Winners of the Best Novel category for the Edgar Awards.
Edgar Award for Best Novel Public
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Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay
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
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The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (Philip Marlowe, #6)
Remember Marlowe? Here he is back again, a little older, a shade or two wiser, but still man enough to …
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Beast in View by Margaret Millar
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
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A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong
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
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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
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The Eighth Circle by Stanley Ellin
Murray Kirk didn't need the Lundeen case. He had made a very good thing of the private detective business. He …
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The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin
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
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The Progress of a Crime by Julian Symons
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
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Gideon's Fire by John Creasey (George Gideon, #7)
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
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Death and the Joyful Woman by Edith Pargeter (The Felse Investigations, #2)
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
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The Light of Day by Eric Ambler
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
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré (George Smiley, #3)
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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
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The Quiller memorandum by Adam Hall
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
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The King of the Rainy Country by Nicolas Freeling (Van der Valk, #6)
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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God Save the Mark by Donald E. Westlake
What, you ask, is a Fred Fitch? Well, for one thing Fred Fitch is the man with the most extensive …
Phil in SF says: 1968 winner
