Gold Dagger
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The Gold Dagger Award was an award given annually by the Crime Writers' Association
Crime Writers' Association
The Crime Writers Association is a writers' association in the United Kingdom. Founded by John Creasey in 1953, it is currently chaired by Peter James and claims 450+ members....

 for the best crime novel of the year.

For its first five years, the organization's top honor was known as the Crossed Red Herring Award.

From 1995 to 2002 the award acquired sponsorship from Macallan
The Macallan
The Macallan is a brand of single malt Scotch whisky first distilled in 1824 at The Macallan Distillery near Easter Elchies House, at Craigellachie, in Moray...

 and was known as the Macallan Gold Dagger.

In 2006, due to new sponsorship from the Duncan Lawrie Bank
Duncan Lawrie Bank
Duncan Lawrie Limited, known simply as Duncan Lawrie, is a small private bank with its head office in Belgravia, London. Founded in 1860, the bank offers a bespoke service, with an emphasis on a personal relationship, to high net worth individuals.- History :...

, the award was officially renamed the Duncan Lawrie Dagger, and gained a prize fund of £20,000. It was the biggest crime-fiction award in the world, in monetary terms. In 2008, Duncan Lawrie Bank quietly withdrew its sponsorship of the awards. As a result, the top prize is again called the Gold Dagger, but the monetary award has been slashed from £20,000 to £2,500.

From 1969 to 2005, the CWA awarded a Silver Dagger to the runner up. When Duncan Lawrie acquired sponsorship, this award was dropped.

The Crime Writers' Association also awards a biennial CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
The CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction is a British literary award established in 1978 by the Crime Writers' Association, who have awarded the Gold Dagger fiction award since 1955....

 and several other "Dagger" awards.

2000s

2010
  • Gold Dagger: Belinda Bauer
    Belinda Bauer (author)
    Belinda Bauer is a British writer of crime novels. She grew up in England and South Africa, and her debut novel Blacklands earned her the British Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger award for the best crime novel of 2010. Blacklands as well as her her next novel Darkside are set in a small...

    , Blacklands
    • S J Bolton, Blood Harvest (Bolton novel)
    • George Pelecanos
      George Pelecanos
      George P. Pelecanos is a Greek-American author. Many of his works are in the genre of detective fiction and set primarily in his hometown of Washington, D.C. He is also a film and television producer and a television writer...

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      The Way Home (Pelecanos novel)
    • Karen Campbell
      Karen Campbell
      Karen Campbell is a Scottish writer of contemporary fiction. Her three novels so far are police procedurals, set in Glasgow, featuring Sgt. Anna Cameron and Cath and Jamie Worth. Her fourth novel, due to be published in 2013, breaks away from the crime series.-Background:Karen Campbell was born...

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      Shadowplay (Campbell novel)

2009
  • Gold Dagger: William Brodrick
    William Brodrick (writer)
    William Brodrick is a British novelist, famous in particular for his novel The Sixth Lamentation, which was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club. He also won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award in 2009 for his novel A Whispered Name....

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    A Whispered Name
    • Kate Atkinson
      Kate Atkinson
      Kate Atkinson MBE is an English author.She was born in York, and studied English Literature at the University of Dundee, gaining her Masters Degree in 1974. She subsequently studied for a doctorate in American Literature. She has often spoken publicly about the fact that she failed at the viva ...

      , When Will There Be Good News?
    • Mark Billingham
      Mark Billingham
      Mark Philip David Billingham is an English novelist whose series of "Tom Thorne" crime novels are best-sellers in that particular genre. He is also a television screenwriter and has become a familiar face as an actor and comic....

      , In the Dark
    • Lawrence Block
      Lawrence Block
      Lawrence Block is an acclaimed contemporary American crime writer best known for two long-running New York–set series, about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, respectively...

      , Hit and Run
      Hit and Run (novel)
      Hit and Run is a Realistic Fiction novel by Lurlene McDaniel, published in 2007. It focuses on four teenagers whose lives intersect in a unimaginitive way. The book is told in all four viewpoints. The plot contains profanity and sexual situations.- Plot :...

    • M.R.Hall, The Coroner
    • Gene Kerrigan
      Gene Kerrigan
      Gene Kerrigan is an Irish journalist and novelist who grew up in Cabra in Dublin. His works include political commentary on Ireland since the 1970s in such publications as Magill magazine and the Sunday Independent newspaper. He has also written about Ireland for International Socialism magazine...

      , Dark Times in the City


2008
  • Duncan Lawrie Dagger: Frances Fyfield
    Frances Fyfield
    Frances Fyfield is the pseudonym of Frances Hegarty. Fyfield is a British lawyer and crime-writer.Born and brought up in Derbyshire, Frances Hegarty was mostly educated in convent schools before reading English at Newcastle University. After graduation, she took a course in criminal law. She...

    , Blood From Stone
    • James Lee Burke
      James Lee Burke
      James Lee Burke is an American author of mysteries, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won an Edgar Award for Black Cherry Blues and Cimarron Rose . The Robicheaux character has been portrayed twice on screen, first by Alec Baldwin and then Tommy Lee Jones...

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      The Tin Roof Blowdown
      The Tin Roof Blowdown
      The Tin Roof Blowdown is a crime novel by American author James Lee Burke. -Synopsis:After Hurricane Katrina devastates his beloved city of New Orleans, Dave Robicheaux is drawn into the fatal shooting of two young black looters, and the subsequent torture murder of a third...

    • Colin Cotterill
      Colin Cotterill
      Colin Cotterill is a London-born teacher, crime writer and cartoonist. Cotterill has dual English and Australian citizenship; however, he currently lives in Southeast Asia, where he writes the award-winning Dr...

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      The Coroner's Lunch
      The Coroner's Lunch
      The Coroner's Lunch is a crime novel by British author Colin Cotterill first published in 2004.-Plot summary:Despite a total lack of training, an utter dearth of experience and a complete absence of inclination, Dr. Siri Paiboun has just been appointed state coroner for the Lao People's Democratic...

    • Steve Hamilton
      Steve Hamilton (author)
      Steve Hamilton is an American writer of detective fiction. He was born January 10, 1961 and raised in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated in 1983 from the University of Michigan where he won the Hopwood Award for fiction. -Works:...

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      Night Work
    • Laura Lippman
      Laura Lippman
      Laura Lippman is an American author of detective fiction.-Biography:Lippmann was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the daughter of Theo Lippman Jr., a well known and respected writer at the Baltimore Sun, and Madeline Lippman, a retired school librarian for the...

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      What the Dead Know
      What the Dead Know
      'What the Dead Know' is a crime thriller by Laura Lippman published in 2007. The story, set in Baltimore in 2005, is about an investigation into a woman who claims to be Heather Bethany, a girl who had gone missing thirty years before. The book was critically acclaimed...

    • R. N. Morris, A Vengeful Longing


2007
  • Duncan Lawrie Dagger: Peter Temple
    Peter Temple
    Peter Temple is an Australian crime fiction writer.Formerly a journalist and journalism lecturer, Temple turned to fiction writing in the 1990s. His Jack Irish novels are set in Melbourne, Australia, and feature an unusual lawyer-gambler protagonist...

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    The Broken Shore
    The Broken Shore
    The Broken Shore is a Duncan Lawrie Dagger award winning novel by Australian author Peter Temple.-Plot Summary:The novel's central character is Joe Cashin, a Melbourne homicide detective. Following serious physical injuries he is posted to his hometown where he begins the process of rebuilding...

    • Giles Blunt
      Giles Blunt
      Giles Blunt is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter born in in Windsor, Ontario. His first novel, Cold Eye, was a psychological thriller set in the New York art world, which was made into the French movie Les Couleurs du diable ....

      , The Fields of Grief
    • James Lee Burke
      James Lee Burke
      James Lee Burke is an American author of mysteries, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won an Edgar Award for Black Cherry Blues and Cimarron Rose . The Robicheaux character has been portrayed twice on screen, first by Alec Baldwin and then Tommy Lee Jones...

      , Pegasus Descending
    • Gillian Flynn
      Gillian Flynn
      Gillian Flynn is an American author and former television critic for Entertainment Weekly. As of 2009, she has published two novels: Sharp Objects and Dark Places .-Biography:...

      , Sharp Objects
    • Craig Russell
      Craig Russell (British author)
      Craig Russell is a British-born novelist and short story writer. His Hamburg-set thriller series featuring detective Jan Fabel has been translated into 23 languages. Russell speaks fluent German and has a special interest in post-war German history...

