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This year's Edgar Awards ceremony, presented by the Mystery Writers of America, took place at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City on April 28, 2005.
BEST NOVEL
CALIFORNIA GIRL by T. Jefferson Parker (William Morrow)
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN by Don Lee (W.W. Norton & Company)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
THE CONFESSION by Domenic Stansberry (Hard Case Crime)
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
THE NEW ANNOTATED SHERLOCK HOLMES: The Complete Short Stories edited by Leslie S. Klinger (W.W. Norton & Company)
BEST FACT CRIME
CONVICTION: SOLVING THE MOXLEY MURDER: A Reporter and a Detective's Twenty-Year Search for Justice by Leonard Levitt (Regan Books)
BEST SHORT STORY
"Something About a Scar" in ANYTHING YOU SAY CAN AND WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU by Laurie Lynn Drummond (HarperCollins)
BEST YOUNG ADULT
IN DARKNESS, DEATH by Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler (Philomel Books)
BEST JUVENILE
CHASING VERMEER by Blue Balliett (Scholastic Press)
BEST PLAY
"Spatter Pattern (Or, How I Got Away With It)" by Neal Bell (Playwrights Horizons)
BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - "Want"
Teleplay by Elizabeth Benjamin. Story by René Balcer & Elizabeth Benjamin
BEST TELEVISION FEATURE OR MINI-SERIES TELEPLAY
State of Play by Paul Abbott (BBC America)
BEST MOTION PICTURE SCREENPLAY
A Very Long Engagement - Screenplay by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, based on the Novel by Sébastien Japrisot (2003 Productions)
And earlier, the announcement was made that the Mary Higgins Clark Award went to GRAVE ENDINGS by Rochelle Krich.
More information about the Edgar Awards and Mystery Writers of America can be found at http://www.mysterywriters.org.
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The 2005 Edgar Awards
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This year's Edgar Awards ceremony, presented by the Mystery Writers of America, took place at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City on April 28, 2005.
BEST NOVEL
CALIFORNIA GIRL by T. Jefferson Parker (William Morrow)
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN by Don Lee (W.W. Norton & Company)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
THE CONFESSION by Domenic Stansberry (Hard Case Crime)
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
THE NEW ANNOTATED SHERLOCK HOLMES: The Complete Short Stories edited by Leslie S. Klinger (W.W. Norton & Company)
BEST FACT CRIME
CONVICTION: SOLVING THE MOXLEY MURDER: A Reporter and a Detective's Twenty-Year Search for Justice by Leonard Levitt (Regan Books)
BEST SHORT STORY
"Something About a Scar" in ANYTHING YOU SAY CAN AND WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU by Laurie Lynn Drummond (HarperCollins)
BEST YOUNG ADULT
IN DARKNESS, DEATH by Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler (Philomel Books)
BEST JUVENILE
CHASING VERMEER by Blue Balliett (Scholastic Press)
BEST PLAY
"Spatter Pattern (Or, How I Got Away With It)" by Neal Bell (Playwrights Horizons)
BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - "Want"
Teleplay by Elizabeth Benjamin. Story by René Balcer & Elizabeth Benjamin
BEST TELEVISION FEATURE OR MINI-SERIES TELEPLAY
State of Play by Paul Abbott (BBC America)
BEST MOTION PICTURE SCREENPLAY
A Very Long Engagement - Screenplay by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, based on the Novel by Sébastien Japrisot (2003 Productions)
And earlier, the announcement was made that the Mary Higgins Clark Award went to GRAVE ENDINGS by Rochelle Krich.
More information about the Edgar Awards and Mystery Writers of America can be found at http://www.mysterywriters.org.
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The 2005 Edgar Award Nominees
Mystery Writers of America has announced the nominees for the 2005 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction, television and film published or produced in 2004. The winners will be announced April 28, 2005 at the 59th annual Edgar Awards dinner gala at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City.
BEST
NOVEL
EVAN'S GATE by Rhys Bowen (St. Martin's Minotaur)
BY A SPIDER'S THREAD by Laura Lippman (William Morrow)
REMEMBERING SARAH by Chris Mooney (Atria Books)
CALIFORNIA GIRL by T. Jefferson Parker (William Morrow)
OUT OF THE DEEP I CRY by Julia Spencer-Fleming (St. Martin's Minotaur)
BEST
FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
LITTLE GIRL LOST by Richard Aleas (Hard Case Crime)
RELATIVE DANGER by Charles Benoit (Poisoned Pen Press)
CLOUD ATLAS by Liam Callanan (Delacorte Press)
TONIGHT I SAID GOODBYE by Michael Koryta (St. Martin's Minotaur)
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN by Don Lee (W.W. Norton & Company)
BAHAMARAMA by Bob Morris (St. Martin's Minotaur)
BEST
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
THE LIBRARIAN by Larry Beinhart (Nation Books)
INTO THE WEB by Thomas H. Cook (Bantam)
DEAD MEN RISE UP NEVER by Ron Faust (Dell)
TWELVE-STEP FANDANGO by Chris Haslam (Dark Alley)
THE CONFESSION by Domenic Stansberry (Hard Case Crime)
BEST
CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
THE NEW ANNOTATED SHERLOCK HOLMES: The Complete Short Stories edited by Leslie
S. Klinger (W.W. Norton)
LATIN AMERICAN MYSTERY WRITERS: An A-to-Z Guide by Darrell B. Lockhart (Greenwood
Press)
BOOZE AND THE PRIVATE EYE: Alcohol in the Hard-Boiled Novel by Rita Elizabeth
Rippetoe (McFarland & Co.)
