The Edgars(SM), officially known as the Edgar Allan Poe Awards(SM), are presented annually by the members of the Mystery Writers of America to distinguished fiction and non-fiction works about crime, mystery and detection -- primarily by American authors. The first Edgar was awarded in 1946 in the category of Best First Mystery Novel (American), and in subsequent years the awards have been expanded to include numerous other categories, including Film, TV and children's literature. For the purposes of our on-line list below, we've chosen to include the adult fiction and non-fiction categories that are considered the "prestige" categories of the Edgars. Please visit the Edgar Winners database on the MWA site, if you'd like to see a complete list of nominees and winners in all existing Edgar categories throughout the years.

The titles in this list are "hotlinked" to our library's catalog, for all those titles currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries. Please note that several of the earlier Edgar-winning novels have gone out of print and are no longer in our collection. They appear here for the sake of providing a complete list. If there is a title you're interested in which we no longer own, and you are a Lincoln City Libraries customer, please consider requesting it through our Interlibrary Loan service. With regards to the winners in the Short Stories and Robert L. Fish Memorial award categories, please note that the Lincoln City Libraries does not own individual issues of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and we only carry limited back issues of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. However, numerous stories which originally saw print in these two periodicals have since been reprinted in anthologies under the Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock banners, and the library does own many of these reprint volumes.