Edgar Award for Best Novel Public

Created by Phil in SF

Winners of the Best Novel category for the Edgar Awards.

  1. Djinn patrol on the purple line : a novel by 

    No rating

    Down market lanes crammed with too many people, dogs, and rickshaws, past stalls that smell of cardamom and sizzling oil, …

  2. Beat Not the Bones by 

    No rating

    In the island port of Marapai, where white men tried to rule and often found it too hard, in the …

    Phil in SF says:

    1954 winner

  3. The Long Goodbye by  (Philip Marlowe, #6)

    No rating

    Remember Marlowe? Here he is back again, a little older, a shade or two wiser, but still man enough to …

  4. Beast in View by 

    No rating

    Wealthy, insecure Helen Clarvoe, living alone in a California town, first thought she was the victim of an unknown lunatic. …

    Phil in SF says:

    1956 winner

  5. A Dram of Poison by 

    No rating

    Ken Gibson was far from a swash-buckler. He was a college professor and at fifty-five a lonely bachelor, but within …

    Phil in SF says:

    1957 winner

  6. Room to Swing by 

    No rating

    If you're a Negro private eye from up North, you find it tricky sledding in a small Ohio town, close …

    Phil in SF says:

    1958 winner

  7. The Eighth Circle by 

    No rating

    Murray Kirk didn't need the Lundeen case. He had made a very good thing of the private detective business. He …

  8. The Hours Before Dawn by 

    No rating

    Night after night, for no apparent reason, the baby cried. Night after night, Louise Henderson dragged herself out of bed, …

    Phil in SF says:

    1960 winner

  9. The Progress of a Crime by 

    No rating

    Hugh Bennett, twenty-two years old, was a reporter for a small-town paper. His assignments were usually dull and local, and …

    Phil in SF says:

    1961 winner

  10. Gideon's Fire by  (George Gideon, #7)

    No rating

    Among the many crimes that were concerning George Gideon, commander of the Criminal Investigation Department at New Scotland Yard, there …

    Phil in SF says:

    1962 winner

  11. Death and the Joyful Woman by  (The Felse Investigations, #2)

    No rating

    Someone had battered Alfred Armiger to death with a champagne bottle. The favorite suspect was his son Leslie who had …

    Phil in SF says:

    1963 winner

  12. The Light of Day by 

    No rating

    The appearance of a new book by Eric Ambler is always an exciting event for all connoisseurs of the novel …

    Phil in SF says:

    1964 winner

  13. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by  (George Smiley, #3)

    3 stars

    This brilliant novel adds John le Carré's name to the microscopically small list of really great writers of espionage fiction. …

    Phil in SF says:

    1965 winner

  14. The Quiller memorandum by 

    No rating

    You are a secret agent working for the British in Berlin today. You are due to go home on leave, …

    Phil in SF says:

    1966 winner

  15. The King of the Rainy Country by  (Van der Valk, #6)

    No rating

    It had all started when an elegant businessman named Canisius came to Van der Valk to ask him to do …

    Phil in SF says:

    1967 winner

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