Winners of the Best Novel category for the Edgar Awards.
Edgar Award for Best Novel Public
Created by Phil in SF
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Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay
In the island port of Marapai, where white men tried to rule and often found it too hard, in the …
Phil in SF says: 1954 winner
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The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (Philip Marlowe, #6)
4 stars
Remember Marlowe? Here he is back again, a little older, a shade or two wiser, but still man enough to …
Phil in SF says: 1955 winner
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Beast in View by Margaret Millar
Wealthy, insecure Helen Clarvoe, living alone in a California town, first thought she was the victim of an unknown lunatic. …
Phil in SF says: 1956 winner
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A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong
Ken Gibson was far from a swash-buckler. He was a college professor and at fifty-five a lonely bachelor, but within …
Phil in SF says: 1957 winner
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If you're a Negro private eye from up North, you find it tricky sledding in a small Ohio town, close …
Phil in SF says: 1958 winner
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The eighth circle by Stanley Ellin (A Random House mystery)
Murray Kirk didn't need the Lundeen case. He had made a very good thing of the private detective business. He …
