Winners of the Best Novel category for the Edgar Awards.
Edgar Award for Best Novel Public
Created by Phil in SF
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Beat not the bones by Charlotte Jay
When colonial adminstrator David Warwick is found shot to death, the official verdict is suicide. Deep in dept, with a …
Phil in SF says: 1954 winner
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The long goodbye by Raymond Chandler
4 stars
In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the …
Phil in SF says: 1955 winner
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Phil in SF says: 1956 winner
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A dram of poison. by Charlotte Armstrong
4 stars
For fifty-five years, Kenneth Gibson has lived in backwaters. A former army clerk, he makes a quiet living teaching poetry …
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 …
Phil in SF says: 1959 winner
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The hours before dawn. by Celia Fremlin
If you are a student of seemingly minor social niceties and/or barbs you will thoroughly enjoy this tale of a …
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 …
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Death and the Joyful Woman by Edith Pargeter (The Felse Investigations, #2)
4 stars
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
4 stars
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)
4 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
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Phil in SF says: 1966 winner
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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
