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Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original

Annual literary award

Summary

Annual literary award

The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback or eBook Original was established in 1970.

The award honors the best mystery book that is initially printed as a paperback or eBook without a hardcover edition. EBooks must be published by a reputable publisher, as determined by the Mystery Writers of America. American authors' debut novels are not eligible for the award, though they are eligible for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel.

The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original winners are listed below.

Winners

1970s

YearAuthorTitleResult1970197119721973197419751976197719781979
**Winner
Assault on MingShortlist
FlashpointWinner
Shortlist
O.D. at Sweet Claude’s
After Things Fell Apart
Grave Descend
Mafioso
For Murder I Charge MoreWinner
Shortlist
Space for Hire
Nor Spell, Nor Charm
And the Deep Blue Sea
**Winner
Not Dead YetShortlist
Power Kill
Death of an InformerWinner
Shortlist
Deadlocked!
Starling Street
**Winner
Who Killed Mr. Garland’s Mistress?Shortlist
Jump Cut
Flats Fixed-Among Other Things
AutopsyWinner
and Robin MooreThe Set-UpShortlist
Charlie’s Back in Town
Confess, FletchWinner
Shortlist
and John Stanley
Freeze Frame
**Winner
Time to Murder and CreateShortlist
They’ve Killed Anna
Deceit and Deadly LiesWinner
Stud GameShortlist
Heartstone
Charnel House

1980s

YearAuthorTitleResult1980198119821983198419851986198719881989
**Winner
Shortlist
Vortex
Public MurdersWinner
Blood InnocentsShortlist
Looking for Ginger North
Tough Luck, L.A.
**Winner
DeadlineShortlist
Pin
Dead Heat
TriangleWinner
Vital SignsShortlist
Clandestine
Mrs. WhiteWinner
False ProphetsShortlist
Trace
Hunter
and Warren MurphyGrandmasterWinner
Shortlist
Words Can Kill
Black Knight in Red Square
Pigs Get FatWinner
Poverty BayShortlist
Broken Idols
Blue Heron
Black Gravity
**Winner
Shortlist
Hazzard
Ronin
Shattered Moon
Bimbos of the Death SunWinner
Shortlist
Deadly Intrusion
Bullshot
**Winner
Judgment by FireShortlist
Preacher

1990s

YearAuthorTitleResult1990199119921993199419951996199719981999
**Winner
Manhattan Is My BeatShortlist
King of the Hustlers
Hot Wire
**Winner
ComebackShortlist
Not a Creature Was Stirring
Dead in the Scrub
SPQR I: The King’s Gambit
Dark MazeWinner
Murder in the Dog DaysShortlist
Cracking Up
Midtown North
Fine Distinctions
**Winner
Shortlist
Principal Defense
Shallow Graves
Night Cruise
Dead Folk's BluesWinner
Shortlist
Tony’s Justice
Beyond Saru
Everywhere That Mary Went
Final AppealWinner
The Broken-Hearted DetectiveShortlist
Viper Quarry
Power of Attorney
Sunrise
Tarnished BlueWinner
Deal BreakerShortlist
High Desert Malice
Charged With Guilt
Hard Frost
Fade AwayWinner
Silent WordsShortlist
Walking Rain
Tribe
Charm CityWinner
Home Again, Home AgainShortlist
Tarnished Icons
Sunset and Santiago
**Winner
Atlanta GravesShortlist
Butchers Hill
Zen Attitude
Murder Manual

2000s

YearAuthorTitleResult2000200120022003200420052006200720082009
Fulton County BluesWinner
Lucky ManShortlist
The Resurrectionist
Outcast
In Big Trouble
**Winner
Murder on St. Mark’s PlaceShortlist
Killing Kin
Pursuit and Persuasion
Adios MuchachosWinner
Hell’s KitchenShortlist
Dead of Winter
Straw Men
Out of SightWinner
Black Jack PointShortlist
Trauma
Prison Blues
Find Me AgainWinner
Cut and RunShortlist
Wisdom of the Bones
Southland
**Winner
Shortlist
Into the Web
Dead Men Rise Up Never
Twelve-Step Fandango
Girl in the GlassWinner
Homicide My OwnShortlist
Kiss Her Goodbye
Six Bad Things
Snakeskin ShamisenWinner
Shortlist
City of Tiny Lights
QueenpinWinnerlast=first=date=May 2, 2008title=Awards: The Edgars; Arthur C. Clarke Prizeurl=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=668access-date=2022-12-10website=Shelf Awarenessarchive-date=2022-09-20archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920163103/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=668url-status=live }}
Blood of ParadiseShortlist
Cruel Poetry
Robbie’s Wife
Who Is Conrad Hirst?
China LakeWinnerdate=May 1, 2009title=Awards: Edgars; Arthur C. Clarkeurl=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=913access-date=2022-12-10website=Shelf Awarenessarchive-date=2023-06-03archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603051613/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=913url-status=live }}
Shortlist
Money Shot
Enemy Combatant

