1989 Edgar Allan Poe Award (Awarded by Mystery Writers of America)

Awards List

First Novel

Carolina Skeletons
(Winner)
David Stout

A Great Deliverance
(Nominee)
Elizabeth George

Murder Once Done
(Nominee)
Mary Lou Bennett

The Murder of Frau Schutz
(Nominee)
J. Madison Davis

Julian Solo
(Nominee)
Shelly Reuben

Juvenile

Megan's Island
(Winner)
Willo Davis Roberts

Something Upstairs
(Nominee)
Avi

The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb
(Nominee)
John Bellairs

Following the Mystery Man
(Nominee)
Mary Downing Hahn

Is Anybody There?
(Nominee)
Eve Bunting

Novel

A Cold Red Sunrise
(Winner)
Stuart M. Kaminsky

Sacrificial Ground
(Nominee)
Thomas H. Cook

Joey's Case
(Nominee)
K.C. Constantine

In the Lake of the Moon
(Nominee)
David L. Lindsey

A Thief of Time
(Nominee)
Tony Hillerman

Paperback Original

The Telling of Lies
(Winner)
Timothy Findley

The Trapdoor
(Nominee)
Keith Peterson

A Radical Departure
(Nominee)
Lia Matera

Preacher
(Nominee)
Ted Thackrey

Judgment by Fire
(Nominee)
Frederick D. Huebner

Young Adult

Incident at Loring Groves
(Winner)
Sonia Levitin

Shadow in the North
(Nominee)
Philip Pullman

Second Fiddle
(Nominee)
Ronald Kidd

The Accident
(Nominee)
Todd Strasser

Award Categories

Critical/Biographical

First Novel

Juvenile

Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award

Mary Higgins Clark Award

Motion Picture

Novel

Paperback Original

Short Story

Sue Grafton Memorial Award

The Robert L Fish Memorial Award

Young Adult

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