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Literary award for mystery writers

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::summary Literary award for mystery writers ::

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Field	Value
awarded_for	Best in mystery fiction
presenter	Bouchercon World Mystery Convention
year	1986
website
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| awarded_for = Best in mystery fiction | presenter = Bouchercon World Mystery Convention | year = 1986 | website = The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers presented at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention since 1986. The awards are named for Anthony Boucher (1911–1968), one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America.

Winners

1980s

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Year	Category	Author	Title	1986	First Novel	Movie	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	TV Series	Grand Master	1987	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	1988	First Novel	Movie	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	TV Series	1989	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	Lifetime Achievement	Distinguished Contribution
	When the Bough Breaks
	Witness
	"B" Is for Burglar
	Say No to Murder
	"Lucky Penny" from The New Black Mask, No. 3
	Murder She Wrote

	Too Late to Die
	"C" Is for Corpse
	**
	"The Parker Shotgun" from Mean Streets
	Caught Dead in Philadelphia
	**
	Skinwalkers
	**
	"Breakfast Television" from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 1987
	Mystery!
	**
	**
	Something Wicked
No award presented


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1990s

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Year	Category	Author	Title	Ref.	1990	First Novel	Movie	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	TV Series	Lifetime Achievement	1991	Critical work	First Novel	Motion Picture	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	Television series	Lifetime Achievement	1992	Anthology / Short Story collection	Critical work	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	True Crime	Lifetime Achievement	1993	Critical work	First Novel	Motion Picture	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	True Crime	Lifetime Achievement	1994	Anthology / Short Story collection	Critical work	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	True Crime	Lifetime Achievement	1995	Anthology / Short Story collection	Critical work	Film	First Novel	Novel	Short Story	True Crime	TV Series	Lifetime Achievement	1996	Cover Art	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Editor	First Novel	Magazine / Digest / Review Publication	Movie	Novel	Paperback Original	Publisher	Short Story	Short Story collection	True Crime	TV Show	1997	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Fanzine	First Novel	Novel	Short Story	Lifetime Achievement	1998	Cover Art	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	1999	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	Lifetime Achievement
	Katwalk
	Crimes and Misdemeanors
	**
	Honeymoon with Murder
	Afraid All The Time from Sisters in Crime
	Inspector Morse

and Martin H. Greenberg	Synod Of Sleuths
	Postmortem
	Presumed Innocent
	"G" Is for Gumshoe
	Where's Mommy Now?
	Grave Undertaking
	"The Celestial Buffet" from Sisters in Crime 2
	Mystery!

	A Woman's Eye
	100 Great Detectives
	Murder on the Iditarod Trail
	**
No award presented
	"Lucky Dip" from A Woman’s Eye
	Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

	Doubleday Crime Club Compendium 1928-1991
	Blanche on the Lam
	**
	Bootlegger's Daughter
No award presented
	"Cold Turkey" from Sisters in Crime 5
	The Doctor, the Murder, the Mystery: The True Story of the Dr. John Branion Murder Case


	Mary Higgins Clark presents Malice Domestic 2
, Martin H. Greenberg, and Larry Segriff	The Fine Art Of Murder: The Mystery Reader's Indispensable Companion
	Track of the Cat
	Wolf in the Shadows
No award presented
	"Checkout" from Malice Domestic 2
	**

	**
and J. Cooper	Crime Fiction, 2nd Edition
	Pulp Fiction
	**
	She Walks These Hills
	"The Monster of Glamis" from Royal Crimes
	Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer
	Prime Suspect

	**
	**

	Death in Bloodhound Red
	**
	**
	Under the Beetle's Cellar
	Deal Breaker

	"And Pray Nobody Sees You" from Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes
	**
	Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?
	**
	Detecting Women 2: Reader's Guide and Checklist for Mystery Series Written by Women
	**
	Death in Little Tokyo
	Somebody Else's Child
	**
	"Accidents Will Happen" from Malice Domestic 5

