Agatha Awards

Agatha Award Winners Awarded by the Malice Domestic Mystery Convention (first held in 1989) which is devoted to Cozy Mysteries. See details of 1995's Nominations
1995:
Best Novel: Sharyn McCrumb, "If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him" --- [Ballantine]
Best First Novel: Jeanne M. Dams, "The Body in the Transept" --- [Walker]
Best Short Story: Elizabeth Daniels Squire, "The Dog Who Remembered Too Much," - Malice Domestic 4 - [Pocket Books]
Best Nonfiction Work: Alzina Stone Dale, "Mystery Reader's Walking Guide: Chicago" - [Passport Books, NTC Publishing Group]
Lifetime Achievement Award: Mary Stewart

1994:
Best Novel: Sharyn McCrumb, "She Walks These Hills" (Scribners)
Best First Mystery: Jeff Abbott, "Do Unto Others" (Ballantine)
Best Nonfiction Work: Jean Swanson and Dean James, "By a Woman's Hand" (Berkley)
Best Short Story: Dorothy Cannell, "The Family Jewels," in Malice Domestic 3 (Pocket Books)

1993:
Best Novel: Carolyn Hart, "Dead Man's Island"
Best First Novel: Nevada Barr, "Track of the Cat"
Best Nonfiction Work: Barbara D'Amato, "The Doctor, The Murder, The Mystery" (Noble Press)
Best Short Story: "Kim's Game," M.D. Lake, in Malice Domestic 2 (Pocket Books)
Lifetime Achievement Award: Mignon Eberhart

1992:
Best Novel: Margaret Maron, "Bootlegger's Daughter"
Best First Novel: Barbara Neely, "Blanche on the Lam"
Best Short Story: "Nice Gorilla," Aaron and Charlotte Elkins, in Malice Domestic 1 (Pocket Books)

1991:
Best Novel: Nancy Pickard, "I.O.U."
Best First Novel: Mary Willis Walker, "Zero at the Bone"
Best Short Story: "Deborah's Judgment," Margaret Maron, in "A Women's Eye"

1990:
Best Novel: Nancy Pickard, "Bum Steer"
Best First Novel: Katherine Hall Page, "The Body in the Belfry"
Best Short Story: "Too Much to Bare," Joan Hess, "Sisters in Crime 2"

1989:
Best Novel: Elizabeth Peters, "Naked Once More"
Best First Novel: Jill Churchill, "Grime and Punishment"
Best Short Story: Sharyn McCrumb, "A Wee Doch and Doris" in Mistletoe Mysteries
Lifetime Achievement Award: Phyllis Whitney

1988:
Best Novel: Carolyn Hart, "Something Wicked"
Best First Novel: Elizabeth George, "A Great Deliverance"
Best Short Story: Robert Barnard, "More Final than Divorce," in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

If you would like information on Malice VIII audiotapes for sale (Incl the stellar "Dear Author" session where Peter Lovesey and Margaret Maron read their mail) send an email to Beth Foxwell (Chair MALICE DOMESTIC Ltd).
Established in 1989, the nonprofit MALICE DOMESTIC Ltd. hosts an annual convention in metropolitan Washington, DC, that salutes "mysteries of manners." Nearly 700 authors, fans, dealers, editors, agents and others from around the world attend the convention each year.

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03 Mar 2003.

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