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Annual award for the best detective fiction novels of the year
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2284:The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown
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2707:Best P. I. Series Character – The Hammer
2314:The Questionable Behavior of Dahlia Moss
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612:Brandon, Dingle Co. Kerry /Ireland 2001
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1888:West Coast Crime, Portland/Oregon 1994
1628:Best P. I. Paperback Original winners
669:Brandon, Dingle Co. Kerry/Ireland 2004
103:THE EYE – Lifetime Achievement Award
2995:Mystery and detective fiction awards
2954:"The Private Eye Writers of America"
2712:Best P. I. Series Character winners
2366:THE EYE – Lifetime Achievement Award
2068:Dorchester Publishing, New York 2004
1524:St. Martin's Minotaur, New York 2014
1456:St. Martin's Minotaur, New York 2010
1424:St. Martin's Minotaur, New York 2008
1261:Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1999
795:St. Martin’s Minotaur, New York 2014
574:St. Martin’s Minotaur, New York 2001
2376:Lifetime Achievement Award winners
2142:Medallion Press, St Charles/IL 2008
2015:New American Library, New York 2001
498:Simon & Schuster, New York 1997
165:Best P. I. Hardcover Novel winners
55:Bouchercon World Mystery Convention
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2357:Barbados Hall Communications, 2020
2180:Grove/Atlantic Inc., New York 2010
707:Bleak House Books, Madison/WI 2008
688:Bleak House Books, Madison/WI 2007
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2161:Three Rivers Press, New York 2009
1848:The Last Tango of Dolores Delgado
1814:Fawcett Books, Greenwich/CT. 1990
1674:Worldwide, New York/ Toronto 1982
1278:Thomas Dunne Books, New York 2000
1242:St. Martin’s Press, New York 1998
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517:Carroll & Graf, New York 1998
460:St. Martin’s Press, New York 1995
232:St. Martin’s Press, New York 1983
194:St. Martin’s Press, New York 1981
2269:Down & Out Books, Tampa 2015
2252:Down & Out Books, Tampa 2014
1594:MCD Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2018
1541:Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso 2015
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2106:Kensington Books, New York 2006
1960:Ballantine Books, New York 1998
1871:Penguin Books CND, Toronto 1993
1691:Ballantine Books, New York 1983
1507:Mysterious Press, New York 2013
1371:Mysterious Press, New York 2005
1202:Walker & Co., New York 1996
1185:Walker & Co., New York 1995
1147:Walker & Co., New York 1993
1111:Walker & Co., New York 1991
980:Watts Publishing, New York 1984
951:Best First P. I. Novel winners
401:Walker & Co., New York 1992
397:The Man Who was Taller Than God
289:Harper & Row, New York 1986
2836:Best Indie P.I. Novel winners
2125:Hard Case Crime, New York 2007
1335:Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2003
536:Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1999
344:Delacorte Press, New York 1989
95:Best P. I. Paperback Original
32:Private Eye Writers of America
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1390:William Morrow, New York 2006
1168:Harcourt Brace, New York 1994
555:William Morrow, New York 2000
420:William Morrow, New York 1993
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1996:Avon Twilight, New York 2000
1710:Fawcett Crest, New York 1984
1407:William Morow, New York 2007
1126:The Woman Who Married a Bear
251:Houghton Mifflin, Boston1984
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2032:Bantam Books, New York 2002
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1780:Bantam Books, New York 1988
1746:Bantam Books, New York 1986
1655:Bantam Books, New York 1981
1223:Bantam Books, New York 1997
416:The Devil Knows You're Dead
384:Bantam Books, New York 1991
79:Best P. I. Hardcover Novel
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1833:Batam Books, New York 1991
1763:Tom Doherty, New York 1987
1094:W.W. Norton, New York 1990
1016:Arbor House, New York 1986
999:Arbor House, New York 1985
901:Oceanview Publishing, 2019
883:Oceanview Publishing, 2019
650:Little, Brown, Boston 2005
306:Tom Doherty, New York 1987
213:Arbor House, New York 1982
160:Best P. I. Hardcover Novel
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1943:Avon Books, New York 1997
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1316:Scribner’s, New York 2002
1130:Soho Press, New York 1992
1033:Scribner’s, New York 1987
976:A Creative Kind of Killer
441:Henry Holt, New York 1994
365:Henry Holt, New York 1990
340:Extenuating Circumstances
325:Henry Holt, New York 1988
209:Eight Million Ways to Die
3000:American literary awards
1293:Chasing the Devil's Tail
844:G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2016
825:G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2016
546:Carolina Garcia-Aguilera
532:California Fire and Life
66:Shamus Award categories
2339:James D.F. Hannah, 2019
1992:Death in the Steel City
1810:Rafferty: Fatal Sisters
1573:The Last Place You Look
1386:The Wrong Kind of Blood
629:Putnam’s, New York 2004
479:Hyperion, New York 1996
111:Best P. I. Short Story
87:Best First P. I. Novel
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2747:The Nameless Detective
2413:William Campbell Gault
1665:William Campbell Gault
1560:Mulholland Books, 2017
1238:A Cold Day in Paradise
1163:A Drink Before the War
1107:Suffer Little Children
946:Best First P. I. Novel
937:Mulholland Books, 2022
840:The Room of White Fire
145:Best Indie P.I. Novel
2831:Best Indie P.I. Novel
2216:Harper, New York 2012
2051:Signet, New York 2003
1793:Hell's Only Half Full
1490:Putnam, New York 2012
1354:Headline, London 2003
1089:Devil in a Blue Dress
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2087:Plume, New York 2005
1867:Brothers and Sinners
1610:The Missing American
1577:Minotaur Books, 2017
863:Minotaur Books, 2018
859:What You Want to See
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2279:Vaseem Khan
2212:And She Was
2047:Cold Quarry
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380:Stolen Away
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2984:Categories
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2897:References
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2671:S.J. Rozan
2138:Snow Blind
1939:Charm City
1843:Marele Day
1776:Dirty Work
1759:Wild Night
1434:Brad Parks
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608:The Guards
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456:Concourse
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