Each Spring, Mystery Writers of America present the Edgar^® Awards, widely acknowledged to be the most prestigious awards in the genre. These awards recognize the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television in the past year.

Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce the winners of the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2011. The Edgar® Awards were presented to the winners at our 66th Gala Banquet, April 26, 2012 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.

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2012 Winners

BEST NOVEL
GONE by Mo Hayder (Grove Atlantic/Atlantic Monthly Press)

BEST FIRST NOVEL
BENT ROAD by Lori Roy (Penguin Group/Dutton)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
THE COMPANY MAN by Robert Jackson Bennett (Hachette Book Group/Orbit Books)

BEST FACT CRIME
DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard (Random House/Doubleday)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
ON CONAN DOYLE: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda (Princton University Press)

BEST SHORT STORY
"The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train" from Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Peter Turnbull (Dell Magazines)

BEST JUVENILE
ICEFALL by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic Press)

BEST YOUNG ADULT
THE SILENCE OF MURDER by Dandi Daley Macall (Random House Children's Books/Knopf Books for Young Readers)

BEST PLAY
The Game's Afoot by Ken Ludwig (Cleveland Playhouse)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
"Pilot," from "Homeland," Teleplay by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff (Showtime)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD
"A Good Man of Business" from Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by David Ingram (Dell Magazines)

GRAND MASTER
Martha Grimes

RAVEN AWARDS
M is for Mystery Bookstore, San Mateo, California
Molly Weston, Meritorious Mysteries

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER - MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
LEARNING TO SWIM by Sara J. Henry (Crown Publishing Group)

Ellery Queen Award
Joe Meyers of the Connecticut Post/Hearst Media News Group

2012 Nominees

BEST NOVEL
THE RANGER by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group/G.P. Putnam's Sons)
GONE by Mo Hayder (Grove Atlantic/Atlantic Monthly Press)
THE DEVOTION OF SUSPECT X by Keigo Higashino (Minotuar Books)
1222 by Anne Holt (Simon & Schuster/Scribner)
FIELD GRAY by Philip Kerr (Penguin Group/G.P. Putnam's Sons - Marian Woods Books)
 

BEST FIRST NOVEL
RED ON RED by Edward Conlon (Tom Doherty/Forge Books)
LAST TO FOLD by David Duffy (Thomas Dunne Books)
ALL CRY CHAOS by Leonard Rosen (The Permanent Press)
BENT ROAD by Lori Roy (Penguin Group/Dutton)
PURGATORY CHASM by Steve Ulfelder (Minotaur Books/Thomas Dunne Books)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
THE COMPANY MAN by Robert Jackson Bennett (Hachette Book Group/Orbit Books)
THE FACES OF ANGELS by Lucretia Grindle (Felony & Mayhem Press)
THE DOG SOX by Russell Hill (Pleasure Boat Studio/Caravel Mystery Books)
DEATH OF THE MANTIS by Michael Stanley (HarperCollins/Harper Paperbacks)
VIENNA TWILIGHT by Frank Tallis (Random House Trade Paperbacks)

BEST FACT CRIME
THE MURDER OF THE CENTURY: THe Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Spraked Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins (Crown Publishing)
THE SAVAGE CITY: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge by T. J. English (HarperCollins/William Morrow)
DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard (Random House/Doubleday)
GIRL, WANTED: The Chase for Sarah Pender by Steve Miller (Penguin Group/Berkley)
THE MAN IN THE ROCKEFELLER SUIT: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter by Mark Seal (Penguin Group/Viking)

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 & John-Henri Holmberg (St. Martin's G
AGATHA CHRISTIE: Murder in the Making by John Curran (HarperCollins)
ON CONAN DOYLE: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda (Princton University Press)
DETECTING WOMEN: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film by Philippa Gates (SUNY Press)
SCRIPTING HITCHCOCK: Psycho, The Birds and Marnie by Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick (University of Illinois Press)

BEST SHORT STORY
"Marley's Revolution" from Alfred Hitchcock Magazine by John C. Boland (Dell Magazines)
"Tomorrow's Dead" from Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by David Dean (Dell Magazines)
"The Adakian Eagle” from Down These Strange Streets by Bradley Denton (Penguin Group/Ace Books)
"Lord John and the Plague of the Zombies" from Down These Strange Streets by Diana Gabaldon (Penguin Group/Ace Books)
"The Case of Death and Honey" from A Study in Sherlock by Neil Gaiman (Random House/Bantam Books)
"The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train" from Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Peter Turnbull (Dell Magazines)

BEST JUVENILE
HORTON HALFPOTT by Tom Angleberger (Abrams/Amulet)
IT HAPPENED ON A TRAIN by Mac Barnett (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
VANISHED by Sheela Chari (Disney Book Group/Disney Hyperion)
ICEFALL by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic Press)
THE WIZARD OF DARK STREET by Shawn Thomas Odyssey (Egmont USA)

BEST YOUNG ADULT
SHELTER by Harlan Coben (Penguin Young Readers Group)
THE NAME OF THE STAR by Maureen Johnson (Penguin Young Readers Group)
THE SILENCE OF MURDER by Dandi Daley Macall (Random House Children's Books/Knopf Books for Young Readers)
THE GIRL IS MURDER by Kathryn Miller Haines (Macmillan Children's Publishing Group/Roaring Creek Press
KILL YOU LAST by Todd Strasser (Egmont USA)

BEST PLAY
Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Clud by Jeffrey Hatcher (Arizona Theatre Company)
The Game's Afoot by Ken Ludwig (Cleveland Playhouse)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
"Innocence,” from "Blue Bloods," Teleplay by Siobhan Byrne O'Connor (CBS Productions)
"The Life Inside,” from "Justified," Teleplay by Benjamin Cavell (FX Productions and Sony Pictures Television)
"Part 1" from "White Chapel,” Teleplay by Ben Court & Caroline Ip (BBC America)
"Pilot," from "Homeland," Teleplay by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff (Showtime)
"Mask," from "Law & Order:S SVU," Teleplay by Speed Weed (Wolf Films/Universal Media Studios)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD
"A Good Man of Business" from Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by David Ingram (Dell Magazines)

GRAND MASTER
Martha Grimes

RAVEN AWARDS
M is for Mystery Bookstore, San Mateo, California
Molly Weston, Meritorious Mysteries

MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
NOW YOU SEE ME by S. J. Bolton (Minotaur Books)
COME AND FIND ME by Hallie Ephron (HarperCollins/William Morrow)
LEARNING TO SWIM by Sara J. Henry (Crown Publishing Group)
MURDER MOST PERSUASIVE by Tracy Kiely (Minotaur Books/Thomas Dunne Books)

Ellery Queen Award
Joe Meyers of the Connecticut Post/Hearst Media News Group