| 2003 |
Jonathon King |
The Blue Edge of Midnight |
| 2002 |
David Ellis |
Line of Vision |
| 2001 |
David Liss |
A Conspiracy of Paper |
| 2000 |
Eliot Patterson |
The Skull Mantra |
| 1999 |
Steve Hamilton |
A Cold Day in Paradise |
| 1998 |
Joseph Kanon |
Los Alamos |
| 1997 |
John Morgan Wilson |
Simple Justice |
| 1996 |
David Housewright |
Penance |
| 1995 |
George Dawes Green |
The Caveman's Valentine |
| 1994 |
Laurie King |
A Grave Talent |
| 1993 |
Michael Connelly |
Black Echo 블랙 에코 |
| 1992 |
Peter Blauner |
Slow Motion |
| 1991 |
Patricia Cornwell |
Post Mortem 검시관 |
| 1990 |
Susan Wolfe |
The Last Billable Hour |
| 1989 |
David Stout |
Carolina Skeletons |
| 1988 |
Deidre S. Laiken |
Death Among the Strangers 죽음의 표적 |
| 1987 |
Larry Beinhart |
No One Rides for Free |
| 1986 |
Jonathan Kellerman |
When the Bough Breaks 신의 침묵 |
| 1985 |
R. D. Rosen |
Strike Three, Your'e Dead 스트라이크 살인 |
| 1984 |
Will Harriss |
The Bay Psalm Book Murder |
| 1983 |
Thomas Perry |
The Butcher's Boy 사라진 도살자 |
| 1982 |
Stuart Woods |
Chiefs |
| 1981 |
Kay Nolte Smith |
The Watcher |
| 1980 |
Richaed North Patterson |
The Lasko Tangent 라스코 탄젠트 |
| 1979 |
William L. DeAndrea |
Killed in the Ratings |
| 1978 |
Robert Ross |
A French Finish |
| 1977 |
James Patterson |
The Thomas Berryman Number |
| 1976 |
Rex Burns |
The Alvarez Journal |
| 1975 |
Gregory McDonald |
Fletch 플레치 |
| 1974 |
Paul E. Erdman |
The Billion Dollar Sure Thing |
| 1973 |
R. H. Shimer |
Squaw Point |
| 1972 |
A. H. Z. Carr |
Finding Maubee 모비를 찾아라 |
| 1971 |
Lawrence Sanders |
The Anderson Tapes 앤더슨의 테이프 |
| 1970 |
Joe Gores |
A Time for Predators |
| 1969 |
E. Richard Johnson
Dorothy Uhnak |
Silver Street
The Bait |
| 1968 |
Michael Collins |
Act of Fear |
| 1967 |
Ross Thomas |
The Cold War Swap |
| 1966 |
John Ball |
In the Heat of the Night 밤의 열기 속으로 |
| 1965 |
Harry Kellerman |
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late |
| 1964 |
Cornelius Hirschberg |
The Florentine Finish |
| 1963 |
Robert L. Fish |
The Fugitive |
| 1962 |
Suzanne Blanc |
The Green Stone |
| 1961 |
John Holbrooke |
The Man in the Cage |
| 1960 |
Henry Slesar |
The Grey Flannel Shroud 회색 플란넬 수의 |
| 1959 |
Richard Martin Stern |
The Bright Road to Fear |
| 1958 |
William Rawle Weeks |
Knock and wait a While |
| 1957 |
Donald McNutt |
Rebecca's Pride |
| 1956 |
Lane Kauffman |
The Perfectionist |
| 1955 |
Jean Potts |
Go, Lovely Rose |
| 1954 |
Ira Levin |
A Kiss Before Dying |
| 1953 |
William Campbell Gault |
Don't Cry for Me |
| 1952 |
Mary McMullen |
Strange Hold |
| 1951 |
Thomas Walsh |
Nightmare in Manhattan |
| 1950 |
Alan Green |
What a Body |
| 1949 |
Mildred davis |
The Room Upstairs |
| 1948 |
Fredric Brown |
The Fabulous Clipjoint |
| 1947 |
Helen Eustis |
The Horizontal Man |
| 1946 |
Julius Fast |
Watchful at Night |
* EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD FOR BEST FIRST MYSTERY NOVEL 1946-2003