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FOR BEST FACT CRIME BOOK 1948-2003 |
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FOR BEST FACT CRIME BOOK 1948-2003 |
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JOSEPH WAMBAUGH
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Mystery Writers of America, presented its first Edgar Allan Poe Awards
in 1946 for works produced in 1945. Since then,
various categories have been added or discontinued. The Award for Best
Fact Crime Book was first made in 1948.
| 2003 | Joseph Wambaugh | Fire Lover |
| 2002 | Kent Walker with Mark Schone | Son of a Grifter |
| 2001 | Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill | Black Mass: The Irish Mob, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal |
| 2000 | James B. Stewart | Blind Eye |
| 1999 | Carlton Stowers | To the Last Breath |
| 1998 | Richard Firstman and
Jamie Talan |
The Death of Innocents |
| 1997 | Darcy O'Brien | Power to Hurt |
| 1996 | Pete Earley | Circumstantial Evidence |
| 1995 | Joe Domanick | To Protect and Serve |
| 1994 | Bella Stumbo | Until the Twelfth of Never |
| 1993 | Harry Farrell | Swift Justice |
| 1992 | David Simon | Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets |
| 1991 | Peter Maas | In a Child's Name |
| 1990 | Jack Olsen | Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell |
| 1989 | Harry N. MacLean | In Broad Daylight |
| 1988 | Richard Hammer | CBS Murders |
| 1987 | Carlton Stowers | Careless Whispers: The True Story of a Triple Murder and the Determined Lawman Who Wouldn't Give Up |
| 1986 | Natalie Robins and
Steven Aronson |
Savage Grace |
| 1985 | Mike Weiss | Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings |
| 1984 | Shana Alexander | Very Much a Lady |
| 1983 | Richard Hammer | The Vatican Connection |
| 1982 | Robert W. Greene | The Sting Man |
| 1981 | Fred Harwell | A True Deliverance |
| 1980 | Robert Lindsey | The Falcon and the Snowman |
| 1979 | Vincent Bugliosi and
Ken Hurwitz |
Til Death Do Us Part |
| 1978 | George Jonas and
Barbara Amiel |
By Persons Unknown |
| 1977 | Thomas Thompson | Blood and Money |
| 1976 | Tom Wicker | A Time to Die |
| 1975 | Vincent Bugliosi and
Curt Gentry |
Helter Skelter |
| 1974 | Barbara Levy | Legacy of Death |
| 1973 | Stephen Fay, Lewis
Chester, Magnus Linkletter |
Hoax |
| 1972 | Sandor Frankel | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt |
| 1971 | Mildred Savage | A Great Fall |
| 1970 | Herbert B. Ehrmann | The Case That Will Not Die |
| 1969 | John Walsh | Poe the Detective |
| 1968 | Victoria Lincoln | A Private Disgrace |
| 1967 | Gerold Frank | The Boston Strangler |
| 1966 | Truman Capote | In Cold Blood |
| 1965 | Anthony Lewis | Gideon's Trumpet |
| 1964 | Gerold Frank | The Deed |
| 1963 | Francis Russell | Tragedy in Dedham |
| 1962 | Barrett Prettyman, Jr. | Death and the Supreme Court |
| 1961 | Miriam Allen deFord | The Overbury Affair |
| 1960 | Thomas Gallager | Fire at Sea |
| 1959 | Wenzell Brown | They Died in the Chair |
| 1958 | Harold R. Danforth and
James D. Horan |
The D.A.'s Man |
| 1957 | Charles and Louise Samuels | Night Fell on Georgia |
| 1956 | Manley Wade Wellman | Dead and Gone |
| 1955 | Charles Boswell and Lewis Thompson | The Girl With the Scarlet Brand |
| 1954 | John Bartlow Martin | Why Did They Kill? |
| 1953 | Erle Stanley Gardner | Court of Last Resort |
| 1952 | St. Clair McKelway | True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality |
| 1951 | Edward D. Radin | Twelve Against Crime |
| 1950 | Joseph Henry Jackson | Bad Company |
| 1949 | Marie Rodell | Regional Murder Series |
| 1948 | Edward D. Radin | Twelve Against the Law |
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