1997 Edgar Allan Poe Award (Awarded by Mystery Writers of America)

Awards List

Critical/Biographical

Elusion Aforethought: The Life and Writing of Anthony Berkeley Cox
(Nominee)
Malcolm J. Turnbull

First Novel

Simple Justice
(Winner)
John Morgan Wilson

A Test of Wills
(Nominee)
Charles Todd

A Brother's Blood
(Nominee)
Michael C. White

The Queen's Man
(Nominee)
Sharon Kay Penman

Bonita Faye
(Nominee)
Margaret Moseley

Juvenile

The Clearing
(Winner)
Dorothy Reynolds Miller

The Case of the Wiggling Wig
(Nominee)
E.W. Hildick
  • / Amateur Sleuth

Gaps in Stone Walls
(Nominee)
John Neufeld
  • / General Fiction

Cousins in the Castle
(Nominee)
Barbara Brooks Wallace

The Last Piper
(Nominee)
Helen Cavanagh

Novel

The Chatham School Affair
(Winner)
Thomas H. Cook

With Child
(Nominee)
Laurie R. King

Pentecost Alley
(Nominee)
Anne Perry

Mean Streak
(Nominee)
Carolyn Wheat

Hearts and Bones
(Nominee)
Margaret Lawrence

Paperback Original

Fade Away
(Winner)
Harlan Coben

Tribe
(Nominee)
R.D. Zimmerman

Walking Rain
(Nominee)
Susan Wade

Silent Words
(Nominee)
Joan M. Drury

The Grass Widow
(Nominee)
Teri Holbrook

Short Story

Red Clay
(Winner)
Michael Malone
in Murder for Love

Young Adult

Twisted Summer
(Winner)
Willo Davis Roberts

Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?
(Nominee)
Mel Glenn

Flyers
(Nominee)
Daniel Hayes

Hawk Moon
(Nominee)
Rob MacGregor

Mr. Was
(Nominee)
Pete Hautman

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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