Awards and Recognition

2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 |
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1988 | 1987 | 1986 | 1985 | 1984 | 1983 | 1982 | 1981 | 1980 | 1972 | 1971 | 1960

Winners are indicated in red.

2022

Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence:
“The Man Who Went Down Under” by Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson (7-8/22)

Derringer:
Short: “My Two-Legs” by Melissa Yi (9-10/22)
Long: “The Donovan Gang” by John M. Floyd (9-10/22)
Novelette: “The Refusal Camp” by James Benn (9-10/22)

Edgar: 
“Red Flag” by Gregory Fallis (3-4/22)
“Backstory” by Charles John Harper (1-2/22)
“Locked-In” by William Burton McCormick (1-2/22)

Macavity:
“My Two-Legs” by Melissa Yi (9-10/22)

Shamus:
“Bad Actor” by Elliot Sweeney (11-12/22)

2021

Agatha:
“A Family Matter” by Barb Goffman (1-2/21)

Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence:
Short Story: “Dead Man’s Hand” by Melissa Yi (3-4/21)

Edgar:
“Blindsided” by Michael  Bracken and James A. Hearn (9-10/21)
“The Road to Hana” by R. T. Lawton (5-6/21)

Macavity:
“The Road to Hana” by R. T. Lawton (5-6/21)

Shamus:
“Oro de Tontos” by Tom Larsen (11-12/21)

2020

Agatha:
“The Boy Detective & the Summer of ’74” by Art Taylor (1-2/20)

Anthony:
“The Boy Detective & the Summer of ’74” by Art Taylor (1-2/20)

Derringer:
Long Story: “Lord, Spare the Bottom Feeders” by Robert Mangeot (3-4/20)
Long Story: “Etta at the End of the World” by Joseph S. Walker (5-6/20)
Novelette: “The Question of the Befuddled Judge” by Jeff Cohen (5-6/20)
Novelette: “The Boy Detective and the Summer of ’74” by Art Taylor (1-2/20)

Edgar:
“Etta at the End of the World” by Joseph S. Walker (5-6/20)

Macavity:
“The Boy Detective & the Summer of ’74” by Art Taylor (1-2/20)

Shamus:
“A Dreamboat Gambol” by O’Neil De Noux (11-12/20)

2019

Ellis:
“The Dead Man’s Dog” by Zandra Renwick (1-2/19)

2018

The Ellery Queen Award:
Linda Landrigan (editor of AHMM) won

Agatha:
“All God’s Sparrows” by Leslie Budewitz (5-6/18)
“The Case of the Vanishing Professor” by Tara Laskowski (5-6/18)

Derringer:
Short Story: The Crucial Game by Janice Law (1-2/18)

Macavity:
All God’s Sparrows by Leslie Budewitz (5-6/18)

Shamus:
Fear of the Secular by Mitch Alderman (11-12/18)

Thriller:
10,432 Serial Killers (In Hell) by Emily Devenport (5-6/18)

2017

Agatha:
The Night They Burned Ms. Dixie’s Place by Debra H. Goldstein (5-6/17)

Anthony:
The Night They Burned Ms. Dixie’s Place by Debra H. Goldstein (5-6/17)

Edgar:
Chin Yong-Yun Stays at Home by S. J. Rozan (1-2/17)

Ellis:
Lou Allin Memorial Award for Best Novella: “How Lon Pruitt Was Found Murdered in an Open Field with No Footprints Around” by Mike Culpepper (9-10/17)
Lou Allin Memorial Award for Best Novella: “Money Maker” by Jas R. Petrin (5-6/17)

Shamus:
“Random Nature” by Brendan DuBois (1-2/17)

2016

Agatha:
The Last Blue Glass by B.K. Stevens (4/16)

Anthony:
The Last Blue Glass by B.K. Stevens (4/16)

Derringer:
Short Story: Beks and the Second Note by Bruce Arthurs (12/16)
Long Story: The Cumberland Package by Robert Mangeot (5/16)
Novella: The Chemistry of Heroes by Catherine Dilts (5/16)
Novella: Inquiry and Assistance by Terrie Farley Moran (1-2/16)
Novella: The Last Blue Glass by B.K. Stevens (4/16)

