1987 Anthony Award Winners

Awards List

First Novel

Too Late to Die (Winner)
Bill Crider

Jul-1986
/ Police Procedural

Strangled Prose (Nominee)
Joan Hess

Mar-1986
/ Cozy Mystery

Dead Air (Nominee)
Mike Lupica

Apr-1986
/ Amateur Sleuth

The Ritual Bath (Nominee)
Faye Kellerman

May-1986
/ Police Procedural

Floater (Nominee)
Joseph Koenig

Dec-1986
/ Mystery

Novel

C Is for Corpse (Winner)
Sue Grafton

May-1986
/ Private Investigator

When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (Nominee)
Lawrence Block

1986
/ Private Investigator

Life's Work (Nominee)
Jonathan Valin

Aug-1986
/ Private Investigator

No Body (Nominee)
Nancy Pickard

Oct-1986
/ Amateur Sleuth

Tropical Heat (Nominee)
John Lutz

Jun-1987
/ Private Investigator

Paperback Original

The Junkyard Dog (Winner)
Robert Campbell

Jul-1986
/ Law Enforcement

The Back-Door Man (Nominee)
Rob Kantner

1986
/ Mystery

The Cat Who Saw Red (Nominee)
Lilian Jackson Braun

Apr-1986
/ Amateur Sleuth

Too Old a Cat (Nominee)
Warren Murphy

Aug-1986
/ General Fiction

Trial by Fury (Nominee)
J.A. Jance

Dec-1986
/ Police Procedural

Award Categories

Audiobook

Bill Crider Award for Best Novel in a Series

Novella (8,000-40,000 words)

Paperback Original/E-Book Original

Short Stories/Collection

Short Story

Young Adult

Award Years

Romance

Mystery/Thriller

Speculative

Younger Readers

1987 Anthony Award (Awarded by Bouchercon World Mystery Convention)

Awards List

First Novel

Novel

Paperback Original

Award Categories

Award Years