Edgar Awards: 2002

On May 2, 2002, the greatest talents in American mystery writing once again gathered to honor their own with the most prestigious award in the field at the 57th Annual MWA Edgar Awards Banquet. The venue was once again the Grand Ballroom at New York City's Grand Hyatt Hotel.

Best Novel - Silent Joe, T. Jefferson Parker (Hyperion)

Nominees

• The Judgement, D.W. Buffa (Warner Books)
• Tell No One, Harlan Coben (Delacorte Press)
• Money, Money, Money Ed McBain (Simon & Schuster)
• Reflecting the Sky, S.J. Rozan (St. Martin's Minotaur)

Best First Novel by an American Author - Line of Vision, David Ellis (GP Putnam's Sons)

Nominees

• Open Season, C. J. Box (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
• Red Hook, Gabriel Cohen (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur)
• Gun Monkeys, Victor Gischler (Uglytown)
• The Jasmine Trade, Denise Hamilton (Scribner's)

Best Paperback Original - Adios Muchachos, Daniel Chavarria (Akashic Books)

Nominees

• Hell's Kitchen, Jeffery Deaver writing as William Jefferies (Pocket Books)
• The Mother Tongue, Teri Holbrook (Bantam Books)
• Dead of Winter, P.J. Parrish (Pinnacle Books)
• Straw Men, Martin J. Smith (Jove Books)

Best Fact Crime - Son of a Grifter, Kent Walker with Mark Schone (William Morrow)

Nominees

• Leavenworth Train: A Fugitive's Search for Justice in the Vanishing West, Joe Jackson (Carroll & Graf)
• The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case, James Neff (Random House)
• Dark Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide and the Criminal Mind, Roy Hazelwood and Stephen G. Michaud (St. Martin's Press)
• Base Instincts: What Makes Killers Kill? Jonathan H. Pincus, M.D. (Norton)

Best Critical/Biographical Work - Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z, Dawn B. Sova (Facts on File/Checkmark Books)

Nominees

• The History of Mystery, Max Allan Collins (Collectors Press)
• Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers, Jo Hammett (Carroll & Graff/An Otto Penzler Book)
• My Name's Friday, Michael J. Hayde (Cumberland House)
• Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett: 1921-1960, Edited by Richard Layman with Julie M. Rivett (Counterpoint)
• Who Was That Lady?, Jeffrey Marks (Delphi Books)

Best Short Story - "Double-Crossing Delancy," S.J. Rozan (Private Eye Writers of America, Mystery Street, Penguin Putnam/Signet)

Nominees

• "The Abbey Ghosts," Jan Burke (AHMM January 2001)
• "The Horrible, Senseless Murders of Two Elderly Women," Michael Collins (Fedora)
• "If the Glove Fits," Michael Z. Lewin (EQMM Sept-Oct 2001)
• "Virgo in Sapphires," Margaret Maron (EQMM December 2001)

Best Young Adult - The Boy in the Burning House, Tim Wynne-Jones (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Melanie Kroupa Books)

Nominees

• Dark Secrets Don't Tell, Elizabeth Chandler (Pocket Books/Archway Paperbacks)
• Death on Sacred Ground, Harriet K. Feder (Lerner Publications Co.)
• Shades of Simon Gray, Joyce McDonald (Delacorte Press)
• Witch Hill, Marcus Sedgwick (Delacorte Press)

Best Juvenile - Dangling, Lillian Eige (Simon & Schuster, Atheneum)

Nominees

• Ghost Soldier, Elaine Marie Alphin (Henry Holt)
• Ghost Sitter, Peni R. Griffin (Penguin-Putnam/Dutton)
• Following Fake Man, Barbara Ware Holmes (Random House/Alfred A. Knopf)
• Bug Muldoon, Paul Shipton, (Penguin-Putnam/Viking)

Best Television Episode - The Sopranos: "The Pine Barrens," Teleplay by Terence Winter. Story by Tim Van Patten & Terence Winter

Nominees

• Nero Wolfe: "Prisoner's Base Part 2," Teleplay by Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin
• Law & Order:SVU: "Countdown," Teleplay by Lisa Marie Petersen & Dawn Denoon
• The Practice: "Killing Time," Teleplay by Jonathan Shapiro, Lukas Reiter, Peter Blake & David E. Kelley
• NYPD Blue: "Johnny Got His Gold," Teleplay by Nicholas Wootton. Story by Stephen Bochco, Bill Clark & Nicholas Wootton

Best Television Feature / Miniseries - The Sins, William Ivory (BBC America)

Nominees

• Things Behind the Sun, Allison Anders & Kurt Voss (Showtime)
• The Killing Yard, Benita Garvin (Showtime)
• Final Jeopardy, Adam Greenman (from the novel by Linda Fairstein) (Sanitsky Company)
• Steve Martini's The Judge, Christopher Lofton (from the novel by Steve Martini) (Jaffe/Braunstein Films)

Best Mystery Motion Picture - Memento, Screenplay by Christopher Nolan (Newmarket Films)

Nominees

• The Man Who Wasn't There, Screenplay by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (USA Films)
• Gosford Park, Screenplay by Julian Fellowes (USA Films)
• Mulholland Drive, Screenplay by David Lynch (Universal Focus)
• Series 7: The Contenders, Screenplay by Daniel Minahan (USA Films)

Best Play - No award in this category this year.

Special Edgar Award - Blake Edwards

Edgar Awards: 2001 | Edgar Allan Poe Award

Sources
"2002 Edgar Award Nominees Announced." The Write News Web Site. February 19, 2002. <http://www.writenews.com/2002/021802_edgar_award_nominees.htm> (January 30, 2002)
"Edgar Award Winners and Nominees in the Private Eye Genre." The Thrilling Detective Web Site. <http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv50.html> (January 30, 2003)
Mystery Writers of America. "The 2002 Edgar Award Nominees." The Mystery Writers of America Website. March 18, 2002. <http://www.mysterywriters.org/awards/edgars_02_nominees.html> (January 29, 2003)