2010s

YearAuthorTitleResult2010201120122013201420152016201720182019
Body BlowsWinner
Bury Me DeepShortlist
Havana Lunar
Long Time ComingWinner
Shortlist
Expiration Date
Vienna Secrets
Ten Little Herrings
**Winnertitle=2012 Nominees and Winnersurl=http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.htmlurl-status=deadarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103021135/http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.htmlarchive-date=2012-11-03work=Edgar Awards}}
**Shortlist
**
Death of the Mantis
Vienna Twilight
**Winnertitle=2013 Nominees and Winnersurl=http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.htmlurl-status=deadarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102175427/http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.htmlarchive-date=2013-11-02work=Edgar Awards}}
ComplicationShortlist
Whiplash River
Bloodland
Blessed Are the Dead
**Winnertitle=2014 Nominees and Winnersurl=http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.htmlurl-status=deadarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110070118/http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.htmlarchive-date=2014-11-10work=Edgar Awards}}
**Shortlist
Almost Criminal
Joe Victim
Joyland
Brilliance
**Winnertitle=2015 Nominees and Winnersurl=http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.htmlurl-status=deadarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151108155610/http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.htmlarchive-date=2015-11-08work=Edgar Awards}}
Stay With MeShortlist
**
**
**
World of Trouble
**Winnertitle=2016 Nominees and Winnersurl=http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.htmlurl-status=deadarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105001852/http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.htmlarchive-date=2016-11-05work=Edgar Awards}}
**Shortlist
What She Knew
Woman with a Blue Pencil
Gun Street Girl
**
Rain DogsWinnertitle=2017 Nominees and Winnersurl=http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.htmlurl-status=deadarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107133154/http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.htmlarchive-date=2017-11-07work=Edgar Awards}}
Shot in DetroitShortlist
Come Twilight
Heart of Stone
**Winnertitle=2018 Nominees and Winnersurl=http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.htmlurl-status=deadarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181110031229/http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.htmlarchive-date=2018-11-10work=Edgar Awards}}
In Farleigh FieldShortlist
Ragged Lake
Black Fall
Penance
If I Die TonightWinnertitle=2019 Nominees and Winnersurl=http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.htmlurl-status=deadarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818102836/http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.htmlarchive-date=2019-08-18work=Edgar Awards}}
Hiroshima BoyShortlist
Under a Dark Sky
Under My Skin

2020s

YearAuthorTitleResult20202021202220232024
**Winnertitle=Edgar Award Nomineesurl=http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.htmlaccess-date=2020-05-05website=www.theedgars.comarchive-date=2007-08-24archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824164638/http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.htmlurl-status=dead}}
Dread of WinterShortlist
Freedom Road
Blood Relations
February’s Son
**
When No One Is WatchingWinnertitle=2021 Edgar Allan Poe Award Winnersurl=https://mysterywriters.org/2021-edgar-allan-poe-award-winners/website=Mystery Writers of Americaaccess-date=2022-12-14archive-date=2021-04-29archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429182947/https://mysterywriters.org/2021-edgar-allan-poe-award-winners/url-status=live }}
**Shortlist
Unspeakable Things
**
East of Hounslow
Bobby March Will Live ForeverWinnertitle=2022 Edgar Allan Poe Award Winnersurl=https://mysterywriters.org/2022-edgar-allan-poe-award-winners/website=Mystery Writers of Americaaccess-date=2022-12-14archive-date=2024-05-06archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240506175516/https://mysterywriters.org/2022-edgar-allan-poe-award-winners-announced/url-status=live }}
Kill all Your DarlingsShortlist
**
**
Starr Sign
**
Or ElseWinner
Quarry’s BloodShortlist
On a Quiet Street
Cleopatra’s Dagger
A Familiar Stranger
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for MurderersWinnertitle=MWA Announces the 2024 Edgar Award Winners – Mystery Writers of Americaurl=https://mysterywriters.org/mwa-announces-the-2024-edgar-award-winners/url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240502200704/https://mysterywriters.org/mwa-announces-the-2024-edgar-award-winners/archive-date=2024-05-02access-date=2024-05-04language=en-US}}
BoomtownShortlist
Hide
Lowdown Road

References

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