1983 Edgar Allan Poe Award (Awarded by Mystery Writers of America)

Awards List

First Novel

The Butcher's Boy
(Winner)
Thomas Perry

By Frequent Anguish
(Nominee)
S.F.X. Dean

Unholy Communion
(Nominee)
Richard Hughes

In the Heat of the Summer
(Nominee)
John Katzenbach

Two If by Sea
(Nominee)
Ernest Savage

Juvenile

The Murder of Hound Dog Bates
(Winner)
Robbie Branscum

Kept in the Dark
(Nominee)
Nina Bawden

Clone Catcher
(Nominee)
Alfred Slote

Cadbury's Coffin
(Nominee)
Glendon Swarthout

Novel

Billingsgate Shoal
(Winner)
Rick Boyer
  • / Amateur Sleuth
  • Buy Buy

Kahawa
(Nominee)
Donald E. Westlake

Split Images
(Nominee)
Elmore Leonard

Eight Million Ways to Die
(Nominee)
Lawrence Block
  • / Private Investigator
  • Buy Buy

The Captain
(Nominee)
Seymour Shubin

Paperback Original

Triangle
(Winner)
Teri White

Clandestine
(Nominee)
James Ellroy

The Missing and the Dead
(Nominee)
Jack Lynch

Vital Signs
(Nominee)
Ralph Burrows M.D.

Award Categories

Critical/Biographical

First Novel

Juvenile

Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award

Mary Higgins Clark Award

Motion Picture

Novel

Paperback Original

Short Story

Sue Grafton Memorial Award

The Robert L Fish Memorial Award

Young Adult

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