      , Brother Grimm
    • C. J. Sansom
      C. J. Sansom
      Christopher John "C.J." Sansom is a British writer of crime novels. He was born in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was educated at the University of Birmingham, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. After working in a variety of jobs, he decided to retrain as a solicitor...

      , Sovereign
      Sovereign (C. J. Sansom novel)
      Sovereign, published in 2006, is a crime novel by British author C. J. Sansom. It is Sansom's fourth novel, and the third in the Shardlake series...



2006 (award re-named)
  • Duncan Lawrie Dagger: Ann Cleeves
    Ann Cleeves
    Ann Cleeves is a British crime-writer. In 2006 she was the first author to win the inaugural Duncan Lawrie Dagger, the richest crime-writing prize in the world, for her novel Raven Black....

    , Raven Black
    • Simon Beckett
      Simon Beckett
      Simon Beckett is a British journalist and author.-Life and works:After earning a Master of Arts degree in English, Beckett taught in Spain and played in several bands before becoming a freelance journalist. He has written for The Times, The Independent on Sunday, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer,...

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      The Chemistry of Death
      The Chemistry of Death
      The Chemistry of Death is a novel by the British crime fiction writer Simon Beckett, first published in 2006. The novel introduced the character of Dr David Hunter, who has gone on to feature in other novels by the writer....

    • Thomas H. Cook
      Thomas H. Cook
      Thomas H. Cook is an American author, whose 1996 novel The Chatham School Affair received an Edgar award from the Mystery Writers of America.Thomas H...

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      Red Leaves
    • Frances Fyfield
      Frances Fyfield
      Frances Fyfield is the pseudonym of Frances Hegarty. Fyfield is a British lawyer and crime-writer.Born and brought up in Derbyshire, Frances Hegarty was mostly educated in convent schools before reading English at Newcastle University. After graduation, she took a course in criminal law. She...

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      Safer Than Houses
    • Bill James
      Bill James (novelist)
      Bill James is a pseudonym of James Tucker, a Welsh novelist. He also writes under his own name and the pseudonyms David Craig and Judith Jones...

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      Wolves of Memory
    • Laura Wilson, A Thousand Lies
      A Thousand Lies
      A Thousand Lies is a novel by British crime writer Laura Wilson, first published in 2006. It was shortlisted for the first Duncan Lawrie Dagger, the new incarnation of the Gold Dagger....



2005
  • Gold Dagger: Arnaldur Indriðason
    Arnaldur Indriðason
    Arnaldur Indriðason is an Icelandic writer of crime fiction. He has repeatedly proved to be the most popular writer in Iceland in recent years — topping bestseller lists year after year...

    , Silence of the Grave
    Silence of the Grave
    Silence of the Grave is a crime novel by Icelandic writer Arnaldur Indriðason. Set in Reykjavík, the novel forms part of the author's regionally popular Murder Mystery Series, which star Detective Erlendur...

  • Silver Dagger: Barbara Nadel
    Barbara Nadel
    Barbara Nadel is an English crime-writer. Many of her books are set in Turkey.-Background:Born in the East End of London, Barbara Nadel trained as an actress before becoming a writer...

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    Deadly Web
    Deadly Web
    Deadly Web is a 2005 novel by English crime-writer Barbara Nadel. The novel is set in Turkey and features series protagonist Inspector Çetin İkmen. It won the CWA Silver Dagger in 2005, and has the distinction of being the last novel ever to do so, the award being abolished in 2006....

    • Karin Fossum
      Karin Fossum
      Karin Fossum is a Norwegian author of crime fiction, often referred to as the "Norwegian queen of crime".-Biography:Karin Mathisen was born in Sandefjord in Vestfold county, Norway. She currently lives in Oslo. Fossum debuted as a poet with Kanskje i morgen, her first collection published in...

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      Calling Out for You
      Calling Out For You
      Calling Out For You is a novel by Norwegian writer Karin Fossum. It features her series’ protagonist Inspector Sejer and his investigation into the vicious murder of an Indian bride recently moved to Norway to be with her husband....

    • Friedrich Glauser
      Friedrich Glauser
      Friedrich Glauser was a German-language Swiss writer. He was a morphine and opium addict for most of his life. In his first novel Gourrama, written between 1928 and 1930, he treated his own experiences at the French Foreign Legion...

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      In Matto's Realm
    • Carl Hiaasen
      Carl Hiaasen
      Carl Hiaasen is an American journalist, columnist and novelist.- Early years :Born in 1953 and raised in Plantation, Florida, of Norwegian heritage, Hiaasen was the first of four children and the son of a lawyer, Kermit Odel, and teacher, Patricia...

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      Skinny Dip
    • Fred Vargas
      Fred Vargas
      Fred Vargas is the pseudonym of the French historian, archaeologist and writer Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau . Her crime fiction policiers have won three International Dagger Awards from the Crime Writers Association, for three successive novels: in 2006, 2008 and 2009. She is the first author to...

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      Seeking Whom He May Devour
      Seeking Whom He May Devour
      Seeking Whom He May Devour is a crime novel by French writer Fred Vargas. The novel features her series protagonist Commissaire Adamsberg and concerns the supposed existence of werewolves in a remote French village. As with many of Vargas' novels in English translation, the English title bears no...



2004
  • Gold Dagger: Sara Paretsky
    Sara Paretsky
    Sara Paretsky is a modern American author of detective fiction.-Life and career:Paretsky was born in Ames, Iowa and raised in Kansas, graduating from the University of Kansas with a degree in political science. She did community service work on the south side of Chicago in 1966 and returned in...

    , Blacklist
    Blacklist (novel)
    Blacklist is a 2003 novel by crime writer Sara Paretsky featuring her popular protagonist, Private Investigator V. I. Warshawski. It won the 2004 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger....

  • Silver Dagger: John Harvey
    John Harvey (author)
    John Harvey is a British author of crime fiction most famous for his series of jazz-influenced Charlie Resnick novels, based in the City of Nottingham.-Writing Career:...

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    Flesh and Blood
    • Mo Hayder
      Mo Hayder
      Mo Hayder is a British author of crime and thriller fiction.She is the author of eight novels. Her debut, Birdman, was published in January 2000 and was an international bestseller. Her second novel, The Treatment, was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the 2002 WH Smith Thumping Good Read award....

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      Tokyo
      Tokyo (novel)
      Tokyo is a 2004 novel by British crime writer Mo Hayder. It was short-listed for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award, as well as several others...

    • Val McDermid
      Val McDermid
      Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels starring her most famous creation, Dr. Tony Hill.-Biography:...

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      The Torment of Others
      The Torment of Others
      The Torment of Others is a crime novel by Scottish author Val McDermid, and is the fourth entry in her popular Carol Jordan and Dr. Tony Hill series, which has been successfully adapted into the television series Wire in the Blood. The novel was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold...

    • James W. Nichol
      James W. Nichol
      James W. Nichol is a Canadian playwright and novelist. His first novel, Midnight Cab, won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel, and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger.-External links:*...

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      Midnight Cab
    • Laura Wilson, The Lover
      The Lover (novel)
      The Lover is a 2004 crime fiction novel written by Laura Wilson and first published in the United Kingdom by Orion Publishing Group on 17 June 2004...



2003
  • Gold Dagger: Minette Walters
    Minette Walters
    Minette Walters is an English crime writer.- Life and work :After her birth in Bishop’s Stortford to a serving army officer, Capt Samuel Jebb and his wife Colleen, the first 10 years of Minette’s life were spent moving between army bases in the north and south of England...

    , Fox Evil
    Fox Evil
    Fox Evil is a novel by British crime-writer Minette Walters. It won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger in 2003, making her one of the few writers to win the award more than once.- External links :**...

  • Silver Dagger: Morag Joss
    Morag Joss
    Morag Joss is an English-born Scottish writer.She is the author of six novels, including the Sara Selkirk series, and Half Broken Things, which won the Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger Award. She began writing in 1996 after a short story of hers was runner-up in a national competition...

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    Half-Broken Things
    Half-Broken Things
    Half Broken Things is a psychological thriller by English author Morag Joss. It won the CWA Silver Dagger in 2003.-Film adaptation:Half Broken Things was adapted for television in 2007, starring Penelope Wilton, Daniel Mays and Sinead Matthews...

