HAMMETT PRIZE  FOR  BEST WORK IN CRIME WRITING 1992-2002

The North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers, established in 1987, has presented the North American Hammett Prize annually since 1992 for the best work (fiction or nonfiction) of literary excellence in crime writing by a U.S. or Canadian author. The winning book does not have to be hardboiled or a detective novel. [Humphrey Bogart on the trail of The Maltese Falcon looks wisfully at the book's author, Dashiell Hammett.]

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2002	Alan Furst	Kingdom of Shadows
2001	Margaret Atwood	Blind Assasin
2000	Martin Cruz Smith	Havana Boy
1999	William Hoffman	Tidewater Blood
1998	William Deverell	Trial of Passion
1997	Martin Cruz Smith	Rose
1996	Mary Willis Walker	Under the Beetle's Cellar
1995	James Lee Burke	Dixie City Jam
1994	James Crumley	Mexocan Tree Duck
1993	Alice Hoffman	Turtle Moon
1992	Elmore Leonard	Maximum Bob

 

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