Shamus:
A Battlefield Reunion by Brendan DuBois (6/16)

2015

Agatha:
A Year Without Santa Claus? by Barb Goffman (1/15)
A Joy Forever by B.K. Stevens (3/15)

Shamus:
The Runaway Girl from Portland, Oregon by C.B. Forrest (10/15)
The Sleep of Death by David Edgerley Gates (12/15)
The Continental Opposite by Evan Lewis (5/15)

Derringer:
Long Story: Shooting at Firemen by Robert Lopresti (7-8/15)
Long Story: The Man in the Dick Tracy Hat by Elizabeth Zelvin (6/15)

Macavity:
A Year Without Santa Claus? by Barb Goffman (1-2/15)
A Joy Forever by B. K. Stevens (3/15)

2014

Anthony:
Of Dogs and Deceit by John Shepphird (11/14)

Ellis:
A Knock on the Door by Jas. R. Petrin (4/14)

2013

Derringer:
Long Story: Bloody Signorina by Joseph D’Agnese (9/13)
Novella: For Love’s Sake by O’Neil De Noux (7-8/13)
Novella: The Antiquary’s Wife by William Burton McCormick (5/13)
Novella: Last Night in Cannes by James L. Ross (11/13)

Ellis:
Under Cap Ste. Clare by Jas. R. Petrin (10/13)

2012

Agatha:
Thea’s First Husband by B.K. Stevens (6/12)

Shamus:
O’Nelligan and the Lost Fates by Michael Nethercott (3/12)
Ghost Negligence by John Shepphird (7-8/12)

Derringer:
Flash Story: The Cable Job by Randy DeWitt (9/12)
Long Story: The Pot Hunters by David Hagerty (6/12)
Novella: The Sunny South by Chris Muessig (3/12)

Ellis:
Mad Dog by Jas. R. Petrin (10/12)

Thriller:
The Devil To Pay by David Edgerley Gates (4/12)

Macavity:
Thea’s First Husband by B. K. Stevens (6/12)

2011

Edgar: 
Marley’s Revolution by John C. Boland (6/11)

Shamus:
Dancer in a Storm by L.A. Wilson, Jr. (1-2/11)

Derringer:
Long Story: Blue Amber by William Burton McCormick (6/11)
Novella: The Gun Also Rises by Jeffrey Cohen (1-2/11)

Ellis:
A New Pair of Pants by Jas. R. Petrin (9/11)

Barry:
Thicker Than Blood by Doug Allyn (9/11)
The Gun Also Rises by Jeffrey Cohen (1-2/11)
Purge by Eric Rutter (12/11)

2010

Edgar:
Monsieur Alice Is Absent by Stephen Ross (10/10)

Shamus:
The God of Right and Wrong by Stephen Gore (1-2/10)
The Lamb Was Sure to Go by Gar Anthony Haywood (11/10)

Derringer:
Long Story: The Little Nogai Boy by R.T. Lawton (9/10)
Long Story: Interpretation of Murder by B.K. Stevens (12/10)
Novella: Deserters by Chris Muessig (3/10)

Ellis:
In It up to My Neck by Jas. R. Petrin (3/10)

Barry:
When the Apricots Bloom by Ellen Larson (7-8/10)
Requiem for Antlers by Mitch Alderman (1-2/10)

2009

Edgar:
Digby, Attorney at Law by Jim Fusilli (5/09)

Fish:
A Dreadful Day by Dan Warthman (1-2/09)

Shamus:
Deadline Edition by S.L. Franklin (4/09)

Derringer:
Long Story: Regarding Certain Occurrences in a Cottage at the Garden of Allah by Robert S. Levinson (11/09)
Novella: Adjuncts Anonymous by B.K. Stevens (6/09)

Ellis:
Nothing Is Easy by Jas. R. Petrin (1-2/09)

Macavity:
Digby, Attorney at Law by Jim Fusilli (5/09)

Barry:
Real Men Die by John H. Dirckx (9/09)
The High House Writer by Brendan DuBois (7-8/09)

2008

Edgar:
Skin and Bones by David Edgerley Gates (10/08)

Agatha:
Killing Time by Jane Cleland (11/08)