    • Boris Akunin
      Boris Akunin
      Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili , a Russian writer. He is an essayist, literary translator and writer of detective fiction.-Life and career:...

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      The Winter Queen
      The Winter Queen (novel)
      The Winter Queen is the first novel from the Erast Fandorin series of historical detective novels, written by Russian author Boris Akunin...

    • Robert Littell
      Robert Littell (author)
      Robert Littell is an American novelist and journalist residing part of the time in France. He specializes in spy novels that often concern the CIA and the Soviet Union....

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      The Company
      The Company (novel)
      The Company: A Novel of the CIA is a work of fiction written by American novelist Robert Littell and published by Penguin Press in 2002. The plot interweaves the professional lives of both historical and fictional characters in the field of international espionage between June 1950 and August...

    • Carlo Lucarelli
      Carlo Lucarelli
      Carlo Lucarelli is an Italian crime-writer, TV presenter, and magazine editor. He was shortlisted for the Gold Dagger in 2003 for the novel Almost Blue.-Biography:...

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      Almost Blue
    • Robert Wilson
      Robert Wilson (crime novelist)
      Robert Wilson is a British crime-writer currently resident in Portugal. He is the son of an RAF fighter pilot, and has a degree in English from Oxford. Wilson is the author of the Bruce Medway series, set on the Gold Coast of Africa, and the Javier Falcon series, set largely in Seville, Spain...

      , The Blind Man of Seville
      The Blind Man of Seville
      The Blind Man of Seville is a 2003 crime novel and thriller by British writer Robert Wilson. The novel is set in the Spanish city of Seville, and is the first book in the projected quartet featuring protagonist Javier Falcon...



2002
  • Gold Dagger: José Carlos Somoza
    José Carlos Somoza
    José Carlos Somoza is a Spanish author born on November 13, 1959 in Havana, Cuba. In 1960 his family moved to Spain after being exiled for political reasons...

    , The Athenian Murders
    The Athenian Murders
    The Athenian Murders is a novel written by Spanish author José Carlos Somoza. Originally published in Spain under the title La caverna de las ideas in 2000, it was translated into English in 2002 by Sonia Soto...

  • Silver Dagger: James Crumley
    James Crumley
    James Arthur Crumley was the author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays...

    , The Final Country
    • Mark Billingham
      Mark Billingham
      Mark Philip David Billingham is an English novelist whose series of "Tom Thorne" crime novels are best-sellers in that particular genre. He is also a television screenwriter and has become a familiar face as an actor and comic....

      , Scaredy Cat
    • James Lee Burke
      James Lee Burke
      James Lee Burke is an American author of mysteries, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won an Edgar Award for Black Cherry Blues and Cimarron Rose . The Robicheaux character has been portrayed twice on screen, first by Alec Baldwin and then Tommy Lee Jones...

      , Jolie Blon's Bounce
    • Michael Connelly
      Michael Connelly
      Michael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books, which have been translated into 36 languages, have garnered him many awards...

      , City of Bones
      City of Bones (Michael Connelly novel)
      City of Bones is the twelfth novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the eighth featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch. It was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times.-Plot summary:...

    • Minette Walters
      Minette Walters
      Minette Walters is an English crime writer.- Life and work :After her birth in Bishop’s Stortford to a serving army officer, Capt Samuel Jebb and his wife Colleen, the first 10 years of Minette’s life were spent moving between army bases in the north and south of England...

      , Acid Row
      Acid Row
      Acid Row is a 2001 novel by crime-writer Minette Walters. The novel examines contemporary reactions to paedophilia and resulting urban rioting, and was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger.-External links:**...



2001
  • Gold Dagger: Henning Mankell
    Henning Mankell
    Henning Mankell is a Swedish crime writer, children's author, leftist activist and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most famous creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander.-Life and career:...

    , Sidetracked
  • Silver Dagger: Giles Blunt
    Giles Blunt
    Giles Blunt is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter born in in Windsor, Ontario. His first novel, Cold Eye, was a psychological thriller set in the New York art world, which was made into the French movie Les Couleurs du diable ....

    , Forty Words for Sorrow
    Forty Words for Sorrow
    Forty Words for Sorrow is a crime novel from Canadian novelist Giles Blunt, and the first to feature his protagonists John Cardinal and Lise Delorme. Blunt had previous published one other novel, Cold Eye, but this was his first crime novel, and the first to be a critical and commercial success....

    • Stephen Booth
      Stephen Booth (writer)
      Stephen Booth is an English crime-writer. He is the author of the Derbyshire-set Cooper and Fry series.-Early and Personal Life:...

      , Dancing with the Virgins
    • Denise Danks
      Denise Danks
      Denise Danks is an English novelist, journalist and screenwriter. She has twice been shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger. She is also a past winner of the Chandler/Fulbright award, and is notable for being the first female writer to receive it. Previous winners of the award...

      , Baby Love
    • George Pelecanos
      George Pelecanos
      George P. Pelecanos is a Greek-American author. Many of his works are in the genre of detective fiction and set primarily in his hometown of Washington, D.C. He is also a film and television producer and a television writer...

      , Right as Rain
      Right as Rain
      Right as Rain is a 2001 crime novel by George Pelecanos. It is set in Washington DC and focuses on private investigator Derek Strange and his new partner Terry Quinn...

    • Scott Phillips
      Scott Phillips (writer)
      Scott Phillips is an American writer of crime fiction in the noir tradition. He was born in Wichita, Kansas, and lived for several years in France, working as a translator and photographer; then in California as a screenwriter, co-writing a 1996 straight-to-video thriller called Crosscut.His...

      , The Ice Harvest
      The Ice Harvest (novel)
      The Ice Harvest is a debut novel by Scott Phillips. The story, set in 1979, was published to wide acclaim in 2000.- Plot summary :It is Christmas Eve in Wichita, Kansas and snowing steadily. The streets are deserted, traffic is light and most people have returned home for the start of the festivities...



2000
  • Gold Dagger: Jonathan Lethem
    Jonathan Lethem
    Jonathan Allen Lethem is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. It was followed by three more science fiction novels...

    , Motherless Brooklyn
    Motherless Brooklyn
    Motherless Brooklyn is a Jonathan Lethem detective story set in Brooklyn and published in 1999. Lethem's protagonist, Lionel Essrog, has Tourette syndrome, a disorder marked by involuntary tics...

  • Silver Dagger: Donna Leon
    Donna Leon
    Donna Leon is the American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice and featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti.Leon has lived in Venice for over 25 years...

    , Friends In High Places
    Friends in High Places
    Friends in High Places is the fourth album in the live praise and worship series of Christian Contemporary music by Hillsong Church.-Making of the album:...

    • James Lee Burke
      James Lee Burke
      James Lee Burke is an American author of mysteries, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won an Edgar Award for Black Cherry Blues and Cimarron Rose . The Robicheaux character has been portrayed twice on screen, first by Alec Baldwin and then Tommy Lee Jones...

      , Purple Cane Road
    • Eliot Pattison
      Eliot Pattison
      Eliot Pattison is an American international lawyer and author about international trade, as well as an award-winning mystery novelist....

      , The Skull Mantra
    • Lucy Wadham
      Lucy Wadham
      Lucy Wadham is British a writer of crime and thriller novels, but her most widely reviewed work is her autobiographical account of her life in France....

      , Lost
    • Martin Cruz Smith
      Martin Cruz Smith
      Martin Cruz Smith is an American mystery novelist.-Early life and education:Born Martin William Smith in Reading, Pennsylvania, he was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in creative writing in 1964...

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      Havana Bay
      Havana Bay (novel)
      Havana Bay is a crime novel by Martin Cruz Smith, set in Cuba. It is the fourth novel to feature Investigator Arkady Renko, and it won the 1999 Hammett Prize...


1990s

1999
  • Gold Dagger: Robert Wilson
    Robert Wilson (crime novelist)
    Robert Wilson is a British crime-writer currently resident in Portugal. He is the son of an RAF fighter pilot, and has a degree in English from Oxford. Wilson is the author of the Bruce Medway series, set on the Gold Coast of Africa, and the Javier Falcon series, set largely in Seville, Spain...

    , A Small Death in Lisbon
    A Small Death in Lisbon
    A Small Death in Lisbon is a crime novel by Robert Wilson. The novel, set in Portugal, consists of two narratives: one is the contemporary investigation by Inspector José "Zé" Coelho into the death of a young girl, and the other begins in World War II and examines events during German operations in...

