The 2007 Edgar Award Winners
Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners for the 2006 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction, television and film published or produced in 2006.
BEST NOVEL
THE JANISSARY TREE by Jason Goodwin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
THE FAITHFUL SPY by Alex Berenson (Random House)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
SNAKESKIN SHAMISEN by Naomi Hirahara (Belta Books/Bantam Dell Publishing)
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
THE SCIENCE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: FROM BASKERVILLE HALL TO THE VALLEY OF FEAR, THE REAL FORENSICS BEHIND THE GREAT DETECTIVE'S GREATEST CASES by E.J. Wagner (Wiley, New Ed Edition)
BEST FACT CRIME
MANHUNT: THE 12-DAY CHASE FOR LINCOLN's KILLER by James L. Swanson (William Morrow/HarperCollins)
BEST SHORT STORY
"THE HOME FRONT" from DEATH DO US PART by Charles Ardai (Hachette Book Group)
BEST YOUNG ADULT
BURIED by Robin Merrow MacCready (Dutton Children's Books/Penguin Young Readers)
BEST JUVENILE
ROOM ONE: A MYSTERY OR TWO by Andrew Clements (Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers)
BEST PLAY
SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE FINAL ADVENTURE by Steven Dietz (Arizona Theater Company)
BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
LIFE ON MARS - Episode 1, Teleplay by Matthew Graham (BBC America)
BEST TELEVISION FEATURE/MINI-SERIES TELEPLAY
"The Wire," Season 4, Teleplays by Ed Burns, Kia Corthron, Dennis Lehane, David Mills, Eric Overmyer, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, David Simon and William F. Zorzi (Home Box Office)
BEST MOTION PICTURE SCREENPLAY
THE DEPARTED, Screen play by William Monohan (Warner Brothers Pictures)
For more information about the Mystery Writers of America and the Edgars, go to http://www.mysterywriters.org