Anthony:
Killing Time by Jane Cleland (11/08)

Shamus:
Family Values by Mitch Alderman (6/08)
Discovery by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (11/08)
Panic on Portage Path by Dick Stodghill (1-2/08)

Derringer:
Novella: Haven’t Seen You Since the Funeral by Ernest B. and Alice A. Brown (12/08)
Long Story: The Quick Brown Fox by Robert S. Levinson

Barry:
A Killing in Midtown by G. Miki Hayden (1-2/08)

Poirot Award:
Awarded to Janet Hutchings, editor of EQMM, and Linda Landrigan, editor of AHMM, by Malice Domestic, for contributions to the mystery genre.

2007

Shamus:
Trust Me by Loren D. Estleman (6/07)

Derringer:
Short Story: Brimstone P.I. by Beverle Graves Myers (6/07)
Novella: The Bookworm’s Demise by Beverle Graves Myers (12/07)
Novella: Wasting Assets by Mike Wiecek (9/07)

Macavity:
Brimstone P.I. by Beverle Graves Myers (6/07)

Barry:
Murder: A User’s Guide by Neil Schofield (7-8/07)

2006

Agatha:
Sleeping with the Plush by Toni L.P. Kelner (5/06)

Anthony:
Sleeping with the Plush by Toni L.P. Kelner (5/06)
After the Fall by Elaine Viets (1-2/06)

Shamus:
Sudden Stop by Mitch Alderman (11/06)
The Heart Has Reasons by O’Neil De Noux (9/06)
Square One by Loren D. Estleman (11/06)

Derringer:
Long Story: Shadow People by Rex Burns (6/06)
Long Story: Shanks on the Prowl by Robert Lopresti (5/06)
Novella: The Valley of Angustias by Steven Torres (10/06)

2005

Shamus:
Two Birds with One Stone by Jeremiah Healy (1-2/05)
The Big Road by Steve Hockensmith (5/05)
Death in Ueno by Michael Wiecek (3/05)

Macavity:
The Big Road by Steve Hockensmith (5/05)

Barry:
The Big Road by Steve Hockensmith (5/05)
The Method in Her Madness by Tom Savage (6/05)

2004

Anthony:
Voodoo by Rhys Bowen (11/04)

Shamus:
Burnt Wood by Mitch Alderman (7/04)
Trumpeter Swan by John F. Dobbyn (2/04)
Dog on Fire by Gregory S. Fallis (5/04)
Tricks by Steve Hockensmith (8/04)

Derringer:
Long Story: Brethren of the Sea by Joan Druett (11/04)
Novella: Secondhand Heart by Doug Allyn (1-2/04)
Novella: The Franklin Fiasco by Beverle Graves Myers (9/04)

Spur:
A Trail on the Desert by David Braly (6/04)

2003

Edgar:
Aces & Eights by David Edgerley Gates (12/03)

Shamus:
The Rock in the Orange Grove by Mitch Alderman (6/03)

Derringer:
Short Story: Nailbiter by Robert Lopresti (9/03)
Long Story: Big Winner by Terry Black (11/03)
Novella: Amazing Grace by Harriet Rzeltelny (2/03)

Macavity:
Texas Two-Step by Diana Deverell (2/03)

Barry:
Always Another War by Brendan DuBois (7-8/03)

2002

Derringer:
Long Story: Medicine Water by David Edgerley Gates (9/02)
Long Story: Painter of the Seven-Eyed Beast by Catherine Mambretti (11/02)

Macavity:
Boot Scoot by Diana Deverell (10/02)
An Empire’s Reach by Brendan DuBois (11/02)

Herodotus:
Beyond the Lost Man Mountains by Anne Weston (7-8/02)

The Ellery Queen Award:
Won posthumously by Cathleen Jordan, Editor in Chief, AHMM, 1981-2002,
and by Janet Hutchings, Editor in Chief, EQMM

2001

Edgar:
The Abbey Ghosts by Jan Burke (1/01)

Shamus:
Rough Justice by Ceri Jordan (7-8/01)

Derringer:
Short Story: Smoky Didn’t Send Me by Charles Cutter (11/01)
Short Story: The Last Letter by Mike Wiecek (01/01)