  • Silver Dagger: Adrian Mathews, Vienna Blood
    • Val McDermid
      Val McDermid
      Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels starring her most famous creation, Dr. Tony Hill.-Biography:...

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      A Place of Execution
      A Place of Execution
      A Place of Execution is an acclaimed crime novel by Val McDermid, often cited as her magnum opus, first published in 1999. The novel won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 2001 Dilys Award, was shortlisted for both the Gold Dagger and the Edgar Award, and was chosen by the New York Times as one...

    • Ian Rankin
      Ian Rankin
      Ian Rankin, OBE, DL , is a Scottish crime writer. His best known books are the Inspector Rebus novels. He has also written several pieces of literary criticism.-Background:He attended Beath High School, Cowdenbeath...

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      Dead Souls
      Dead Souls (1999 novel)
      Dead Souls is a 1999 crime novel by Ian Rankin. It is the tenth of the Inspector Rebus novels. It was the third episode in the Rebus television series starring John Hannah, airing in 2001.-Plot summary:...

    • Michael Connelly
      Michael Connelly
      Michael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books, which have been translated into 36 languages, have garnered him many awards...

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      Angels Flight
      Angels Flight (novel)
      Angels Flight is the eighth novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the sixth featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch.-Plot summary:...

    • Denise Danks
      Denise Danks
      Denise Danks is an English novelist, journalist and screenwriter. She has twice been shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger. She is also a past winner of the Chandler/Fulbright award, and is notable for being the first female writer to receive it. Previous winners of the award...

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      Phreak
    • Frances Fyfield
      Frances Fyfield
      Frances Fyfield is the pseudonym of Frances Hegarty. Fyfield is a British lawyer and crime-writer.Born and brought up in Derbyshire, Frances Hegarty was mostly educated in convent schools before reading English at Newcastle University. After graduation, she took a course in criminal law. She...

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      Staring at the Light


1998
  • Gold Dagger: James Lee Burke
    James Lee Burke
    James Lee Burke is an American author of mysteries, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won an Edgar Award for Black Cherry Blues and Cimarron Rose . The Robicheaux character has been portrayed twice on screen, first by Alec Baldwin and then Tommy Lee Jones...

    , Sunset Limited
  • Silver Dagger: Nicholas Blincoe
    Nicholas Blincoe
    Nicholas Blincoe is an English author, critic and screenwriter. He is the author of six novels, Acid Casuals , Jello Salad , Manchester Slingback , The Dope Priest , White Mice , Burning Paris...

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    Manchester Slingback
    Manchester Slingback
    Manchester Slingback is a crime novel by Nicholas Blincoe, set in the Canal Street area of Manchester, the city's Gay Village. The novel contrasts the underground status of the village during the 1980s, when the city's Chief Constable was James Anderton, with its flourishing as a tourist attraction...

    • Michael Dibdin
      Michael Dibdin
      Michael Dibdin , was a British crime writer.-Life:Dibdin was born in Wolverhampton, the son of a physicist, and was brought up from the age of seven in Lisburn, Northern Ireland where he attended Friends' School...

      ,
      A Long Finish
      A Long Finish
      A Long Finish is a novel by Michael Dibdin, and is the sixth entry in the popular Aurelio Zen series.- Synopsis :After his adventures under sun-drenched Neapolitan skies in Cosi Fan Tutti, Aurelio Zen finds himself reluctantly back in Rome, sneezing in the damp wine cellar of a retired but still...

    • Geoffrey Archer, Fire Hawk
    • Reginald Hill
      Reginald Hill
      Reginald Charles Hill is an English crime writer, and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement.- Biography :...

      ,
      On Beulah Height
    • George Pelecanos
      George Pelecanos
      George P. Pelecanos is a Greek-American author. Many of his works are in the genre of detective fiction and set primarily in his hometown of Washington, D.C. He is also a film and television producer and a television writer...

      ,
      King Suckerman


1997
  • Gold Dagger: Ian Rankin
    Ian Rankin
    Ian Rankin, OBE, DL , is a Scottish crime writer. His best known books are the Inspector Rebus novels. He has also written several pieces of literary criticism.-Background:He attended Beath High School, Cowdenbeath...

    , Black and Blue
    Black and Blue (novel)
    Black and Blue is a 1997 crime novel by the Scots author Ian Rankin. The eighth of the Inspector Rebus novels, it was the first to be adapted in the Rebus television series starring John Hannah, airing in 2000....

  • Silver Dagger: Janet Evanovich
    Janet Evanovich
    Janet Evanovich is an American writer. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum, a lingerie buyer from Trenton, New Jersey, who becomes a bounty hunter to...

    ,
    Three to Get Deadly
    Three to Get Deadly (novel)
    Three to Get Deadly is the third novel by Janet Evanovich featuring the bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and was first published in 1997. It won the 1998 Dilys Award.-Plot introduction:...

    • Frank Lean, The Reluctant Investigator


1996
  • Gold Dagger: Ben Elton
    Ben Elton
    Benjamin Charles "Ben" Elton is an English comedian, author, playwright and director. He was a leading figure in the British alternative comedy movement of the 1980s, as a writer on such cult series as The Young Ones and Blackadder, as well as also a successful stand-up comedian on stage and TV....

    , Popcorn
  • Silver Dagger: Peter Lovesey
    Peter Lovesey
    Peter Lovesey is a British writer of historical and contemporary crime novels and short stories. His best-known series characters are Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian-era police detective based in London, and Peter Diamond, a modern-day police detective in Bath...

    ,
    Bloodhounds
    • Jessica Mann
      Jessica Mann
      Jessica Mann is a British writer. As a novelist she specialises in the mystery and suspense genres, having published 20 crime novels since 1971.She has also written several non-fiction books, including Out Of Harm's Way, the story of the overseas evacuation of children during WW2.Mann was educated...

      ,
      A Private Enquiry


1995
  • Gold Dagger: Val McDermid
    Val McDermid
    Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels starring her most famous creation, Dr. Tony Hill.-Biography:...

    , The Mermaids Singing
    The Mermaids Singing
    The Mermaids Singing is a crime novel by Scottish author Val McDermid, the first featuring her recurring protagonist, Dr. Tony Hill. It was adapted into the pilot episode of ITV1's television series based on McDermid's work, Wire in the Blood, starring Robson Green and Hermione Norris.The title is...

  • Silver Dagger: Peter Lovesey
    Peter Lovesey
    Peter Lovesey is a British writer of historical and contemporary crime novels and short stories. His best-known series characters are Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian-era police detective based in London, and Peter Diamond, a modern-day police detective in Bath...

    ,
    The Summons
    • Elizabeth Ironside, A Very Private Enterprise
    • Minette Walters
      Minette Walters
      Minette Walters is an English crime writer.- Life and work :After her birth in Bishop’s Stortford to a serving army officer, Capt Samuel Jebb and his wife Colleen, the first 10 years of Minette’s life were spent moving between army bases in the north and south of England...

      ,
      The Dark Room
      The Dark Room (Minette Walters novel)
      The Dark Room is a crime novel by English writer Minette Walters. The story was shortlisted for a CWA Gold Dagger.-Television adaptation:...



1994
  • Gold Dagger: Minette Walters
    Minette Walters
    Minette Walters is an English crime writer.- Life and work :After her birth in Bishop’s Stortford to a serving army officer, Capt Samuel Jebb and his wife Colleen, the first 10 years of Minette’s life were spent moving between army bases in the north and south of England...

    , The Scold's Bridle
    The Scold's Bridle
    The Scold's Bridle is a crime novel by English writer Minette Walters. The book, Walters' third, won a CWA Gold Dagger.-Synopsis:Mathilda Gillespie, an eccentric recluse known for her incredible meanness of nature, is found dead in her bathtub, her wrists slashed and her head locked inside a...

  • Silver Dagger: Peter Høeg
    Peter Høeg
    Peter Høeg is a Danish writer of fiction. He received a Master of Arts in Literature from the University of Copenhagen in 1984.-Early life:Høeg was born in Copenhagen, Denmark...

    ,
    Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
    • Val McDermid
      Val McDermid
      Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels starring her most famous creation, Dr. Tony Hill.-Biography:...

      ,
      Crack Down
    • Sara Paretsky
      Sara Paretsky
      Sara Paretsky is a modern American author of detective fiction.-Life and career:Paretsky was born in Ames, Iowa and raised in Kansas, graduating from the University of Kansas with a degree in political science. She did community service work on the south side of Chicago in 1966 and returned in...

