Joliet Public Library

Edgar Award Winners

2000   Bones by Jan Burke
1999   Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark
1998   Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke
1997   The Chatham Schook Affair by Thomas H. Cook
1996   Come to Grief by Dick Francis
1995   The Red Scream by Mary Willis Walker
1994   The Sculptress by Minette Walters
1993   Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron
1992   A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block
1991   New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith
1990   Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke
1989   A Cold Red Sunrise by Stuart M. Kaminsky
1988   Old Bones by Aaron Elkins
1987   A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell)
1986   The Suspect by L. R. Wright
1985   Briarpatch by Ross Thomas
1984   Labrava by Elmore Leonard
1983   Billingsgate Shoal by Rick Boyer
1982   Peregrine by William Bayer
1981   Whip Hand by Dick Francis
1980   The Rheingold Route by Arthur Maling
1979   The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
1978   Catch Me Kill Me by William Hallahan
1977   Promised Land by Robert B. Parker
1976   Hopscotch by Brian Garfield
1975   Peter's Pence by Jon Cleary
1974   Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman
1973   The Lingala Code by Warren Kiefer
1972   The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
1971   The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo
1970   Forfeit by Dick Francis
1969   A Case of Need by Jeffery Hudson & Michael Crichton
1968   God Save the Mark by Donald E. Westlake
1967   King of the Rainy Country by Nicolas Freeling
1966   The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall
1965   The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre
1964   The Light of Day by Eric Ambler
1963   Death and the Joyful Woman by Ellis Peters
1962   Gideon's Fire by J.J. Marric
1961   Progress of a Crime by Julian Symons
1960   The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin
1959   The Eighth Circle by Stanley Ellin
1958   Room to Swing by Ed Lacy
1957   A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong
1956   Beast in View by Margaret Millar
1955   The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
1954   Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay

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