The Edgar Allan Poe Awards 1996
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:
COME TO GRIEF, by Dick Francis

Nominated:
THE BOOKMAN'S WAKE, by John Dunning (Scribner)
THE SHADOW MAN, by John Katzenbach (Ballantine)
THE SUMMONS, by Peter Lovesey (Mysterious/Warner)
THE ROARING BOY, by Edward Marston (St. Martin's)

Best First Novel:
PENANCE, by David Housewright (Foul Play Press)

   Nominated:
   TIGHT SHOT by Kevin Allman (St. Martin's)
   MURDER IN SCORPIO by Martha C. Lawrence (St. Martin's)
   THE HARRY CHRONICLES by Allan Pedrazas (St. Martin's)
   FIXED IN HIS FOLLY by David J. Walker (St. Martin's)

Best Paperback Original:
TARNISHED BLUE by William Heffernan (Onyx)

    Nominated:
    DEAL BREAKER by Harlan Coben (Dell)
    HIGH DESERT MALICE by Kirk Mitchell (Avon)
    CHARGED WITH GUILT by Gloria White (Dell)
    HARD FROST by R. D. Wingfield (Bantam)

Best Fact Crime:
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE, by Pete Earley (Bantam Books)

    Nominated:
    MINDHUNTER by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker (Scribner)
    BORN TO KILL by T. J. English (Wm. Morrow)
    UNFINISHED MURDER by James Neff (Pocket)
    BY TWO AND TWO by Jim Schutze (Wm. Morrow)

Best Critical or Biographical Work:
SAVAGE ART: A BIOGRAPHY OF JIM THOMPSON, by Robert Polito (Knopf)

    Nominated:
    JOHN DICKSON CARR: THE MAN WHO EXPLAINED MIRACLES by Douglas G. Greene (Otto Penzler Books)
    THE LIFE OF GRAHAM GREENE VOLUME II: 1939-1955 by Norman Sherry (Viking)
    THE CADFAEL COMPANION: THE WORLD OF BROTHER CADFAEL by Robin Whiteman (Mysterious/Warner)

Best Short Story: "The Judge's Boy", by Jean B. Cooper (In: Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, August 1995)

Nominated:
"Rule of Law" by K. K. Beck (Malice Domestic, Pocket Books)
"Death In a Small Town" by Larry Beinhart (New Mystery, Spring '95)
"When Your Breath Freezes" by Kathleen Dougherty (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Sept. '95)
"A Plain and Honest Death" by Bill Pomidor (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Sept. '95)

Best Young Adult:
PROPHECY ROCK by Rob MacGregor (Simon & Schuster)

    Nominated:
    SPYING ON MISS MULLER by Eve Bunting (Clarion Books)
    IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT by Robert Cormier (Delacorte Press)
    ANGEL’S GATE by Gary Crew (Simon & Schuster)
    SPIRIT SEEKER by Joan Lowery Nixon (Delacorte Press)

Best Juvenile:
LOOKING FOR JAMIE BRIDGER, by Nancy Springer (Dial)

    Nominated:
    THE 13TH FLOOR by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)
    RUNNING OUT OF TIME by Margaret Peterson Haddix (Simon & Schuster)
    MARVELOUS MARVIN AND THE PIONEER GHOST by Bonnie Pryor (Morrow)
    THE BONES IN THE CLIFF by James Stevenson (Greenwillow)


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