The Crossed Red Herrings Award
For the Best Crime Novel of the Year
1955 to 1959
1955 Winston GRAHAM : The Little Walls (H & S)
Runners Up : Leigh HOWARD - Blind Date (Longmans Green)
Ngaio MARSH : Scales of Justice (Collins)
Margot BENNETT : The Man Who Didn't Fly (Eyre & Spottiswoode)
1956 Edward GRIERSON : The Second Man (C & W)
Runners Up : Sarah GAINHAM - Time Right Deadly (Barker)
Arthur UPFIELD : Man of Two tribes (Heinemann)
J J MARRIC : Gideon's Week (H & S)
1957 Julian SYMONS : The Colour of Murder (Collins)
Runners Up : Ngaio MARSH - Off With His Head (Collins)
George MILNER : Your Money or Your Life (Collins)
Douglas RUTHERFORD : The Long Echo (Collins)
1958 Margot BENNETT : Someone from the Past (Eyre & Spottiswoode)
Runners Up : Margery ALLINGHAM - Hide My Eyes (C & W)
James BYROM : Or Be He Dead (C & W)
John SHERWOOD : Undiplomatic Exit (H & S)
1959 Eric AMBLER : Passage of Arms (Heinemann)
Runners Up : James MITCHELL - A Way Back (Davies)
Menna GALLIE : Strike for a Kingdom (Gollancz)
Gold Dagger Award
for the Best Crime Novel
of the Year 1960 to 1968
1960 Lionel DAVIDSON : The Night of Wenceslas (Gollancz)
Runners Up : Mary Stewart - My Brother Michael (H & S)
Julian SYMONS : Progress of a Crime (Collins)
1961 Mary KELLY : The Spoilt Kill (Michael Joseph)
Runners Up : John LE CARRE - Call for the Dead (Gollancz)
Allan PRIOR : One Way (E & S)
1962 Joan FLEMING : When I Grow Rich (Collins)
Runners Up : Eric MBLER - The Light of the Day (Heinemann)
Colin WATSON : Hopjoy Was Here (E & S)
1963 John LE CARRE : The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Gollancz)
Runners Up : Nicholas FREELING - Gun Before Butter (Gollancz)
William HAGGARD : The High Wire (Cassell)
1964 H R F KEATING : The Perfect Murder (Collins)
Runners Up : Gavin LYALL - The Most Dangerous Game (H & S)
Ross MACDONALD : The Chill (Collins)
Best Foreign : Patricia HIGHSMITH - The Two Faces of January (Heinemann)
1965 Ross MACDONALD : The Far Side of the Dollar (Collins)
Runners Up : Dick FRANCIS - For Kicks (Michael Joseph)
Emma LATHEN : Accounting for Murder (Gollancz)
Best British : Gavin LYALL - Midnight Plus One (H & S)
1966 Lionel DAVIDSON : A Long Way from Shiloh (Gollancz)
Runner Up : John BINGHAM - The Double Agent (Gollancz)
Best Foreign : John BALL - In the Heat of the Night (Michael Joseph)
1967 Emma LATHEN : Murder Against the Grain (Gollancz)
Runner Up : Colin WATSON - Lonely Heart 4122 (E & S)
Best British : Eric AMBLER - Dirty Story (Bodley Head)
1968 Peter DICKINSON : Skin Deep (H & S)
Runner Up : Nicholas BLAKE - The private Wound (Collins)
Best Foreign : Sebastian JAPRISOT - The Lady in the Car (Souvenir Press)
Gold & Silver Dagger for
Best crime Novel of the Year
1969 onwards
1969 GOLD : Peter DICKINSON : A Pride of Heroes (H & S)
SILVER - Francis CLIFFORD - Another Way of Dying (H & S)
Best Foreign : Rex STOUT - The Father Hunt (Heinemann)
1970 Joan FLEMING : Young Man, I Think You're Dying (Collins)
Anthony PRICE : The Labyrinth Makers (Gollancz)
1971 James McCLURE : The Steam Pig (Gollancz)
P D JAMES : Shroud for a Nightingale (Faber)
1972 Eric AMBLER : The Levanter (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Victor CANNING : The Rainbird Pattern (1972 Heinemann)