THE LIFE OF GRAHAM GREENE, VOL. 3: 1956-1991 by Norman Sherry (Viking Books)
BEST
FACT CRIME
READY FOR THE PEOPLE: My Most Chilling Cases as Prosecutor by Marissa N. Batt
(Arcade Publishing)
CONVICTION: SOLVING THE MOXLEY MURDER: A Reporter and a Detective's Twenty-Year
Search for Justice by Leonard Levitt (Regan Books)
FORENSICS FOR DUMMIES by D.P. Lyle, MD (Wiley Publishing - For Dummies)
ARE YOU THERE ALONE?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates by Suzanne O'Malley
(Simon & Schuster)
BALLAD OF THE WHISKEY ROBBER: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian
Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts by Julian Rubinstein
(Little, Brown)
GREEN RIVER, RUNNING RED: The Real Story of the Green River Killer -- America's
Deadliest Serial Murderer by Ann Rule (Free Press)
BEST
SHORT STORY
"Something About a Scar" in ANYTHING YOU SAY CAN AND WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU
by Laurie Lynn Drummond (HarperCollins)
"The Widow of Slane" by Terence Faherty (EQMM, March/April 2004)
"The Book Signing" in BROOKLYN NOIR by Pete Hamill (Akashic Books)
"Adventure of the Missing Detective" in SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE HIDDEN YEARS by Gary
Lovisi (St. Martin's Minotaur)
"Imitate the Sun" by Luke Sholer (EQMM, November 2004)
BEST
YOUNG ADULT
STORY TIME by Edward Bloor (Harcourt Children's Books)
IN DARKNESS, DEATH by Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler (Philomel Books)
JUDE by Kate Morgenroth (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing)
THE BOOK OF DEAD DAYS by Marcus Sedgwick (Wendy Lamb Books)
MISSING ABBY by Lee Weatherly (David Fickling Books)
BEST
JUVENILE
CHASING VERMEER by Blue Balliett (Scholastic Press)
ASSASSIN: The Lady Grace Mysteries by Patricia Finney (Delacorte Books for Young
Readers)
ABDUCTION! by Peg Kehret (Dutton Children's Books)
LOOKING FOR BOBOWICZ by Daniel Pinkwater (HarperCollins Children's Books)
THE UNSEEN by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)
BEST
PLAY
"Spatter Pattern (Or, How I Got Away With It)" by Neal Bell (Playwrights Horizons)
"Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life" by Max Allan Collins (The Art House)
"An Evening of Murder and the Like" by Edward Musto (Barrow Group Studio Theatre)
BEST
TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - "Want"
Teleplay by Elizabeth Benjamin, story by René Balcer & Elizabeth Benjamin
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - "Conscience"
Teleplay by Gerry Conway, story by René Balcer & Gerry Conway
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - "Consumed"
Teleplay by Warren Leight, story by René Balcer & Warren Leight
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - "Pas De Deux"
Teleplay by Warren Leight, story by René Balcer & Warren Leight
Monk - "Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf"
Teleplay by Hy Conrad
BEST
TELEVISION FEATURE OR MINI-SERIES TELEPLAY
State of Play by Paul Abbott (BBC America)
Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness by Peter Berry (Granada TV & WGBH Boston)
Death in Holy Orders by Robert Jones, based on the novel by P.D. James
(BBC Worldwide)
Amnesia by Chris Lang (BBC America)
"The Darkness of Light" - Wire in the Blood by Alan Whiting (Coastal Productions)
BEST
MOTION PICTURE SCREENPLAY
A Very Long Engagement - Screenplay by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, based on the
Novel by Sébastien Japrisot (2003 Productions)
The Bourne Supremacy - Screenplay by Tony Gilroy, based on the Novel by
Robert Ludlum (The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Universal Pictures, Hypnotic)
Collateral by Stuart Beattie (DreamWorks SKG)
I'm Not Scared - Screenplay by Francesca Marciano, based on the Novel by
Niccolò Ammaniti (Miramax Films)
Maria Full of Grace - Screenplay by Joshua Marston (HBO Films)
THE
SIMON & SCHUSTER-MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
PERFECT SAX by Jerrilyn Farmer (William Morrow/Avon)
THE DROWNING TREE by Carol Goodman (Ballantine Books)
SCENT OF A KILLER by Christiane Heggan (MIRA Books)
GRAVE ENDINGS by Rochelle Krich (Ballantine Books)
MURDER IN A MILL TOWN by P.B. Ryan (Berkley Prime Crime)
ROBERT
L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD
Thomas Morrissey for "Can't Catch Me" in BROOKLYN NOIR (Akashic Books)
GRAND
MASTER
Marcia Muller
ELLERY
QUEEN
Carolyn Marino, Vice President/Executive Editor, HarperCollins
RAVEN
Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theatre (founded by Steve Oney) DorothyL listserv (founded
by Diane Kovacs and Kara Robinson)
Murder by the Book, Houston, TX (Martha Farrington, Owner)
SPECIAL
EDGAR AWARD
David Chase (writer/producer - The Sopranos, The Rockford Files,
Kolchak: The Night Stalker and many other breakthrough TV shows)
Tom Fontana (writer/producer - Homicide: Life on the Street, Oz,
The Jury and many other breakthrough TV shows)
For more information about the Edgar Awards and/or Mystery Writers of America,
go to http://www.mysterywriters.org.
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