1985 Edgar Allan Poe Award Winners

Awards List

First Novel

Strike Three, You're Dead (Winner)
Richard Rosen / R.D. Rosen

May-1984
/ Private Investigator

Sweet, Savage Death (Nominee)
Orania Papazoglou

Mar-1984
/ Amateur Sleuth

Creative Kind of Killer (Nominee)
Jack Early

Apr-1984
/ Suspense

Someone Else's Grave (Nominee)
Alison Smith

Aug-1984
/ Suspense

Foul Shot (Nominee)
Doug Hornig

Oct-1984
/ Mystery

Juvenile

Night Cry (Winner)
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Jan-1984
/ General Fiction

The Third Eye (Nominee)
Lois Duncan

Apr-1984
/ Suspense

The Ghosts of Now (Nominee)
Joan Lowery Nixon

May-1986
/ Suspense

The Island on Bird Street (Nominee)
Uri Orlev

Feb-1992
/ Historical

Novel

Briarpatch (Winner)
Ross Thomas

Nov-1984
/ Suspense

The Black Seraphim (Nominee)
Michael Gilbert

Jan-1984
/ Suspense

Emily Dickinson Is Dead (Nominee)
Jane Langton

May-1984
/ Amateur Sleuth

Chessplayer (Nominee)
William Pearson

Jul-1984
/ General Fiction

The Twelfth Juror (Nominee)
B.M. Gill

Oct-1984
/ Suspense

Paperback Original

Grandmaster (Winner)
Molly Cochran; Warren Murphy

1985
/ Suspense

Black Knight in Red Square (Nominee)
Stuart M. Kaminsky

1983
/ Law Enforcement

Words Can Kill (Nominee)
Kenn Davis

Apr-1984
/ Private Investigator

The Keys to Billy Tillio (Nominee)
Eric Blau

Oct-1984
/ Suspense

The Seventh Sacrament (Nominee)
Roland Cutler

Dec-1984
/ 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

1985 Edgar Allan Poe Award (Awarded by Mystery Writers of America)

Awards List

First Novel

Juvenile

Novel

Paperback Original

Award Categories

Award Years