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This year's Edgar Awards ceremony, presented by the Mystery Writers of America, took place in New York City on May 1, 2003. The winners included:
Best Novel
WINTER AND NIGHT by S.J. Rozan (St. Martin's/Minotaur)
Best First Novel by an American Author
THE BLUE EDGE OF MIDNIGHT by Jonathan King (Dutton)
Best Paperback Original
OUT OF SIGHT by T.J. MacGregor (Pinnacle)
Best Critical/Biographical
THE MAMMOTH ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN CRIME FICTION by Mike Ashley (Carroll & Graf)
Best Fact Crime
FIRE LOVER by Joseph Wambaugh (Morrow)
Best Young Adult
THE WESSEX PAPERS, Vols. 1-3 by Daniel Parker (Avon)
Best Juvenile
HARRIET SPIES AGAIN by Helen Ericson (Random/Delacorte)
The Raven Award for booksellers
Otto Penzler, owner of Mysterious Bookshop, New York, NY.
The Poe Museum in Richmond, Va.
Ed and Pat Thomas, owners of Book Carnival Bookstore, Orange, CA.
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More information about the Edgar Awards and Mystery Writers of America can be found at http://www.mysterywriters.org.
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The 2003 Edgar Award Nominees
Mystery Writers of America has announced the nominees for the 2003 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. The awards focus on works published or produced in 2002 in a number of categories. Award-winners will be announced on May 1, 2003.
BEST NOVEL
SAVANNAH BLUES by Mary Kay Andrews (HarperCollins)
JOLIE BLON'S BOUNCE by James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster)
CITY OF BONES by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
WINTER AND NIGHT by S.J. Rozan (St. Martin's Minotaur)
NO GOOD DEED by Manda Scott (Bantam)
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
SOUTHERN LATITUDES by Stephen J. Clark (Penguin Putnam)
THE BLUE EDGE OF MIDNIGHT by Jonathon King (Dutton)
HIGH WIRE by Kam Majd (Random House)
BUCK FEVER by Ben Rehder (St. Martin's Minotaur)
OPEN AND SHUT by David Rosenfelt (Mysterious Press)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
BLACK JACK POINT by Jeff Abbott (NAL-Onyx)
THE NIGHT WATCHER by John Lutz (Pinnacle)
OUT OF SIGHT by T.J. MacGregor (Pinnacle)
TRAUMA by Graham Masterton (NAL-Signet)
PRISON BLUES by Anna Salter (Pocket Books)
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
THE MAMMOTH ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN CRIME FICTION by Mike Ashley (Carroll & Graf)
THE CLASSIC ERA OF CRIME FICTION by Peter Haining (Chicago Review Press)
CRIME FILMS by Thomas Leitch (Cambridge University Press)
THE ART OF NOIR by Eddie Muller (Overlook Press)
BEST FACT CRIME
BLOOD & INK: An International Guide to Fact-Based Crime Literature by Albert Borowitz (Kent State University Press
TAKEDOWN: The Fall of the Last Mafia Empire by Rick Cowan and Douglas Century (Putnam)
DEATH AT THE PRIORY: Sex, Love and Murder in Victorian England by James Ruddick (Grove/Atlantic)
THE COUNT AND THE CONFESSION by John Taylor (Random House)
FIRE LOVER by Joseph Wambaugh (Morrow)
BEST SHORT STORY
"The Murder Ballads" by Doug Allyn (EQMM/March)
"To Live and Die in Midland, Texas" by Clark Howard (EQMM/Sept-October)
"Rumpole and the Primrose Path" by John Mortimer (The Strand)
"Angel of Wrath" by Joyce Carol Oates (EQMM/June)
"Mexican Gatsby" by Raymond Steiber (EQMM/March)
BEST YOUNG ADULT
CHEATING LESSONS by Nan Willard Cappo (Atheneum)
SAFE HOUSE by Jenny Carroll (Simon & Schuster)
HIT AND RUN by Mark Delaney (Peachtree)
THE NIGHT THE PENNINGTONS VANISHED by Marianna Heusler (Larcom Press)
THE WESSEX PAPERS, Vols. 1-3 by Daniel Parker (Avon)
BEST JUVENILE
HARRIET SPIES AGAIN by Helen Ericson (Random House/Delacorte Press)
O'DWYER & GRADY: Starring in Acting Innocent by Eileen Heyes (Simon & Schuster/Alladin Paperbacks)
THE CASE OF THE GREEDY GRANNY: Jake Gander, Storyville Detective by George McClements (Hyperion)
RIDING THE FUME by Patricia Curtis Pfitsch (Simon & Schuster BFYR)
SAMMY KEYES AND THE SEARCH FOR THE SNAKE EYE by Wendelin Van Draanen (Random House/Knopf Books for Young Readers)
BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
Monk: "Mr. Monk Takes A Vacation", Teleplay by Hy Conrad
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: "Waste", Teleplay by Dawn DeNoon and Lisa Marie Petersen
Law & Order: Criminal Intent: "Tuxedo Hill", Teleplay by Rene Balcer
The Wire: "The Target", Teleplay by David Simon. Story by David Simon and Ed Burns
NYPD Blue: "Ho Down", Teleplay by Nicholas Wootton and Bill Clark
BEST MOTION PICTURE SCREENPLAY
Gangs of New York Screenplay by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan; Story by Jay Cocks (Miramax Films)
Chicago by Bill Condon (Miramax Films)
Catch Me If You Can by Jeff Nathanson (Dreamworks Pictures)
Insomnia by Hilary Seitz (Warner Bros.)
Road to Perdition Screenplay by David Self, based on the Graphic Novel by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner (Dreamworks Pictures)
BEST PLAY
EASY by Philip DePoy (Horizon Theatre)
THE WEST END HORROR by Anthony Dodge & Marcia Milgrom Dodge (Bay Street Theatre)
THE CHRONOLOGY PROTECTION CASE by Mark Shanahan, Paul Levinson and Jay Kensinger, from the story by Paul Levinson (Stage Shadows Productions, Inc.)
MONSTER by Derek Nguyen (East-West Players)
THE SIMON & SCHUSTER-MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY Absolute Certainty by Rose Connors (Scribner)
THE STONE FOREST by Karen Harper (MIRA Books)
THE TRUTH HURTS by Nancy Pickard (Simon & Schuster/Atria Books)
THE BAD WITNESS by Laura Van Wormer (MIRA Books)
ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD
Mike Doogan
WAR CAN BE MURDER (Mysterious North Anthology)
GRAND MASTER
Ira Levin
RAVEN
Otto Penzler, owner of Mysterious Bookshop, New York
Poe Museum, Richmond Virginia
Ed & Pat Thomas, owners of Book Carnival Bookstore
ELLERY QUEEN AWARD
Ed Gorman
SPECIAL EDGAR AWARD
Dick Wolf, creator of Law & Order
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