      ,
      Tunnel Vision


1993
  • Gold Dagger: Patricia Cornwell
    Patricia Cornwell
    Patricia Cornwell is a contemporary American crime writer. She is widely known for writing a popular series of novels featuring the heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a medical examiner.-Early life:...

    , Cruel and Unusual
    Cruel and Unusual (novel)
    Cruel and Unusual is a crime fiction novel by Patricia Cornwell. It is the fourth book in the Dr. Kay Scarpetta series.-Plot summary:Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is called in to autopsy the body of convicted murderer Ronnie Waddell after his execution...

  • Silver Dagger: Sarah Dunant
    Sarah Dunant
    Sarah Dunant is the author of many international bestsellers, most recently Sacred Hearts, the completion of her Italian historical trilogy....

    ,
    Fatlands
    • Robert Richards, The Hand of Strange Children
    • Janet Neel, Death Among the Dons


1992
  • Gold Dagger: Colin Dexter
    Colin Dexter
    Norman Colin Dexter, OBE, is an English crime writer, known for his Inspector Morse novels which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as a television series from 1987 to 2000.-Early life and career:...

    , The Way Through the Woods
    The Way Through the Woods
    The Way Through the Woods is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the tenth novel in the Inspector Morse series. It received the Gold Dagger Award in 1992....

  • Silver Dagger: Liza Cody
    Liza Cody
    Liza Cody is an English crime fiction writer.She is the author of twelve novels and many short stories. Her Anna Lee series introduced the professional female private detective to British mystery fiction. The entire Anna Lee series was adapted for television and broadcast in both the U.K...

    ,
    Bucket Nut


1991
  • Gold Dagger: Barbara Vine
    Ruth Rendell
    Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, , who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is an English crime writer, author of psychological thrillers and murder mysteries....

    , King Solomon's Carpet
    King Solomon's Carpet
    King Solomon's Carpet is a novel by Barbara Vine, pseudonym of Ruth Rendell. It is about the London Underground and the people frequenting it. Vine's novel is inhabited by ordinary passengers, tube aficionados, pickpockets, buskers, vigilantes, and children who go "sledging" on the roofs of cars...

  • Silver Dagger: Frances Fyfield
    Frances Fyfield
    Frances Fyfield is the pseudonym of Frances Hegarty. Fyfield is a British lawyer and crime-writer.Born and brought up in Derbyshire, Frances Hegarty was mostly educated in convent schools before reading English at Newcastle University. After graduation, she took a course in criminal law. She...

    ,
    Deep Sleep
    • Janet Neel, Death of a Partner
    • Michael Dibdin
      Michael Dibdin
      Michael Dibdin , was a British crime writer.-Life:Dibdin was born in Wolverhampton, the son of a physicist, and was brought up from the age of seven in Lisburn, Northern Ireland where he attended Friends' School...

      ,
      Dirty Tricks


1990
  • Gold Dagger: Reginald Hill
    Reginald Hill
    Reginald Charles Hill is an English crime writer, and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement.- Biography :...

    , Bones and Silence
    Bones and Silence
    Bones and Silence is a crime novel by Reginald Hill, the eleventh novel in the Dalziel and Pascoe series. The novel received the Gold Dagger Award in 1990.-Publication history:...

  • Silver Dagger: Mike Phillips
    Mike Phillips (writer)
    Mike Phillips is a British writer of Guyanese descent. He was born in Georgetown, Guyana and came to Britain in 1956 as a child. He graduated from the University of Essex....

    ,
    The Late Candidate
    • John Harvey
      John Harvey (author)
      John Harvey is a British author of crime fiction most famous for his series of jazz-influenced Charlie Resnick novels, based in the City of Nottingham.-Writing Career:...

      ,
      Rough Treatment

1980s

1989
  • Gold Dagger: Colin Dexter
    Colin Dexter
    Norman Colin Dexter, OBE, is an English crime writer, known for his Inspector Morse novels which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as a television series from 1987 to 2000.-Early life and career:...

    , The Wench is Dead
    The Wench is Dead
    The Wench is Dead is a historical crime novel by Colin Dexter, the eighth novel in the Inspector Morse series. The novel received the Gold Dagger Award in 1989.-Plot introduction:...

  • Silver Dagger: Desmond Lowden, The Shadow Run


1988
  • Gold Dagger: Michael Dibdin
    Michael Dibdin
    Michael Dibdin , was a British crime writer.-Life:Dibdin was born in Wolverhampton, the son of a physicist, and was brought up from the age of seven in Lisburn, Northern Ireland where he attended Friends' School...

    , Ratking
    Ratking (novel)
    Ratking is a novel by Michael Dibdin, and is the first book in the popular Aurelio Zen series, introducing readers to the commissario's morally shady world. On publication it won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for fiction.-Plot:...

  • Silver Dagger: Sara Paretsky
    Sara Paretsky
    Sara Paretsky is a modern American author of detective fiction.-Life and career:Paretsky was born in Ames, Iowa and raised in Kansas, graduating from the University of Kansas with a degree in political science. She did community service work on the south side of Chicago in 1966 and returned in...

    ,
    Toxic Shock


1987
  • Gold Dagger: Barbara Vine
    Ruth Rendell
    Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, , who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is an English crime writer, author of psychological thrillers and murder mysteries....

    , A Fatal Inversion
    A Fatal Inversion
    A Fatal Inversion is a 1987 novel by Ruth Rendell, written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. The novel won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger in that year and, in 1987, was also shortlisted for the Dagger of Daggers, a special award to select the best Gold Dagger winner of the award's 50...

  • Silver Dagger: Scott Turow
    Scott Turow
    Scott F. Turow is an American author and a practicing lawyer. Turow has written eight fiction and two nonfiction books, which have been translated into over 20 languages and have sold over 25 million copies...

    ,
    Presumed Innocent
    Presumed Innocent
    Presumed Innocent, published in 1987, is Scott Turow's first novel, which tells the story of a prosecutor charged with the murder of his colleague, an attractive and intelligent prosecutor, Carolyn Polhemus. It is told in the first person by the accused, Rǒzat "Rusty" Sabich...

    • Liza Cody
      Liza Cody
      Liza Cody is an English crime fiction writer.She is the author of twelve novels and many short stories. Her Anna Lee series introduced the professional female private detective to British mystery fiction. The entire Anna Lee series was adapted for television and broadcast in both the U.K...

      ,
      Under Contract


1986
  • Gold Dagger: Ruth Rendell
    Ruth Rendell
    Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, , who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is an English crime writer, author of psychological thrillers and murder mysteries....

    , Live Flesh
    Live Flesh
    Live Flesh, is a psychological thriller by British author Ruth Rendell, published in 1986. It won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year, and has also been loosely adapted into a critically acclaimed film of the same name by Pedro Almodóvar.-Plot summary:The...

  • Silver Dagger: P. D. James
    P. D. James
    Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL , commonly known as P. D. James, is an English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh.-Life and career:James...

    ,
    A Taste for Death


1985
  • Gold Dagger: Paula Gosling
    Paula Gosling
    Paula Gosling is a US-born crime writer. She has lived in the UK since the 1960s. Gosling started her writing career as a copy-writer. She published her first novel, A Running Duck, in 1974. It won the John Creasey Award for the best first novel of the year. She has also received the Gold Dagger...

    , Monkey Puzzle
  • Silver Dagger: Dorothy Simpson, Last Seen Alive
    • Andrew Taylor
      Andrew Taylor (author)
      Andrew Taylor is a British author best known for his crime novels, which include the Dougal series, the Lydmouth series, the Roth Trilogy and the historical novel The American Boy.-Biography:...

      ,
      Our Father's Lies
    • Jill Paton Walsh
      Jill Paton Walsh
      Jill Paton Walsh, CBE, FRSL is an English novelist and children's writer.Born as Gillian Bliss and educated at St. Michael's Convent, North Finchley, London, she read English Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford...

      ,
      A Piece of Justice


1984
  • Gold Dagger: B. M. Gill
    Barbara Margaret Trimble
    Barbara Margaret Trimble was a British writer of crime and thriller novels. She was born in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales and wrote under pen names B. M. Gill and Margaret Blake.-Novels Barbara Margaret Trimble (1921–1995) was a British writer of crime and thriller novels. She was born in Holyhead,...

