- Best Novel
- Best first novel by an American author
- Best Paperback original
- Best critical / biographical
- Best fact Crime
- Best Short Story
- Best young adult
- Best juvenile
- Best television episode teleplay
- Best motion picture screenplay
- Best play
Here is a list of the Edgar Best Novel award winners
- 2005 T. Jefferson Parker , ''California Girl''
- 2004 Ian Rankin , ''Resurrection Men''
- 2003 S. J. Rozan , ''Winter and Night''
- 2002 T. Jefferson Parker , ''Silent Joe''
- 2001 Joe R. Lansdale , ''The Bottoms''
- 2000 Jan Burke , ''Bones''
- 1999 Robert Clark , ''Mr. White's Confession''
- 1998 James Lee Burke , ''Cimarron Rose''
- 1997 Thomas H. Cook , ''The Chatham School Affair''
- 1996 Dick Francis , ''Come to Grief''
- 1995 Mary Willis Walker , ''The Red Scream''
- 1994 Minette Walters , ''The Sculptress''
- 1993 Margaret Maron , ''Bootlegger's Daughter''
- 1992 Lawrence Block , ''A Dance at the Slaughterhouse''
- 1991 Julie Smith , ''New Orleans Mourning''
- 1990 James Lee Burke , ''Black Cherry Blues''
- 1989 Stuart M. Kaminsky , ''A Cold Red Sunrise''
- 1988 Aaron Elkins , ''Old Bones''
- 1987 Barbara Vine , ''A Dark Adapted Eye''
- 1986 L.R. Wright , ''The Suspect''
- 1985 Ross Thomas , ''Briarpatch''
- 1984 Elmore Leonard , ''La Brava''
- 1983 Rick Boyer , ''Billinsgate Shoal''
- 1982 William Bayer , ''Peregrine''
- 1981 Dick Francis , ''Whip Hand''
- 1980 Arthur Maling , ''The Rheingold Route''
- 1979 Ken Follett , '' The Eye Of The Needle ''
- 1978 William Hallahan , ''Catch Me: Kill Me''
- 1977 Robert B. Parker , ''Promised Land''
- 1976 Brian Garfield , '' Hopscotch ''
- 1975 Jon Cleary , ''Peter's Pence''
- 1974 Tony Hillerman , ''Dance Hall of the Dead''
- 1973 Warren Kiefer , ''The Lingala Code''
- 1972 Frederick Forsyth , '' The Day Of The Jackal ''
- 1971 Maj Sjowall ''The Laughing Policeman''
- 1970 Dick Francis , ''Forfeit''
- 1969 Michael Crichton writing as Jeffrey Hudson, ''A Case of Need''
- 1968 Donald E. Westlake , ''God Save the Mark''
- 1967 Nicholas Freeling , ''King of the Rainy Country''
- 1966 Adam Hall , ''The Quiller Memorandum''
- 1965 John Le Carré , '' The Spy Who Came In From The Cold ''
- 1964 Eric Ambler , ''The Light of Day''
- 1963 Ellis Peters , ''Death of the Joyful Woman''
- 1962 J. J. Marric , ''Gideon's Fire''
- 1961 Julian Symons , ''Progress of a Crime''
- 1960 Celia Fremlin , ''The Hours Before Dawn''
- 1959 Stanley Ellin , ''The Eighth Circle''
- 1958 Ed Lacy , ''Room to Swing''
- 1957 Charlotte Armstrong , ''A Dram of Poison''
- 1956 Margaret Millar , ''Beast in View''
- 1955 Raymond Chandler , '' The Long Goodbye ''
- 1954 Charlotte Jay , ''Beat not the Bones''
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