndrea (Prentice Hall)

    Nominated:
    THE TONY HILLERMAN COMPANION edited by Martin Greenberg (HarperCollins)
    GREAT WOMEN MYSTERY WRITERS edited by Kathleen Gregory Klein (Greenwood)
    DICK TRACY AND AMERICAN CULTURE by Garyn G. Roberts (McFarland)
    BY A WOMAN'S HAND by Jean Swanson & Dean James (Berkley)

Best Short Story: "The Dancing Bear", by Doug Allyn (In: Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, March 1994)

Nominated:
"The Gentleman in the Lake" by Robert Barnard (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine July '94)
"The Tennis Court" by Brenda Melton Burnham (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine July '94)
"The Necessary Brother" by Brandan DuBois (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine May '94)
"An Eye for a Tooth" by Justin Scott (Justice in Manhattan, Longmeadow Press) 

Best Young Adult:
TOUGHING IT by Nancy Springer (Harcourt Brace)

    Nominated:
    POISON by Alane Ferguson (Bradbury)
    SHADOWMAKER by Joan Lowery Nixon (Delacorte)
    THE MIDNIGHT CLUB by Christopher Pike (Pocket)
    PALE PHOENIX by Kathryn Reiss (Harcourt Brace)

Best Juvenile:
THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE STORY... HOW I VISITED YELLOWSTONE PARK WITH THE TERRIBLE RUPES,  by Willo Davis Roberts (Atheneum)

    Nominated:
    HARVEY'S MYSTIFYING RACOON MIX UP by Eth Clifford (Houghton Mifflin)
    HESTER BIDGOOD INVESTIGATRIX OF EVIL DEEDS by E. W. Hildick (Macmillan)
    TROUBLE WILL FIND YOU by Joan M. Lexau (Houghton Mifflin)
    CAUGHT by Willo Davis Roberts (Atheneum)


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