1970 Edgar Allan Poe Award Winners

Awards List

First Novel

A Time for Predators (Winner)
Joe Gores

1969
/ Suspense

Juvenile

Spice Island Mystery (Nominee)
Betty Cavanna

Jun-1969
/ General Fiction

Mystery of the Witch Who Wouldn't (Nominee)
Kin Platt

Mar-1973
/ General Fiction

They Never Came Home (Nominee)
Lois Duncan

Dec-1992
/ Suspense

Novel

Forfeit (Winner)
Dick Francis

Jun-1969
/ Suspense

The Old English Peep Show (Nominee)
Peter Dickinson

1969
/ Suspense

When in Greece (Nominee)
Emma Lathen

1969
/ Amateur Sleuth

Where the Dark Streets Go (Nominee)
Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Sep-1986
/ Suspense

Blind Man with a Pistol (Nominee)
Chester Himes

Dec-1989
/ Thriller

Paperback Original

The Dragon's Eye (Winner)
Scott C.S. Stone

1970
/ Suspense

The Governess (Nominee)
Elsie Cromwell

/ Romantic Suspense

The Sour Lemon Score (Nominee)
Richard Stark

1969
/ Action Adventure

A Plague of Spies (Nominee)
Michael Kurland

Oct-2016
/ Mystery

Award Categories

Critical/Biographical

First Novel

Juvenile

Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award

Mary Higgins Clark Award

Sue Grafton Memorial Award

The Robert L Fish Memorial Award

Young Adult

Award Years

Romance

Mystery/Thriller

Speculative

Younger Readers

1970 Edgar Allan Poe Award (Awarded by Mystery Writers of America)

Awards List

First Novel

Juvenile

Novel

Paperback Original

Award Categories

Award Years