The 2012 Edgar Award Nominations

Each year the Mystery Writers of America hand out the Edgar Allan Poe Awards (commonly called The Edgars) for the best in mystery published in the previous year.

The nominations for the best mysteries published or produced in 2011 were recently announced.

The Edgars will be awarded at the 66th Gala Banquet on April 26, 2012.

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Best Novel

• The Ranger by Ace Atkins

 

• Gone by Mo Hayder

 

• The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino; translated by Alexander O. Smith, with Elye J. Alexander

 

• 1222: A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel by Anne Holt; translated by Marlaine Delargy

 

• Field Gray: A Bernie Gunther Novel by Philip Kerr

 

Best First Novel by an American Author

• Red on Red: A Novel by Edward Conlon

 

• Last to Fold: A Novel by David L. Duffy

 

• All Cry Chaos by Leonard J. Rosen

 

• Bent Road by Lori Roy

 

• Purgatory Chasm: A Mystery by Steve Ulfelder

 

Best Paperback Original

• The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett

 

• The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle

 

• The Dog Sox by Russell Hill

 

• Death of the Mantis: A Detective Kubu Mystery by Michael Stanley

 

• Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis

 

Best Short Story

• “Marley’s Revolution” by John C. Boland in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine

 

• “Tomorrow’s Dead” by David Dean in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

 

• “The Adakian Eagle” by Bradley Denton in Down These Strange Streets edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

 

• “Lord John and the Plague of Zombies” by Diana Gabaldon in Down These Strange Streets edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

 

• “The Case of Death and Honey” by Neil Gaiman in A Study in Sherlock: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger

 

• “The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train” by Peter Turnbull in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

 

Best Fact Crime

• The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins

 

• The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge by T. J. English

 

• Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard

 

• Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender by Steve Miller

 

• The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter by Mark Seal

 

Best Critical/Biographical

• The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of our Time by Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer and John-Henri Holmberg

 

• Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making; More Stories and Secrets From Her Notebooks by Michael Dirda

 

• On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling by Justin Gifford

 

• Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film by Philippa Gates

 

• Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds and Marnie by Melissa Schaub

 

Best Juvenile

• Horton Halfpott, Or, The Fiendish Mystery of Smugwick Manor, Or, The Loosening of M’Lady Luggertuck’s Corset by Tom Angleberger

 

• It Happened on a Train (Brixton Brothers, Book #3) by Mac Barnett

 

• Vanished by Sheela Chari

 

• Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby

 

• The Wizard of Dark Street by Shawn Thomas Odyssey

 

Best Young Adult

• Shelter: A Mickey Bolitar Novel by Harlan Coben

 

• The Name of the Star (Shades of London #1) by Maureen Johnson

 

• The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall

 

• The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines

 

• Kill You Last by Todd Strasser

 

Best Television Episode Teleplay

• “Innocence” – Blue Bloods, Teleplay by Siobhan Byrne O’Connor

 

• “The Life Inside” – Justified, Teleplay by Benjamin Cavell

 

• “Part 1” – Whitechapel, Teleplay by Ben Court and Caroline Ip

 

• “Pilot” – Homeland, Teleplay by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon and Gideon Raff

 

• “Mask” – Law and Order: SVU, Teleplay by Speed Weed

 

Best Play

• “Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club” by Jeffrey Hatcher (Arizona Theatre Company, Phoenix, AZ)

 

• “The Game’s Afoot”by Ken Ludwig (Cleveland Playhouse, Cleveland, OH)

 

The Simon and Schuster — Mary Higgins Clark Award

(Presented at MWA’s Agents and Editors Party on Wednesday, April 25, 2012)

• Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton

 

• Come and Find Me: A Novel of Suspense by Hallie Ephron

 

• Death on Tour by Janice Hamrick

 

• Learning to Swim: A Novel by Sara J. Henry

 

• Murder Most Persuasive: A Mystery by Tracy Kiely

 

The Robert L Fish Memorial Award

• “A Good Man of Business” by David Ingram in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

 

Grand Master

Martha Grimes

Raven Awards

M is For Mystery, San Mateo, CA
and
Meritorious Mysteries, Molly Weston

The Ellery Queen Award

Joe Meyers, Connecticut Post/Hearst Media News Group