1973 Robert LITTELL : The Defection of A J Lewinter(H & S)
Gwendoline BUTLER : A Coffin for Pandora (Macmillan)
1974 Anthony PRICE : Other Paths to Glory (Gollancz)
Francis CLIFFORD : The Grosvenor Square Goodbye (H & S)
1975 Nicholas MEYER : The Seven Per Cent Solution (H & S)
P D JAMES : The Black Tower (Faber)
1976 Ruth RENDELL : A Demon in My View (Hutchinson)
James McCLURE : Rogue Eagle (Macmillan)
1977 John LE CARRE : The Honourable Schoolboy (H & S)
William McILVANNEY : Laidlaw (H & S)
1978 Lionel DAVIDSON : The Chelsea Murders (Cape)
Peter LOVESEY : Waxwork (Macmillan)
1979 Dick FRANCIS : Whip Hand (Michael Joseph)
Colin DEXTER : Service of All the Dead (Macmillan)
1980 H R F KEATING : The Murder of the Maharajah (Collins)
Ellis PETERS : Monk's Hood (Macmillan)
1981 Martin Cruz SMITH : Gorky Park
Colin DEXTER : The Dead of Jericho (Macmillan)
1982 Peter LOVESEY : The False Inspector Dew (Macmillan)
S T HAYOM : Ritual Murder (Constable)
1983 John HUTTON : Accidental Crimes (Bodley Head)
William McILVANNEY : The Papers of Tony Veitch (Hodder)
1984 B M GILL : The Twelfth Juror (Hodder)
Ruth RENDELL : The Tree of Hands (Hutchinson)
1985 Paula GOSLING : Monkey Puzzle (Macmillan)
Dorothy SIMPSON : Last Seen Alive (Michael Joseph)
1986 Ruth RENDELL : Live Flesh (Hutchinson)
P D JAMES : A Taste for Death (Faber)
1987 Barbara VINE : A Fatal Inversion (Viking)
Scott TUROW : Presumed Innocent (Bloomsbury)
1988 Michael DIBDIN : Ratking (Faber)
Sara PARETSKY : Toxic Shock (Gollancz)
1989 Colin DEXTER : The Wench is Dead (Macmillan)
Desmond LOWDEN : The Shadow Run (Deutsch)
1990 Reginald HILL : Bones and Silence (Collins)
Mike PHILIPS : The Late Candidate (Michael Joseph)
1991 Barbara VINE : King Solomon's Carpet (Viking)
Frances FYFIELD : Deep Sleep (Heinemann)
1992 Colin DEXTER : The Way Through the Woods (Macmillan)
Liza CODY : Bucket Nut
1993 Patricia CORNWELL : Cruel and Unusual (Little Brown)
Sarah DUNANT : Fatlands (Hamish Hamilton)
1994 Minette WALTERS : The Scold's Bridle (Macmillan)
Peter HOEG : Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Harvill)
1995 Val McDERMID : The Mermaids Singing (Harper Collins £9.99)
Peter LOVESEY : The Summons (Little Brown)
John Creasey Memorial Award
for the Best First Crime Novel
1973 onwards
1973 : Kyril BONFIGLIOLI - Don't Point That Thing at Me (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
1974 : Roger L SIMON - The Big Fix (Deutsch)
1975 : Sara GEORGE - Acid Drops (Macmillan)
1976 : Patrick ALEXANDER (Death of a Thin Skinned Animal (Macmillan)
1977 : Jonathan GASH - The Judas Pair (Collins)
1978 : Paula GOSLING - A Running Duck (Macmillan)
1979 : David SERAFIN - Saturday of Glory (Collins)
1980 : Liza CODY - Dupe (Collins)
1981 : James LEIGH - The Ludi Victor (Bodley Head)
1982 : Andrew TAYLOR - Caroline Minuscule (Gollancz)
1983 : Carol CLEMEAU - The Ariadne Clue (Collins)
Eric WRIGHT - The Night the Gods Smiled (Collins)
1984 : Elizabeth IRONSIDE - A Very private Enterprise (H & S)
1985 : Robert RICHARDSON - The Latimer Mercy (Gollancz)
1986 : Neville STEED - Tinplate (Mysterious Press)
1987 : Denis KILCOMMONS - The Dark Apostle (Bantam)
