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1993 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy |
Jeffrey Meyers |
Scribners |
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1992
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Best Critical / Biographical Work
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Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance
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Kenneth Silverman
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HarperCollins
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1992 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Agatha Christie: Murder in Four Acts |
Peter Haining |
Virgin Books |
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1992 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Jim Thompson: Sleep with the Devil |
Michael J. McCauley |
Mysterious Press |
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1992 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Out of the Woodpile: Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction |
Frankie E. Bailey |
Greenwood Press |
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1992 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Talking Mysteries: A Conversation with Tony Hillerman |
Ernie Bulow, Tony Hillerman |
University of New Mexico Press |
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1991
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Best Critical / Biographical Work
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Trouble is Their Business: Private Eyes in Fiction, Film, and Television, 1927-1988
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John Conquest
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Garland
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1991 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Eric Ambler |
Peter Lewis |
Continuum |
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1991 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Hillary Waugh's Guide to Mysteries and Mystery Writing |
Hillary Waugh |
Writer's Digest Books |
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1991 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
John Dickinson Carr: A Critical Study |
S.T. Joshi |
Bowling Green Popular Press |
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1991 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers |
Catherine Kenney |
Kent State University Press |
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1990
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Best Critical / Biographical Work
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The Life of Graham Greene
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Norman Sherry
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Viking
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Volume: Volume I: 1904-1939
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1990 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Film Noir: Reflections in a Dark Mirror |
Bruce Crowther |
Continuum |
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1990 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Murder on the Air |
Ric Meyers |
Mysterious Press |
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1990 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Mysterium and Mystery: The Clerical Crime Novel |
William David Spencer |
UMI Research Press |
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1990 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
The Perfect Murder: A Study in Detection |
David Lehman |
Free Press/Macmillan |
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1989
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Best Critical / Biographical Work
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Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die
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Francis M. Nevins, Jr.
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Mysterious Press
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1989 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Silk Stalkings: When Women Write of Murder |
Victoria Nichols, Susan Thompson |
Black Lizard |
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1989 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Sisters in Crime: Feminism and the Crime Novel |
Maureen T. Reddy |
Continuum |
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1989 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
The Dime Detectives |
Ron Goulart |
Mysterious Press |
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1988
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Best Critical / Biographical Work
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Introduction to the Detective Story
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Leroy Lad Panek
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Popular Press
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1988 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Campion's Career: A Study of the Novels of Margery Allingham |
B. A. Pike |
Bowling Green Popular Press |
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1988 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Corridors of Deceit, The World of John le Carre |
Peter Wolfe |
Popular Library |
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1988 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Crime and Mystery, The 100 Best Books |
H.R.F. Keating |
Carroll & Graf |
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1987
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Best Critical / Biographical Work
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Here Lies: An Autobiography
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Eric Ambler
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Farrar, Straus, Giroux
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1987 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
1001 Midnights: The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery Fiction |
Marcia Muller, Bill Pronzini |
Arbor House |
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1987 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
13 Mistresses of Murder |
Elaine Budd |
Ungar |
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1987 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
The Mystery Lover's Companion |
Art Bourgeau |
Crown |
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1987 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
The Secret of the Stratemeyer Syndicate: Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys and the Million Dollar Fiction Factory |
Carol Billman |
Ungar |
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1986
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Best Critical / Biographical Work
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John le Carre
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Peter Lewis
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Ungar
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1986 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Agatha Christie |
Janet Morgan |
Knopf |
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1986 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Private Eyes: 101 Knights, A Survey of American Fiction |
Robert A. Baker, Michael T. Nietzel |
Bowling Green Popular Press |
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1986 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
The American Private Eye: The Image in Fiction |
David Geherin |
Ungar |
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1986 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
The Lord Peter Wimsey Companion |
Stephan P. Clarke |
Mysterious Press |
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1985
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Best Critical / Biographical Work
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Novel Verdicts: A Guide to Courtroom Fiction
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Jon L. Breen
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Scarecrow Press
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1985 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Inward Journey: Ross MacDonald |
Ralph B. Sipper |
Cordelia Editions |
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1985 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
One Lonely Knight: Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer |
Max Allan Collins, James L. Traylor |
Bowling Green Popular Press |
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1985 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Ross Macdonald |
Matthew J. Bruccoli |
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
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1985 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
The James Bond Bedside Companion |
Raymond Benson |
Dodd, Mead |
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1984
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Best Critical / Biographical Work
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The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock
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Donald Spoto
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Little, Brown
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1984 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Dashiell Hammett |
Diane Johnson |
Random House |
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1984 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
The Mystery of Georges Simenon |
Fenton Bresler |
Beaufort |
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1984 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
The Poetics of Murder |
Glen W. Most, William W. Stowe |
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
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1983
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Best Critical / Biographical Work
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Cain
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Roy Hoopes
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Holt, Rinehart & Winston
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1983 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Gun in Cheek |
Bill Pronzini |
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan |
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1983 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Modus Operandi |
Robin W. Winks |
David R. Godine |
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1983 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
The Police Procedural |
George M. Dove |
Bowling Green Popular Press |
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1982
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Best Critical / Biographical Work
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What About Murder?
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Jon L. Breen
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Scarecrow Press
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1982 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler |
Frank MacShane |
Columbia University Press |
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1982 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
The Annotated Tales of Edgar Allan Poe |
Stephen Peithman |
Doubleday |
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1982 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
The Whodunit |
Stefano Benvenuti, Gianni Rizzoni |
Macmillan |
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1982 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
TV Detectives |
Richard Meyers |
A.S. Barnes & Co. |
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1981
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Best Critical / Biographical Work
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Twentiety Century Crime and Mystery Writers
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John Reilly
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St. Martin's Press
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1981 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie |
Robert Barnard |
Dodd, Mead |
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1981 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Watteau's Shepherds: The Detective Novel in Britain 1914-1940 |
Leroy Lad Panek |
Bowling Green Popular Press |
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1980
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Best Critical / Biographical Work
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Dorothy L. Sayers, A Literary Biography
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Ralph E. Hone
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Kent State University Press
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1980 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
As Her Whimsey Took Her |
Margaret Hannay |
Kent State University Press |
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1980 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Sherlock Holmes, The Man and His World |
H.R.F. Keating |
Scribners |
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1980 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
The Secret of Grown-Ups |
Vera Caspary |
McGraw-Hill |
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1979
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Best Critical / Biographical Work
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The Mystery of Agatha Christie
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Gwen Robins
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Doubleday
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1979 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case of the Real Perry Mason |
Dorothy B. Hughes |
Wm. Morrow |
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1979 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
The Detective in Hollywood |
John Tuska |
Doubleday |
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1979 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
The Tell-Tale Heart: The Life and Work of Edgar Allan Poe |
Julian Symons |
Harper & Row |
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1978
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Best Critical / Biographical Work
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Rex Stout
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John McAleer
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Little, Brown
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1978 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
An Autobiography |
Agatha Christie |
Dodd, Mead |
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1978 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
The Encyclopedia Sherlockiana |
Jack Tracy |
Doubleday |
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1977
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Best Critical / Biographical Work
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Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection
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Marvin Lachman, Otto Penzler, Charles Shibuk, Chris Steinbrunner
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McGraw-Hill
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1977 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
The Agatha Christie Mystery |
Derrick Murdoch |
Pagurian Press |
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1977 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
The Dangerous Edge |
Gavin Lambert |
Grossman |
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1977 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
The Life of Raymond Chandler |
Frank McShane |
Dutton |
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1977 |
Best Critical / Biographical Work |
The Mystery Story |
John Ball |
University of California at San Diego Publishers |
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