Year |
Edgar Winner for Best First
Novel by an American Author |
Author |
Publisher |
Available at
Partners & Crime |
2008 |
In the Woods |
Tana French |
Penguin Group - Viking |
First US edition. F/F. SIGNED |
$250 |
2007 |
The Faithful Spy |
Alex Berenson |
Random House |
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2006 |
Officer Down |
Theresa Schwegel |
St. Martin's Press/Minotaur |
First US edition.
F/F. SIGNED |
$95 |
2005 |
Country of Origin |
Don Lee |
W.W. Norton & Company |
First
US edition. F/F. |
$75 |
2004 |
Death of a Nationalist |
Rebecca Pawel |
Soho Press |
First US edition.
F/F. SIGNED |
$175 |
2003 |
The Blue Edge of Midnight |
Jonathon King |
Dutton |
First US edition. F/F. SIGNED |
$150 |
2002 |
Line of Vision |
David Ellis |
G. P. Putnam's Sons |
First US edition.
F/F. SIGNED |
$75
SOLD |
2001 |
Conspiracy of Paper |
David Liss |
Random House |
First US edition. F/F. SIGNED |
$125 |
2000 |
The Skull Mantra |
Eliot Pattison |
St. Martin's Press |
First US edition.
F/F. SIGNED |
$75 |
1999 |
A Cold Day in Paradise |
Steve Hamilton |
St. Martin's Press |
First US edition. F/F. SIGNED |
$125 |
1998 |
Los Alamos |
Joseph Kanon |
Broadway Books |
First US edition.
F/F. SIGNED |
$125 |
1997 |
Simple Justice |
John Morgan Wilson |
Doubleday |
First US edition. F/F. SIGNED |
$75 |
1996 |
Penance |
David Housewright |
Foul Play/Countryman Press |
First US edition. F/F. |
$150 |
1995 |
The Caveman's Valentine |
George Dawes Green |
Warner Books |
First US edition. NF/NF.
SIGNED |
$150 |
1994 |
A Grave Talent |
Laurie R. King |
St. Martin's Press |
First US edition.
F/F.
first state -
second state -
both SIGNED |
$950
$450 |
1993 |
The Black Echo |
Michael Connelly |
Little, Brown |
First US edition. F/F.
SIGNED |
$875
SOLD |
1992 |
Slow Motion Riot |
Peter Blauner |
Wm. Morrow |
First US edition.
F/F. SIGNED |
$75 |
1991 |
Postmortem |
Patricia D. Cornwell |
Scribners |
First US
edition. NF/F.
SIGNED bookplate
laid in |
$1650 |
1990 |
The Last Billable Hour |
Susan Wolfe |
St. Martin's Press |
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1989 |
Carolina Skeletons |
David Stout |
Mysterious Press |
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1988 |
Death Among Strangers |
Deidre S. Laiken |
Macmillan |
|
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1987 |
No One Rides for Free |
Larry Beinhart |
Wm. Morrow |
First US edition.
NF/NF.
SIGNED |
$100 |
1986 |
When the Bough Breaks |
Jonathan Kellerman |
Atheneum |
First US edition. NF/NF.
SIGNED |
$175 |
1985 |
Strike Three, You're Dead |
R.D. Rosen |
Walker |
First US edition. F/F.
SIGNED |
$175 |
1984 |
The Bay Psalm Book Murder |
Will Harriss |
Walker |
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1983 |
The Butcher's Boy |
Thomas Perry |
Scribners |
First US
edition. NF/NF.
SIGNED |
$2200
|
1982 |
Chiefs |
Stuart Woods |
W.W. Norton & Co. |
2nd printing.
VG/G. |
$25 |
1981 |
The Watcher |
K. Nolte Smith |
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan |
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1980 |
The Lasko Tangent |
Richard North Patterson |
W.W. Norton & Co. |
First US edition. F/NF. |
$750 |
1979 |
Killed in the Ratings |
William L. DeAndrea |
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
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1978 |
A French Finish |
Robert Ross |
Putnam |
|
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1977 |
The Thomas Berryman Number |
James Patterson |
Little, Brown |
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1976 |
The Alvarez Journal |
Rex Burns |
Harper & Row |
|
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1975 |
Fletch |
Gregory McDonald |
Bobbs-Merrill |
First US edition.
F/F.
SIGNED |
$475 |
1974 |
The Billion Dollar Sure Thing |
Paul E. Erdman |
Scribners |
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1973 |
Squaw Point |
R.H. Shimer |
Harper & Row |
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1972 |
Finding Maubee |
A.H.Z. Carr |
Putnam |
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1971 |
The Anderson Tapes |
Lawrence Sanders |
Putnam |
|
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1970 |
A Time of Predators |
Joe Gores |
Random House |
First US edition.
NF/NF.
SIGNED |
$275 |
1969 |
The Bait |
Dorothy Uhnak |
Simon & Schuster |
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1969 |
Tie: Silver Street |
E. Richard Johnson |
Harper & Row |
|
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1968 |
Act of Fear |
Michael Collins |
Dodd, Mead |
|
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1967 |
The Cold War Swap |
Ross Thomas |
Morrow |
|
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1966 |
In The Heat of the Night |
John Ball |
Harper & Row |
First
US edition. NF/NF. |
$575 |
1965 |
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late |
Harry Kemelman |
Crown |
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1964 |
Florentine Finish |
Cornelius Hirschberg |
Harper & Row |
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1963 |
The Fugitive |
Robert L. Fish |
Simon & Schuster |
|
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1962 |
The Green Stone |
Suzanne Blanc |
Harper |
|
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1961 |
The Man in the Cage |
John Holbrooke Vance |
Random House |
|
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1960 |
The Grey Flannel Shroud |
Henry Slesar |
Random House |
First
US edition. VG/NF.
SIGNED |
$575 |
1959 |
The Bright Road to Fear |
Richard Martin Stern |
Ballantine |
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1958 |
Knock and Wait a While |
William Rawle Weeks |
Houghton Mifflin |
|
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1957 |
Rebecca's Pride |
Donald McNutt Douglass |
Harper |
First US edition. VG/NF. |
$450 |
1956 |
The Perfectionist |
Lane Kauffman |
Lippincott |
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1955 |
Go, Lovely Rose |
Jean Potts |
Scribners |
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1954 |
A Kiss Before Dying |
Ira Levin |
Simon & Schuster |
|
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1953 |
Don't Cry for Me |
William Campbell Gault |
Dutton |
|
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1952 |
Strangle Hold |
Mary McMullen |
Harper |
|
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1951 |
Nightmare in Manhattan |
Thomas Walsh |
Little, Brown |
First US edition. NF/NF. |
$175 |
1950 |
What A Body |
Alan Green |
Simon & Schuster |
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1949 |
The Room Upstairs |
Mildred Davis |
Simon & Schuster |
|
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1948 |
The Fabulous Clipjoint |
Fredric Brown |
Dutton |
First US edition.
Fair/no jacket. |
$25 |
1947 |
The Horizontal Man |
Helen Eustis |
Harper |
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1946 |
Watchful at Night |
Julius Fast |
Rinehart & Co. |
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