    , The Twelfth Juror
  • Silver Dagger: Ruth Rendell
    Ruth Rendell
    Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, , who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is an English crime writer, author of psychological thrillers and murder mysteries....

    ,
    The Tree of Hands
    The Tree of Hands
    The Tree of Hands is a 1984 suspense novel by the author Ruth Rendell. It won the CWA Silver Dagger in 1984, and was short listed for the MWA Edgar Award upon publication in America. The book has been filmed twice...



1983
  • Gold Dagger: John Hutton
    John Hutton (author)
    John Hutton is a British writer of crime and thriller novels. He was born in Manchester and educated at Burnage Grammar School and the University of Wales. He has been a teacher and a senior lecturer in English.- Bibliography :...

    , Accidental Crimes
  • Silver Dagger: William McIlvanney
    William McIlvanney
    William McIlvanney is a writer of crime stories, novels, and poetry. McIlvanney is a champion of gritty yet poetic literature; his works Laidlaw, The Papers of Tony Veitch, and Walking Wounded are all known for their portrayal of Glasgow in the 1970s.- Life and career :McIlvanney was born in the...

    ,
    The Papers of Tony Vietch


1982
  • Gold Dagger: Peter Lovesey
    Peter Lovesey
    Peter Lovesey is a British writer of historical and contemporary crime novels and short stories. His best-known series characters are Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian-era police detective based in London, and Peter Diamond, a modern-day police detective in Bath...

    , The False Inspector Dew
    The False Inspector Dew
    The False Inspector Dew is a humorous crime novel by Peter Lovesey. It won the Gold Dagger award by the Crime Writers' Association in 1982 and has featured on many "Best of" list since.-Plot introduction:...

  • Silver Dagger: S. T. Haymon, Ritual Murder


1981
  • Gold Dagger: Martin Cruz Smith
    Martin Cruz Smith
    Martin Cruz Smith is an American mystery novelist.-Early life and education:Born Martin William Smith in Reading, Pennsylvania, he was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in creative writing in 1964...

    , Gorky Park
    Gorky Park (novel)
    Gorky Park is a 1981 crime novel written by Martin Cruz Smith set in the Soviet Union. It follows Arkady Renko, a chief investigator for the Militsiya, who is assigned to a case involving three corpses found in Gorky Park, an amusement park in Moscow, who have had their faces and fingertips cut off...

  • Silver Dagger: Colin Dexter
    Colin Dexter
    Norman Colin Dexter, OBE, is an English crime writer, known for his Inspector Morse novels which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as a television series from 1987 to 2000.-Early life and career:...

    ,
    The Dead of Jericho
    The Dead of Jericho
    The Dead of Jericho is a work of English detective fiction by Colin Dexter, as part of the Inspector Morse series.-Plot summary:Detective Chief Inspector E. Morse of the Thames Valley Police meets Anne Scott at a party hosted by Mrs Murdoch in North Oxford. Six months later Anne Scott is found...



1980
  • Gold Dagger: H. R. F. Keating
    H. R. F. Keating
    Henry Reymond Fitzwalter "Harry" Keating was an English crime fiction writer most notable for his series of novels featuring Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID.-Life:...

    , The Murder of the Maharaja
  • Silver Dagger: Ellis Peters
    Edith Pargeter
    Edith Mary Pargeter, OBE, BEM , also known by her nom de plume Ellis Peters, was a British author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both...

    ,
    Monk's Hood
    Monk's Hood
    Monk's Hood is a medieval mystery novel by Ellis Peters, first published in 1980. It was adapted for television in 1994 by Central for ITV. It is the third novel in the Brother Cadfael series.-Plot summary:...


1970s

1979
  • Gold Dagger: Dick Francis
    Dick Francis
    Richard Stanley "Dick" Francis CBE was an English jockey and crime writer, many of whose novels centre around horse racing.- Personal life :...

    , Whip Hand
    Whip Hand
    Whip Hand is a crime novel by Dick Francis, the second novel in the Sid Halley series. The novel received Gold Dagger Award for Best Novel of 1979 and the Edgar Award for Best Novel of 1980...

  • Silver Dagger: Colin Dexter
    Colin Dexter
    Norman Colin Dexter, OBE, is an English crime writer, known for his Inspector Morse novels which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as a television series from 1987 to 2000.-Early life and career:...

    ,
    Service of All the Dead
    Service of All the Dead
    Service of All the Dead is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the fourth novel in Inspector Morse series.This time Inspector Morse brings the imposition on himself. He could have been vacationing in Greece instead of investigating a murder that the police have long since written off. But he finds the...



1978
  • Gold Dagger: Lionel Davidson
    Lionel Davidson
    Lionel Davidson was an English novelist who wrote a number of acclaimed spy thrillers.-Life and career:Lionel Davidson was born in 1922 in Hull, Yorkshire, one of nine children of an immigrant Jewish tailor. He left school early and worked in the London offices of the Spectator magazine as an...

    , The Chelsea Murders
    The Chelsea Murders
    The Chelsea Murders is a thriller by Lionel Davidson. The book won the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award.-Plot summary:...

  • Silver Dagger: Peter Lovesey
    Peter Lovesey
    Peter Lovesey is a British writer of historical and contemporary crime novels and short stories. His best-known series characters are Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian-era police detective based in London, and Peter Diamond, a modern-day police detective in Bath...

    ,
    Waxwork


1977
  • Gold Dagger: John le Carré
    John le Carré
    David John Moore Cornwell , who writes under the name John le Carré, is an author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and the 1960s, Cornwell worked for MI5 and MI6, and began writing novels under the pseudonym "John le Carré"...

    , The Honourable Schoolboy
    The Honourable Schoolboy
    The Honourable Schoolboy is a spy novel by John le Carré. George Smiley tries to reconstruct an intelligence service and to run a successful offensive espionage operation to save the service from falling to the "war hawks" in government...

  • Silver Dagger: William McIlvanney
    William McIlvanney
    William McIlvanney is a writer of crime stories, novels, and poetry. McIlvanney is a champion of gritty yet poetic literature; his works Laidlaw, The Papers of Tony Veitch, and Walking Wounded are all known for their portrayal of Glasgow in the 1970s.- Life and career :McIlvanney was born in the...

    ,
    Laidlaw
    Laidlaw (novel)
    Laidlaw is the first novel of a series of crime books by William McIlvanney. It features DI Laidlaw and DC Harkness, his assigned assistant, in their attempts to find the brutal sex related murderer of a Glasgow teenager...



1976
  • Gold Dagger: Ruth Rendell
    Ruth Rendell
    Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, , who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is an English crime writer, author of psychological thrillers and murder mysteries....

    , A Demon in My View
    A Demon in My View
    A Demon in my View is a novel by British author Ruth Rendell. First published in 1976, it won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year, gaining Rendell the first of six Dagger awards she received during her career, more than any other writer....

  • Silver Dagger: James H. McClure
    James H. McClure
    James Howe McClure was a British author and journalist best known for his Kramer and Zondi mysteries set in South Africa....

    ,
    Rogue Eagle


1975
  • Gold Dagger: Nicholas Meyer
    Nicholas Meyer
    Nicholas Meyer is an American screenwriter, producer, director and novelist, known best for his best-selling novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and for directing the films Time After Time, two of the Star Trek feature film series, and the 1983 television movie The Day After.Meyer graduated from...

    , The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
    The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
    The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. is a 1974 novel by American writer Nicholas Meyer. It is written as a pastiche of a Sherlock Holmes adventure, and was made into a film of the same name in 1976....

  • Silver Dagger: P. D. James
    P. D. James
    Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL , commonly known as P. D. James, is an English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh.-Life and career:James...

    ,
    The Black Tower
    The Black Tower
    The Black Tower is an Adam Dalgliesh novel by P.D. James, published in 1975.-Plot outline:"Adam Dalgliesh, convalescing after a severe illness, arrives at Toynton Grange , the rest home for the young disabled, just too late to find out why his old friend Father Baddeley had sent for him...



1974
  • Gold Dagger: Anthony Price
    Anthony Price
    Anthony Price is an author of espionage thrillers.-Life and work:Price attended The King's School, Canterbury and served in the British Army from 1947 to 1949, reaching the rank of Captain. He then studied at Merton College, Oxford until 1952, earning the MA degree...

    , Other Paths to Glory
  • Silver Dagger: Francis Clifford
    Francis Clifford (author)
    Francis Clifford is a pen name of Arthur Leonard Bell Thompson, a British writer of crime and thriller novels. He was born in Bristol, served with great distinction in the Second World War, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.-Novels:*Honour the Shrine *The Trembling Earth *Overdue...

