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FOR BEST FIRST MYSTERY NOVEL 1946-2003 |
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FOR BEST FIRST MYSTERY NOVEL 1946-2003 |
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Founded in 1945, the Mystery Writers of America is the preeminent American organization of mystery writers. Each April, the MWA bestows the coveted Edgar Allan Poe Awards for achievement in various categories. The award for Best First Mystery Novel by an American Author was inaugurated in 1946.
| 2003 | Jonathon King | The Blue Edge of Midnight |
| 2002 | David Ellis | Line of Vision |
| 2001 | David Liss | A Conspiracy of Paper |
| 2000 | Eliot Patterson | The Skull Mantra |
| 1999 | Steve Hamilton | A Cold Day in Paradise |
| 1998 | Joseph Kanon | Los Alamos |
| 1997 | John Morgan Wilson | Simple Justice |
| 1996 | David Housewright | Penance |
| 1995 | George Dawes Green | The Caveman's Valentine |
| 1994 | Laurie King | A Grave Talent |
| 1993 | Michael Connelly | Black Echo |
| 1992 | Peter Blauner | Slow Motion |
| 1991 | Patricia Cornwell | Post Mortem |
| 1990 | Susan Wolfe | The Last Billable Hour |
| 1989 | David Stout | Carolina Skeletons |
| 1988 | Deidre S. Laiken | Death Among the Strangers |
| 1987 | Larry Beinhart | No One Rides for Free |
| 1986 | Jonathan Kellerman | When the Bough Breaks |
| 1985 | R. D. Rosen | Strike Three, Your'e Dead |
| 1984 | Will Harriss | The Bay Psalm Book Murder |
| 1983 | Thomas Perry | The Butcher's Boy |
| 1982 | Stuart Woods | Chiefs |
| 1981 | Kay Nolte Smith | The Watcher |
| 1980 | Richaed North Patterson | The Lasko Tangent |
| 1979 | William L. DeAndrea | Killed in the Ratings |
| 1978 | Robert Ross | A French Finish |
| 1977 | James Patterson | The Thomas Berryman Number |
| 1976 | Rex Burns | The Alvarez Journal |
| 1975 | Gregory McDonald | Fletch |
| 1974 | Paul E. Erdman | The Billion Dollar Sure Thing |
| 1973 | R. H. Shimer | Squaw Point |
| 1972 | A. H. Z. Carr | Finding Maubee |
| 1971 | Lawrence Sanders | The Anderson Tapes |
| 1970 | Joe Gores | A Time for Predators |
| 1969 | E. Richard Johnson | Silver Street |
| 1968 | Michael Collins | Act of Fear |
| 1967 | Ross Thomas | The Cold War Swap |
| 1966 | John Ball | In the Heat of the Night |
| 1965 | Harry Kellerman | Friday the Rabbi Slept Late |
| 1964 | Cornelius Hirschberg | The Florentine Finish |
| 1963 | Robert L. Fish | The Fugitive |
| 1962 | Suzanne Blanc | The Green Stone |
| 1961 | John Holbrooke | The Man in the Cage |
| 1960 | Henry Slesar | The Grey Flannel Shroud |
| 1959 | Richard Martin Stern | The Bright Road to Fear |
| 1958 | William Rawle Weeks | Knock and wait a While |
| 1957 | Donald McNutt | Rebecca's Pride |
| 1956 | Lane Kauffman | The Perfectionist |
| 1955 | Jean Potts | Go, Lovely Rose |
| 1954 | Ira Levin | A Kiss Before Dying |
| 1953 | William Campbell Gault | Don't Cry for Me |
| 1952 | Mary McMullen | Strange Hold |
| 1951 | Thomas Walsh | Nightmare in Manhattan |
| 1950 | Alan Green | What a Body |
| 1949 | Mildred davis | The Room Upstairs |
| 1948 | Fredric Brown | The Fabulous Clipjoint |
| 1947 | Helen Eustis | The Horizontal Man |
| 1946 | Julius Fast | Watchful at Night |
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