The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Mystery Novel
2004 Resurrection Men, Ian Rankin
2003 Winter and Night, S. J. Rozan
2002 Silent Joe, T. Jefferson Parker
2001 The Bottoms, Joe R. Lansdale
2000 Bones, Jan Burke
1999 Mr. White's Confession, Robert Clark
1998 Cimarron Rose, James Lee Burke
1997 The Chatham School Affair, Thomas A. Cook
1996 Come to Grief, Dick Francis
1995 The Red Scream, Mary Willis Walker
1994 The Sculptress, Minette Walters
1993 Bootlegger's Daughter, Margaret Maron
1992 A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, Lawrence Block
1991 New Orleans Mourning, Julie Smith
1990 Black Cherry Blues, James Lee Burke
1989 The Cold Red Sunrise, Stuart M. Kaminsky
1988 Old Bones, Aaron Elkins
1987 A Dark-adapted Eye, Barbara Vine
1986 The Suspect, L. R. Wright
1985 Briarpatch, Ross Thomas
1984 La Brava, Elmore Leonard
1983 Billingsgate Shoal, Rick Boyer
1982 Peregrine, William Bayer
1981 Whip Hand, Dick Francis
1980 The Rheingold Route, Arthur Mailing
1979 The Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett
1978 Catch Me: Kill Me, William H. Hallahan
1977 Promised Land, Robert B. Parker
1976 Hopscotch, Brian Garfield
1975 Peter's Pence, Jon Cleary
1974 Dance Hall of the Dead, Tony Hillerman
1973 The Lingala Code, Warren Kiefer
1972 The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
1971 The Laughing Policeman, Maj Siowall and Per Wahloo
1970 Forfeit, Dick Francis
1969 A Case of Need, Jeffrey Hudson
1968 God Save the Mark, Donald E. Westlake
1967 The King of the Rainy Country, Nicolas Freeling
1966 The Quiller Memorandum, Adam Hall
1965 The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, John Le Carré
1964 The Light of Day, Eric Ambler
1963 Death and the Joyful Woman, Ellis Peters
1962 Gideon's Fire, J.J. Marric
1961 The Progress of a Crime, Julian Symons
1960 The Hours Before Dawn, Celia Fremlin
1959 The Eighth Circle, Stanley Ellin
1958 Room to Swing, Ed Lacy
1957 A Dream of Poison, Charlotte Armstrong
1956 Beast in View, Margaret Miller
1955 The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
1954 Beat Not the Bones, Charlotte Jay