	Night Dogs
No award presented
	Killing Floor
	No Colder Place
	Big Red Tequila
	"One Bag of Coconuts" from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 1997
	"A Front Row Seat" from Vengeance is Hers
	Deadly Pleasures Magazine
	Iron Lake
	Blood Work
	Butchers Hill
	"Of Course You Know that Chocolate Is a Vegetable" from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 1998

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2000s

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Year	Category	Author	Title	2000	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	First Novel	Novel	Novel of the century	Paperback Original	Series of the Century	Short Story	Writer of the Century	Lifetime Achievement	2001	Anthology / Short-story collection	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Fan Publication	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	Lifetime Achievement	2002	Cover Art	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	Young Adult Mystery	Special Service	2003	Cover Art	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	Special Service	2004	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	First Novel	Historical Mystery	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	Young Adult Mystery	Special Service	2005	Cover Art	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	Lifetime Achievement	Special Service	2006	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	Fan Publication	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	Lifetime Achievement	Special Service	2007	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	Lifetime Achievement	Special Service	2008	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	Website / Blog	Lifetime Achievement	Special Service	2009	Children's / Young-adult Novel	Cover Art	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	Lifetime Achievement	Special Service
	Detecting Women, 3rd edition
	Murder with Peacocks
	In a Dry Season
	Rebecca
	In Big Trouble
	Hercule Poirot series
	"Noir Lite" from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 1999


	Master's Choice II
	100 Favorite Mysteries Of The Century
and Lynn Kaczmarek	Mystery News
	Death of a Red Heroine
	**
	Death Dances to a Reggae Beat
	"" from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 2000

	"Reflecting the Sky," from photograph by Josef Beck
	Seldom Disappointed
	Open Season
	Mystic River
	Dead Until Dark
and Judy Crider	"Chocolate Moose" from Death Dines at 8:30
	**

	"Measures of Poison" from photograph by Christopher Voelker
	They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated and Forgotten Mystery Novels
	In the Bleak Midwinter
	City of Bones
	Fatal Truth
	"Too Many Cooks" from Much Ado About Murder
No award issued
	Make Mine a Mystery: A Reader's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction
	Monkeewrench
	For The Love Of Mike
	Every Secret Thing
	Deadly Legacy
	"Doppelganger" from Blood on Their Hands
	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
No award issued
	Brooklyn Noir
et al.	Men's Adventure Magazines
	Dating Dead Men
	Blood Hollow
	Twisted City
	"Wedding Knife" from Chesapeake Crimes
and Marcia Muller

No award issued
	The Heirs of Anthony Boucher
	Crimespree Magazine
	Tilt-a-Whirl
	Mercy Falls
	The James Deans
	"Misdirection" from Greatest Hits

	Mystery Readers International
and Austin Lugar	Mystery Muses
	Still Life
	No Good Deeds
	Ashes and Bones
	"My Father's Secret" from Crimespree Magazine


Crum Creek Press

, Daniel Stashower, and Charles Foley	Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
	In the Woods
	What the Dead Know
	**
	"Hardly Knew Her" from Dead Man's Hand
and Stan Ulrich	Stop, You're Killing Me!


	Crimespree magazine
	**
	**
	Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography
	**
	**
	State of the Onion
	"A Sleep Not Unlike Death" from Hardcore Hardboiled

	Crimespree magazine
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2010s

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Year	Category	Author	Title	Ref.	2010	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	Special Service award	2011	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	First Novel	Graphic Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	Website / Blog	Lifetime Achievement	Special Service award	2012	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	2013	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	2014	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	2015	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	2016	Anthology or Collection	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	Young Adult Novel	2017	Anthology or Collection	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	First Novel	Novel	Novella	Paperback Original	Short Story	Young Adult Novel	2018	Anthology	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	First Novel	Novel	Online Content	Paperback Original	Short Story	Bill Crider Award for Novel in a Series	2019	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story
	Talking About Detective Fiction
	**
	**
	Starvation Lake
	On the House from Quarry: Crime Stories by New England Writers
No award issued
	Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks
	Damage Done
	**
	Bury Your Dead
	Expiration Date
	"Swing Shift" from Crimes By Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side
and Stan Ulrich	Stop, You're Killing Me!

