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Agatha Awards The Malice
Domestic fans give these awards to honor the traditional mystery—books
best typified by the works of Agatha Christie. The 2009 Awards are
presented in 2010 for books written in 2009.
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Anthony Award Nominees The Anthony Awards are given at each
annual Bouchercon World Mystery Convention with the winners
selected by attendees. The award is named for the late Anthony
Boucher (William Anthony Parker White), well-known writer
and critic from the San Francisco Chronicle and New York Times,
who helped found the Mystery Writers of America.
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Barry Award Nominees The Barry Awards, voted on by the readers of Deadly
Pleasures and Mystery News, are presented at the annual
Bouchercon World Mystery Convention. The awards began in 1997 and
are named in honor of Barry Gardner, well-known fan reviewer.
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Dagger Award Nominees The Dagger Awards were founded by The
Crime Writer’ Association in 1956 and celebrate the
very best in crime and thriller writing. We list only the
fiction awards.
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Dilys Award The Dilys Award is given annually by the Independent
Mystery Booksellers Association to the mystery titles of the year that
the member booksellers have most enjoyed selling. The 2009 Award is
presented in 2010 for books sold in 2009.
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Edgar Awards The Mystery Writers of America give these awards
to honor the best in mystery fiction and nonfiction produced the
previous year. (We list only the fiction awards.) The awards began
in 1954 and are named in honor of Edgar Allan Poe.
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Arthur Ellis Awards The Crime Writers of Canada present the
Arthur Ellis Awards (named after the nom de travail of
Canada’s official hangman) to recognize excellence in
Canadian crime writing.
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Hammett Prize The Hammett Prize is given annually by the North
American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers to honor
literary excellence in the field of crime-writing published
in the English language in the US and/or Canada.
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Lefty Award The Lefty Award is given annually to the
most humorous mystery. It is voted on by Left
Coast Crime attendees. The Bruce Alexander Memorial Mystery Award
(for historical mysteries covering events before 1950) is also
presented at Left Coast Crime.
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Macavity Award Nominees The Macavity Award is named for the “mystery
cat” of T.S. Eliot (Old Possum’s Book of Practical
Cats). Each year the members of Mystery Readers International
nominate and vote for their favorite mysteries.
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Ned Kelly Award Nominees
The Ned Kelly Awards (named for a notorious Australian outlaw of
the 19th century) are presented by the Crime Writers’ Association
of Australia (CWAA) to recognize and promote excellence in Australian
crime writing.
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Nero Award Nominees The Nero Award is presented annually by The Wolfe Pack for the best American
Mystery written in the tradition of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe
stories.
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Shamus Award Nominees The Shamus Awards are awarded by the
Private Eye Writers of America (PWA). The PWA defines a “private
eye” as any mystery protagonist who is a professional
investigator, but not a police officer or government agent.
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