    ,
    The Grosvenor Square Goodbye


1973
  • Gold Dagger: Robert Littell
    Robert Littell (author)
    Robert Littell is an American novelist and journalist residing part of the time in France. He specializes in spy novels that often concern the CIA and the Soviet Union....

    , The Defection of A.J. Lewinter
  • Silver Dagger: Gwendoline Butler
    Gwendoline Butler
    Gwendoline Butler is a writer of mystery fiction credited for inventing the "woman's police procedural" and known for her series of Inspector John Coffin novels. She has also published a series featuring female detective Charmian Daniels under the pseudonym Jennie Melville...

    ,
    A Coffin for Pandora


1972
  • Gold Dagger: Eric Ambler
    Eric Ambler
    Eric Clifford Ambler OBE was an influential British author of spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. Ambler also used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda.-Life:...

    , The Levanter
  • Silver Dagger: Victor Canning
    Victor Canning
    Victor Canning was a prolific writer of novels and thrillers who flourished in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, but whose reputation has faded since his death in 1986...

    ,
    The Rainbird Pattern
    The Rainbird Pattern
    The Rainbird Pattern is a 1972 novel by Victor Canning.It was adapted for the screen by Ernest Lehman in 1976 and was directed by Alfred Hitchcock under the title Family Plot....



1971
  • Gold Dagger: James H. McClure
    James H. McClure
    James Howe McClure was a British author and journalist best known for his Kramer and Zondi mysteries set in South Africa....

    , The Steam Pig
  • Silver Dagger: P. D. James
    P. D. James
    Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL , commonly known as P. D. James, is an English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh.-Life and career:James...

    ,
    Shroud for a Nightingale
    Shroud for a Nightingale
    Shroud for a Nightingale is a 1971 detective novel written by PD James in her Adam Dalgliesh series. Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate the death of two student nurses at the hospital nursing school of Nightingale House...



1970
  • Gold Dagger: Joan Fleming
    Joan Fleming
    Joan Fleming was a British writer of crime and thriller novels. Her novel The Deeds of Dr Deadcert was made into the film Rx for Murder , and she won the Gold Dagger award twice, for When I Grow Rich and Young Man I Think You're Dying .-Family background and early life:She was born at Horwich,...

    , Young Man I Think You're Dying
  • Silver Dagger: Anthony Price
    Anthony Price
    Anthony Price is an author of espionage thrillers.-Life and work:Price attended The King's School, Canterbury and served in the British Army from 1947 to 1949, reaching the rank of Captain. He then studied at Merton College, Oxford until 1952, earning the MA degree...

    ,
    The Labyrinth Makers

1960s

1969
  • Gold Dagger: Peter Dickinson
    Peter Dickinson
    Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE is an English author and poet who has written a wide variety of books, notably children's books and detective stories, over a long and distinguished career.-Life and work:...

    , A Pride of Heroes
  • Silver Dagger: Francis Clifford
    Francis Clifford (author)
    Francis Clifford is a pen name of Arthur Leonard Bell Thompson, a British writer of crime and thriller novels. He was born in Bristol, served with great distinction in the Second World War, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.-Novels:*Honour the Shrine *The Trembling Earth *Overdue...

    ,
    Another Way of Dying
    • Best Foreign: Rex Stout
      Rex Stout
      Rex Todhunter Stout was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. Stout is best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the...

      ,
      The Father Hunt
      The Father Hunt
      The Father Hunt is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1968. "This is the first Nero Wolfe novel in nearly two years," the front flap of the dust jacket reads, "an unusual interval for the productive Rex Stout, who celebrated his eightieth birthday in...



1968
  • Gold Dagger: Peter Dickinson
    Peter Dickinson
    Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE is an English author and poet who has written a wide variety of books, notably children's books and detective stories, over a long and distinguished career.-Life and work:...

    , Skin Deep
    • Nicholas Blake
      Cecil Day-Lewis
      Cecil Day-Lewis CBE was an Irish poet and the Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake...

      , The Private Wound
    • Best Foreign: Sébastien Japrisot
      Sébastien Japrisot
      Sébastien Japrisot was a French author, screenwriter and film director, born in Marseille. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name...

      , The Lady in the Car


1967
  • Gold Dagger: Emma Lathen
    Emma Lathen
    Emma Lathen is the pen name of two American businesswomen: an economist Mary Jane Latsis and an economic analyst Martha Henissart ,who received her B.A. in physics from Mount Holyoke College in 1950....

    , Murder Against the Grain
    • Colin Watson
      Colin Watson (writer)
      Colin Watson was a British writer of detective fiction and the creator of characters such as Inspector Purbright and Lucilla Teatime. He is most famous for the twelve Flaxborough novels, typified by their comic and dry wit and set in a fictional small town in England which is closely based on...

      , Lonely Heart 4122
    • Best British: Eric Ambler
      Eric Ambler
      Eric Clifford Ambler OBE was an influential British author of spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. Ambler also used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda.-Life:...

      , Dirty Story


1966
  • Gold Dagger: Lionel Davidson
    Lionel Davidson
    Lionel Davidson was an English novelist who wrote a number of acclaimed spy thrillers.-Life and career:Lionel Davidson was born in 1922 in Hull, Yorkshire, one of nine children of an immigrant Jewish tailor. He left school early and worked in the London offices of the Spectator magazine as an...

    , A Long Way to Shiloh
    A Long Way to Shiloh
    A Long Way to Shiloh is a thriller by Lionel Davidson. The book won the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award.-Plot summary:...

    • John Bingham
      John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris
      John Michael Ward Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris was an English novelist who published 17 thrillers, detective novels and spy novels...

      , The Double Agent
    • Best Foreign: John Ball
      John Ball (American author)
      John Dudley Ball , writing as John Ball, was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. He was introduced in the 1965 In the Heat of the Night where he solves a murder in a racist Southern small town...

      , In the Heat of the Night


1965
  • Gold Dagger: Ross Macdonald
    Ross Macdonald
    Not to be confused with John D. MacDonaldRoss Macdonald is the pseudonym of the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar...

    , The Far Side of the Dollar
    • Dick Francis
      Dick Francis
      Richard Stanley "Dick" Francis CBE was an English jockey and crime writer, many of whose novels centre around horse racing.- Personal life :...

      , For Kicks
    • Emma Lathen
      Emma Lathen
      Emma Lathen is the pen name of two American businesswomen: an economist Mary Jane Latsis and an economic analyst Martha Henissart ,who received her B.A. in physics from Mount Holyoke College in 1950....

      , Accounting for Murder
    • Best British: Gavin Lyall
      Gavin Lyall
      Gavin Tudor Lyall was an English author of espionage thrillers.-Biography:Lyall was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, as the son of a local accountant, and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham...

      , Midnight Plus One
      Midnight Plus One
      Midnight Plus One is a first person narrative novel by English author Gavin Lyall, first published in 1965.-Plot introduction:Lewis Cane is an ex-SOE operative who worked with the French Resistance against Nazi Germany. He stayed in Paris after the end of World War II, making a somewhat precarious...



1964
  • Gold Dagger: H. R. F. Keating
    H. R. F. Keating
    Henry Reymond Fitzwalter "Harry" Keating was an English crime fiction writer most notable for his series of novels featuring Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID.-Life:...

    , The Perfect Murder
    The Perfect Murder
    The Perfect Murder is a 1988 English language Indian film directed by Zafar Hai and produced by Merchant-Ivory. The film is based on the 1964 novel The Perfect Murder by British crime fiction writer HRF Keating and stars Naseeruddin Shah as Inspector Ghote, the leading character in Keating's novels...

    • Gavin Lyall
      Gavin Lyall
      Gavin Tudor Lyall was an English author of espionage thrillers.-Biography:Lyall was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, as the son of a local accountant, and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham...

      , The Most Dangerous Game
      The Most Dangerous Game (Gavin Lyall novel)
      The Most Dangerous Game is a first person narrative novel by English author Gavin Lyall, first published in 1964. The plot of the novel is totally different from the Richard Connell short story The Most Dangerous Game.-Plot introduction:...

    • Ross Macdonald
      Ross Macdonald
      Not to be confused with John D. MacDonaldRoss Macdonald is the pseudonym of the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar...