	Shots
	**
	Learning to Swim
	**
	Buffalo West Wing
	"Disarming" from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 2011
and Declan Burke	Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels
	**
	**
	Big Maria
	"Mischief in Mesopotamia" from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 2012
	The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot To Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
	Yesterday's Echo
	Ordinary Grace
	As She Left It
	"The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository"
(ed.)	Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer's Journey
	**
	After I'm Gone
	**
	"The Odds Are Against Us"
(ed.)	Murder Under the Oaks
	Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
	Past Crimes
	**
	**
	**
	Need
(ed.)	Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016
	Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
	IQ
	**
	**
	Heart of Stone
	"Oxford Girl"
	**
(ed.)	**
	Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
	Hollywood Homicide
	Bluebird, Bluebird
Jungle Red Writers
	The Day I Died
	"My Side of the Matter"
	"Y" is for Yesterday
	I'll Be Gone in the Dark
	My Sister, the Serial Killer
	November Road
	Under a Dark Sky
	**
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2020s

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Year	Category	Author	Title	2020	Anthology or Collection	Critical / Non-Fiction Work	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	Young Adult	2021	Anthology or Collection	Critical/Non-Fiction Work	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	Young Adult	2022	Anthology or Collection	Critical/Non-Fiction Work award	First Novel	Novel	Paperback Original	Short Story	Young Adult	2023	Anthology	Children’s/Young Adult	Critical/Non-fiction	First Novel	Hardcover	Historical	Humorous	Paperback/E-book/Audiobook	Short Story	2024	Anthology	Children’s/Young Adult	Critical/Non-fiction	First Novel	Hardcover	Paperback/E-book/Audiobook	Short Story
, Rita Owen, and Shawn Reilly Simmons (eds.)	Malice Domestic 14: Mystery Most Edible
	The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women
	One Night Gone
	**
	**
	**
	Seven Ways to Get Rid of Harry
(editor)	Shattering Glass: A Nasty Woman Press Anthology
	Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime Murder, Deceit, and Obsession
	Winter Counts
	Blacktop Wasteland
	Unspeakable Things
	"90 Miles"
	Holly Hernandez and the Death of Disco
(editor)	This Time for Sure: Bouchercon Anthology 2021
and Laurie R. King	How To Write a Mystery: A Handbook From Mystery Writers of America
	Arsenic and Adobo
	Razorblade Tears
	Bloodline
	“Not My Cross to Bear”
	I Play One on TV
(editor)	Crime Hits Home: A Collection of Stories from Crime Fiction’s Top Authors
	Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade
	The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators

	Like a Sister
	Anywhere You Run
	Scot in a Trap

	“Beauty and the Beyotch”
(editor)	Killin' Time in San Diego
	Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose
	A Fever in the Heartland
	Mother-Daughter Murder Night
	All the Sinners Bleed
	Hide
& Kristopher Zgorski	“Ticket to Ride”
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References

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Gallagher, Maria (October 6, 1989). [https://www.newspapers.com/image/186478109/?clipping_id=120082168 "Hit of the Week: Murderous Writers Plot Mystery Weekend in Philly"]. ''Philadelphia Daily News''. p. 61. Retrieved March 3, 2023.
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(2013-09-20). "Book Brahmin: Diane Mott Davidson".
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(2018-09-10). "The 2018 Anthony Award Winners".
(2019-11-03). "Announcing the 2019 Anthony Award Winners".
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(2020-10-19). "The Anthony Award Winners".
(2021-08-30). "Announcing the 2021 Anthony Award winners".
(31 August 2021). "2021 Anthony Award Winners".
Schaub, Michael. (2021-08-30). "Winners of the Anthony Awards Are Revealed".
Schaub, Michael. (2022-09-12). "Winners of the 2022 Anthony Awards Are Revealed".
(2024-08-31). "2024 Anthony Award Winners – The Poisoned Pen Bookstore".

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