2000 Edgar Award Winners Announced

Posted on May 5, 2000

The Edgar Awards are presented annually by the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) at its awards banquet. The "Edgars" are named after MWA's patron saint Edgar Allan Poe and are awarded to authors of distinguished work in various catagories of the genre. The winners of the 2000 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, sponsored by the Mystery Writers of America and honored at the 55th Edgar Gala, May 4th, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City, were:

• Best Novel: Bones by Jan Burke (S&S)
• Best First Novel by an American Author: The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison (St. Martin's Minotaur)
• Best Paperback Original: Fulton County Blues by Ruth Birmingham (Berkley Prime Crime)
• Best Fact Crime: Blind Eye by James B. Stewart (S&S)
• Best Critical/Biographical Work: Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle by Daniel Stashower (Holt)
• Best Short Story: "Heroes" by Anne Perry in Murder and Obsession edited by Otto Penzler (Delacorte)
• Best Juvenile: The Night Flyers by Elizabeth McDavid Jones (Pleasant Co.)
• Best Young Adult: Never Trust a Dead Man by Vivian Vande Velde (Harcourt)
• Best Television Episode: Law & Order: Refuge, Part 2 by Rene Balcer (NBC)
• Best Television Feature/Mini-Series: A Slight Case of Murder by Steven Schachter and William H. Macy, based on a novel by Donald Westlake (TNT).
• Best Movie: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, screenplay by Guy Ritchie (Polygram)
• Best Play: The Art of Murder by Joe Di Pietro, produced by Jonathan Pollard, George W. George and James N. Vagias
• Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: Cro-Magnon, P.I. by Mike Reiss, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, July/August
• Grand Master: Mary Higgins Clark
• Raven: The Mercantile Library, director: Harold Augenbraum
• Ellery Queen Award: Susanne Kirk, Simon & Schuster