1987 Edgar Allan Poe Award (Awarded by Mystery Writers of America)

Awards List

First Novel

No One Rides for Free
(Winner)
Larry Beinhart

Dead Air
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

Riceburner
(Nominee)
Richard Hyer

Floater
(Nominee)
Joseph Koenig

Lost
(Nominee)
Gary Devon

Juvenile

The Other Side of Dark
(Winner)
Joan Lowery Nixon

Floating Illusions
(Nominee)
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

The Secret Life of Dilly Mcbean
(Nominee)
Dorothy Haas
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

The Bodies in the Bessledorf Hotel
(Nominee)
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

The Skeleton Man
(Nominee)
Jay Bennett

Novel

A Dark-Adapted Eye
(Winner)
Barbara Vine

The Straight Man
(Nominee)
Roger L. Simon
  • / Private Investigator
  • Buy Buy

Come Morning
(Nominee)
Joe Gores

Charlie Muffin and the Russian Rose // The Blind Run
(Nominee)
Brian Freemantle

Paperback Original

The Junkyard Dog
(Winner)
Robert Campbell

Shattered Moon
(Nominee)
Kate Green

The Cat Who Saw Red
(Nominee)
Lilian Jackson Braun

Hazzard
(Nominee)
R.D. Brown

Ronin
(Nominee)
Nick Christian

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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