Gold Dagger Award Winners
The Gold Dagger Award is presented by the British Crime Writers Association
            for the best crime novel of the year.

2000   Motherless in Brooklyn by  Jonathan Lethem
1999   A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson
1998   Sunset Limited by James Lee Burke
1997   Black And Blue by Ian Rankin
1996   Popcorn by Ben Elton
1995   The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid
1994   The Scold's Bridle by Minette Walters
1993   Cruel and Unusual by Patricia Cornwell
1992   The Way Through the Woods by Colin Dexter
1991   King Soloman's Carpet by Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell)
1990   Bones and Silence by Reginald Hill
1989   The Wench is Dead by Colin Dexter
1988   Ratking by Michael Dibdin
1987   A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell)
1986   Live Flesh by Ruth Rendell
1985   Monkey Puzzle by Paula Gosling
1984   The Twelfth Juror by B. M.Gill
1983   Accidental Crimes by John Hutton
1982   The False Inspector Dew by Peter Lovesey
1981   Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
1980   The Murder of the Maharajah by H.R.F. Keating
1979   Whip Hand by Dick Francis
1978   The Chelsea Murders by Lionel Davidson
1977   The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carre
1976   A Demon in my View by Ruth Rendell
1975   The Seven Per Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer
1974   Other Paths to Glory by Anthony Price
1973   The Defection of A. J. Lewinter by Robert Littell
1972   The Levanter by Eric Ambler
1971   The Steam Pig by James McClure
1970   Young Man I Think You're Dying by Joan Fleming
1969   A Pride of Heroes by Peter Dickinson
1968   Skin Deep (Glass-sided Ants Nest) by Peter Dickinson
1967   Murder Against the Grain by Emma Lathen
1966   A Long Way to Shiloh by Lionel Davidson
1965   The Far Side of the Dollar by Ross Macdonald
1964   The Perfect Murder by H.R.F. Keating
1963   The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John le Carre
1962   When I Grow Rich by Joan Fleming
1961   The Spoilt Kill by Mary Kelly
1960   The Night of Wenceslas by Lionel Davidson
1959   Passage of Arms by Eric Ambler
1958   Someone from the Past by Margot Bennett
1957   The Colour of Murder by Julian Symons
1956   The Second Man by Edward Grierson
1955   The Little Walls by Winston Graham

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