1988 : Janet NEEL - Death's Bright Angel (Constable)
1989 : Annette ROOME : A real Shot in the Arm (H & S)
1990 : Patricia CORNWELL - Postmortem (Macdonald)
1991 : Walter MOSLEY - Devil in a Blue Dress (Serpent's Tail)
1992 : Minette WALTERS - The Ice House (Macmillan
1993 : NOT AWARDED
1994 : Doug J SWANSON - Big Town (Little Brown £15.99)
1995 : Janet EVANOVITCH - One for the Money (Hamish Hamilton £9.95)
Last Laugh Award
(formerly the Punch
prize)
for the Funniest Crime Novel
1988 Onwards
1988 : Nancy LIVINGSTONE - Death in a Distant Land (Gollancz)
1989 : Mike RIPLEY - Angel Touch (Collins)
1990 : Simon SHAW - Killer Cinderella (Gollancz)
1991 : Mike RIPLEY - Angels in Arms (Collins)
1992 : Carl HIAASEN - Native Tongue (Macmillan)
1993 : Michae PEARCE - The Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egypt (Collins)
1994 : Simon SHAW - The Villain of the Earth (Gollancz £14.99)
1995 : Laurence SHAMES - Sunburn (Macmillan £9.99)
Police Review Award
for the Best Novel Portraying Police Procedures
1985-1987
1985 : Andrew ARNCLIFFE - Murder After the Holiday (Hale)
1986 : Bill KNOX - The Crossfire Killings (Century)
1987 : Robert BUSBY - Snowman (Gollancz)
Crime Writer's Association Award
for the Best Crime Novel set wholly or partly in Europe
1990-1992
1990 : Michael DIBDIN - Vendetta (Faber)
1991 : Barbara WILSON - Gaudi Afternoon (Virago)
1992 : Timothy WILLIAMS - Black August (Gollancz)
Rumpole Award
Awarded Occasionally for a Novel with a British Legal Setting
1990 onwards
1990 : Frances FYFIELD - Trial by Fire (Heinemann)
1992 : Peter RAWLINSON - Hatred and Contempt (Chapmans)
Diamond Daggers Awarded
for Excellence in Crime Writing
1986 onwards
1986 : Eric AMBLER
1987 : P D JAMES
1988 : John LE CARRE
1989 : Dick FRANCIS
1990 : Julian SYMONS
1991 : Ruth RENDELL
1992 : Leslie CHARTERIS
1993 : Ellis PETERS
1994 : Michael GILBERT
1995 : to be announced in May 1996
Non-Fiction Gold and Silver Daggers
1978 onwards (silver dagger discontinued 1980)
1978 : Audrey WILLIAMSON - The Mystery of the Princess (Dursley Sutton)
Silver : Harry HAWKES - The Capture of the Black Panther (Harrap)
1979 : Shirley GREEN - Rachman (Michael Joseph)
Silver : Jon CONNELL & Douglas SUTHERLAND - Fraud (H & S)
1980 : Anthony SUMMERS - Conspiracy (Gollancz)
1981 : Jacob TIMERMAN - Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
1982 : John CORNWELL - Earth to Earth (Allen Lane)
1983 : Peter WATSON - Double Dealer (Hutchinson)
1984 : David YALLOP - In God's Name (Macdonald)
1985 : Brian MASTERS - Killing for Company (Cape)
1986 : John BRYSON - Evil Angels (Viking)
1987 : Bernard TAYLOR & Stephen KNIGHT - Perfect Murder (Grafton)
1988 : Bernard WASSERSTEIN - The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln (New Haven)
1989 : Robert LINDSAY - A Gathering of Saints (Simon & Schuster)
1990 : Jonathan GOODMAN - The Passing of Starr Faithfull (Piatkus)
1991 : John BOSSY - Girodana Bruce and Embassy Affair (New Haven)
1992 : Charles NICHOLL - The Reckoning (Cape)
1993 : Alexander ARTLEY - Murder in the Heart (Hamish Hamilton)
1994 : David CANTER - Criminal Shadows (Harper Collins)
1995 : Martin BEALES - Dead Not Buried (Robert Hale)