      , The Chill
    • Best Foreign: Patricia Highsmith
      Patricia Highsmith
      Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short-story writer most widely known for her psychological thrillers, which led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, has been adapted for stage and screen numerous times, notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951...

      , The Two Faces of January


1963
  • Gold Dagger: John le Carré
    John le Carré
    David John Moore Cornwell , who writes under the name John le Carré, is an author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and the 1960s, Cornwell worked for MI5 and MI6, and began writing novels under the pseudonym "John le Carré"...

    , The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
    The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
    The Spy Who Came in from the Cold , by John le Carré, is a British Cold War spy novel that became famous for its portrayal of Western espionage methods as being morally inconsistent with Western democracy and values. The novel received critical acclaim at the time of its publication and became an...

    • Nicolas Freeling
      Nicolas Freeling
      Nicolas Freeling, born Nicolas Davidson , was a British crime novelist, best known as the author of the Van der Valk series of detective novels...

      , Gun Before Butter
    • William Haggard
      William Haggard
      William Haggard was the pseudonym of Richard Henry Michael Clayton an English civil servant and writer of fictional spy thrillers. He was born in Croydon.-Writing career:...

      , The High Wire


1962
  • Gold Dagger: Joan Fleming
    Joan Fleming
    Joan Fleming was a British writer of crime and thriller novels. Her novel The Deeds of Dr Deadcert was made into the film Rx for Murder , and she won the Gold Dagger award twice, for When I Grow Rich and Young Man I Think You're Dying .-Family background and early life:She was born at Horwich,...

    , When I Grow Rich
    • Eric Ambler
      Eric Ambler
      Eric Clifford Ambler OBE was an influential British author of spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. Ambler also used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda.-Life:...

      , The Light of the Day
    • Colin Watson
      Colin Watson (writer)
      Colin Watson was a British writer of detective fiction and the creator of characters such as Inspector Purbright and Lucilla Teatime. He is most famous for the twelve Flaxborough novels, typified by their comic and dry wit and set in a fictional small town in England which is closely based on...

      , Hopjoy Was Here


1961
  • Gold Dagger: Mary Kelly
    Mary Kelly (writer)
    Mary Theresa Kelly née Coolican is Scottish a writer of crime novels. She received M.A. degree from University of Edinburgh in 1951...

    , The Spoilt Kill
    • John le Carré
      John le Carré
      David John Moore Cornwell , who writes under the name John le Carré, is an author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and the 1960s, Cornwell worked for MI5 and MI6, and began writing novels under the pseudonym "John le Carré"...

      , Call for the Dead
      Call for the Dead
      Call for the Dead is John le Carré's first novel, published in 1961. It introduces George Smiley, the most famous of le Carré's recurring characters, in a story about East German spies inside Great Britain...

    • Allan Prior
      Allan Prior
      Allan Prior was an English television scriptwriter and novelist, who wrote over 300 television episodes from the 1950s onwards....

      , One Way


1960 (award re-named)
  • Gold Dagger: Lionel Davidson
    Lionel Davidson
    Lionel Davidson was an English novelist who wrote a number of acclaimed spy thrillers.-Life and career:Lionel Davidson was born in 1922 in Hull, Yorkshire, one of nine children of an immigrant Jewish tailor. He left school early and worked in the London offices of the Spectator magazine as an...

    , The Night of Wenceslas
    The Night of Wenceslas
    The Night of Wenceslas is the debut novel of British thriller and crime writer Lionel Davidson. It describes the reluctant adventures of Nicolas Whistler, a dissolute young man of mixed English and Czech parentage who finds himself caught up against his will in Cold War espionage...

    • Mary Stewart
      Mary Stewart
      Mary Florence Elinor Stewart is a popular English novelist, best known for her Merlin series, which straddles the boundary between the historical novel and the fantasy genre.-Career:...

      , My Brother Michael
    • Julian Symons
      Julian Symons
      Julian Gustave Symons 1912 - 1994) was a British crime writer and poet. He also wrote social and military history, biography and studies of literature.-Life and work:...

      , Progress of a Crime

1950s

1959
  • Crossed Red Herring Award: Eric Ambler
    Eric Ambler
    Eric Clifford Ambler OBE was an influential British author of spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. Ambler also used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda.-Life:...

    , Passage of Arms
    Passage of Arms
    Passage of Arms is a novel by Eric Ambler, written in 1959. It is a fast paced thriller about the discovery of a cache of arms abandoned by communist insurgents in the jungle of Malaya, and the transfer of the arms via Singapore to Indonesia. The book is structured as a story within a story within...

    • James Mitchell, A Way Back
    • Menna Gallie
      Menna Gallie
      Menna Patricia Humphreys Gallie was a Welsh novelist and translator.She was born in Ystradgynlais. She married the philosopher W. B...

      , Strike for a Kingdom


1958
  • Crossed Red Herring Award: Margot Bennett
    Margot Bennett
    Margot Bennett was a writer of crime and thriller novels. She was educated in Scotland and Australia. Worked as a copywriter in Sydney and London, and as a nurse during the Spanish Civil War...

    , Someone from the Past
    • Margery Allingham
      Margery Allingham
      Margery Louise Allingham was an English crime writer, best remembered for her detective stories featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion.- Childhood and schooling :...

      , Hide My Eyes
    • James Byrom, Or Be He Dead
    • John Sherwood
      John Sherwood (author)
      John Sherwood is an author of fiction. He wrote the cozy Celia Grant Horticultural mystery series, amongst others.-Charles Blessington series:* Disappearance of Dr. Bruderstein * Mr...

      , Undiplomatic Exit


1957
  • Crossed Red Herring Award: Julian Symons
    Julian Symons
    Julian Gustave Symons 1912 - 1994) was a British crime writer and poet. He also wrote social and military history, biography and studies of literature.-Life and work:...

    , The Colour of Murder
    • Ngaio Marsh
      Ngaio Marsh
      Dame Ngaio Marsh DBE , born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre director. There is some uncertainty over her birth date as her father neglected to register her birth until 1900...

      , Off With His Head
    • George Milner, Your Money or Your Life
    • Douglas Rutherford, The Long Echo


1956
  • Crossed Red Herring Award: Edward Grierson
    Edward Grierson
    Edward Grierson was a Northumberland barrister and a writer of crime novels. His debut crime novel is the outstanding Reputation for a Song, a classic Inverted detective story. Grierson also wrote five novels, six works of non-fiction and two plays...

    , The Second Man
    • Sarah Gainham
      Sarah Gainham
      Sarah Gainham is the pseudonym of Sarah Rachel Stainer Ames a British novelist. She is perhaps best known for her 1967 novel Night Falls on the City, the first of a trilogy about life in Vienna under Nazi rule.-External links:*...

      , Time Right Deadly
    • Arthur Upfield
      Arthur Upfield
      Arthur William Upfield was an Australian writer, best known for his works of detective fiction featuring Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte of the Queensland Police Force, a half-caste Aborigine....

      , Man of Two Tribes
    • J. J. Marric
      John Creasey
      John Creasey MBE was an English crime and science fiction writer. The author of more than 600 novels, he published them using 28 different pseudonyms, including Anthony Morton, Michael Halliday, Kyle Hunt, J.J. Marric, Jeremy York, Richard Martin, Peter Manton, Norman Deane, Gordon Ashe, Henry St...

      , Gideon's Week


1955
  • Crossed Red Herring Award: Winston Graham
    Winston Graham
    Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE was an English novelist, best known for the The Poldark Novel series of historical fiction.-Biography:...

    , The Little Walls
    The Little Walls
    The Little Walls is a crime novel by Winston Graham. It won the very first Gold Dagger, then called Crossed Red Herring Award, awarded by the Crime Writers' Association in 1955...

    • Leigh Howard, Blind Date
    • Ngaio Marsh
      Ngaio Marsh
      Dame Ngaio Marsh DBE , born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre director. There is some uncertainty over her birth date as her father neglected to register her birth until 1900...

      , Scales of Justice
      Scales of Justice (novel)
      Scales of Justice is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the eighteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1955. The plot concerns the murder of Colonel Carterette, an enthusiastic fisherman in charge of publishing the controversial memoirs of the local baronet....

    • Margot Bennett
      Margot Bennett
      Margot Bennett was a writer of crime and thriller novels. She was educated in Scotland and Australia. Worked as a copywriter in Sydney and London, and as a nurse during the Spanish Civil War...

      , The Man Who Didn't Fly

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