Macavity:
The Abbey Ghosts by Jan Burke (1/01)

2000

Fish:
The Witch and the Relic Thief by M. J. Jones (10/00)

Shamus:
The Good Daughter by Mike Wiecek (12/00)

Derringer:
Short Story: Erie’s Last Day by Steve Hockensmith (5/00)

1999

Fish:
Cro-Magnon, P.I. by Mike Reiss (7-8/99)

Shamus:
Akitada’s First Case by I.J. Parker (7-8/99)
Cro-Magnon, P.I. by Mike Reiss (7-8/99)

1998

Anthony:
A Bit of a Treat by Barry Baldwin (9/98)

Shamus:
Sidewinder by David Edgerley Gates (7-8/98)
No, Thank You, John by Michelle Knowlden (3/98)
All About Heroes by Dan Sproul (12/98)

Derringer:
Novella: Death in the Dales by C.M. Chan (1/98)
Novella: Dream by Bentley Dadmun (12/98)

1997

Shamus:
Lord of Obstacles by Greg Fallis (1/97)

1995

Edgar:
Enigma by D. H. Reddall (12/95)

Fish:
The Word for Breaking August Sky by James Sarafin (7/95)

1994

Edgar:
The Dancing Bear by Doug Allyn (3/94)
The Tennis Court by Brenda Melton Burnham (7/94)

1993

Fish:
Wicked Twist by D. A. McGuire (10/93)

Shamus:
Nobody Wins by Charles Ardai (1-2/93)

1992

Shamus:
The Messenger by Jacklyn Butler (10/92)
Rest Stop by Jeremiah Healy (5/92)

1990

Fish:
Willie’s Story by Jerry F. Skarky (6/90)

Agatha:
The Wearing of Purple by Ann F. Woodward (4/90)

1989

Edgar:
The Girl and the Gator by Robert Halsted (12/89)
For Loyal Service by Stephen Wasylyk (8/89)

Fish:
Hawks by Connie Holt (6/89)

1988

Edgar:
Déjà Vu by Doug Allyn (6/88)
Flicks by Bill Crenshaw (8/88)
Bridley’s Caller by Judith O’Neill (5/88)
The Alley by Stephen Wasylyk (11/88)

Agatha:
Dutiful Son by Ralph McInerny (5/88)

Macavity:
Déjà Vu by Doug Allyn (6/88)

1987

Fish:
Roger, Mr. Whilkie by Eric M. Heideman (7/87)

Shamus:
Merely Players by Joseph Hansen (2/87)
My Brother’s Life by Rob Kantner (3/87)

1986

Edgar:
The Puddle Diver by Doug Allyn (10/86)

1985

Edgar:
Ride the Lightning by John Lutz (1/85)

Fish:
Final Rites by Doug Allyn (12/85)

Shamus:
Eight Mile and Dequindre by Loren D. Estleman (5/85)
Perfect Pitch by Rob Kantner (7/85)

1984

Edgar:
Season Pass by Chet Williamson (10/84)

Fish:
Poor Dumb Mouths by Bill Crenshaw (5/84)

1983

Shamus:
Greektown by Loren D. Estleman (8/83)
The Long Slow Dive by T. Robin Kantner (2/83)
Only One Way to Go by John Lutz (10/83)

1982

Edgar:
Tall Tommy and the Millionaire by S. S. Rafferty (9/82)

Shamus:
Dead Soldier by Loren D. Estleman (9/82)
My Little Girl by Kenneth Gavrell (5/82)
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You by John Lutz (11/82)
Cardula and the Locked Rooms by Jack Ritchie (3/82)

1981

Edgar:
Seeds of Murder by Nan Hamilton (12/81)
A Token of Appreciation by Donald Olson (6/81)

1980

Edgar:
The Choirboy by William Bankier (12/15/80)
Until You Are Dead by John Lutz (1/30/80)

1972

Edgar:
Frightened Lady by C. B. Gilford (7/72)

1971

Edgar:
My Daughter Is Dead by Pauline C. Smith (11/71)

1960

Edgar:
Summer Evil by Nora Caplan (10/60)
A Real Live Murderer by Donald Honig (10/60)