1980 Edgar Allan Poe Award Winners

Awards List

First Novel

The Lasko Tangent (Winner)
Richard North Patterson

1979
/ Legal Thriller

Follow the Leader (Nominee)
John Logue

1979
/ Amateur Sleuth

Juvenile

The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore (Winner)
Joan Lowery Nixon

Apr-1979
/ Mystery

The Mystery Cottage in Left Field (Nominee)
Remus F. Caroselli

1979
/ Mystery

Novel

The Rheingold Route (Winner)
Arthur Maling

1980
/ Suspense

Fire in the Barley (Nominee)
Frank Parrish

1977
/ Amateur Sleuth

Make Death Love Me (Nominee)
Ruth Rendell

May-1980
/ Suspense

Death of a Mystery Writer (Nominee)
Robert Barnard

Jun-1980
/ Mystery

A Coat of Varnish (Nominee)
C.P. Snow / Charles Percy Snow

Sep-1988
/ Suspense

Paperback Original

The Hog Murders (Winner)
William L. Deandrea

Oct-1979
/ Mystery

The Infernal Device (Nominee)
Michael Kurland

Jan-1979
/ Historical Mystery

Vortex (Nominee)
David Heller

Jan-1979
/ General Fiction

The Queen Is Dead (Nominee)
Glenn Kezer

Apr-1979
/ General Fiction

Kremlin Conspiracy (Nominee)
Sean Flannery

Jan-1982
/ General Fiction

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

1980 Edgar Allan Poe Award (Awarded by Mystery Writers of America)

Awards List

First Novel

Juvenile

Novel

Paperback Original

Award Categories

Award Years