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Queen's Quorum

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Edgar Allan Poe

<< 1845 >>

Mystery writer Ellery Queen (a pseudonymous collaboration of cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee) won five annual Edgar Awards, including the Grand Master award in 1960. Queen originally selected what he considered the 106 most important books published in the detective-crime field in 1948, and later added an additional 19 titles.

Prize Winners

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1845:

Edgar Allan Poe, Tales

1856:

William "Waters" Russell, Recollections of a Detective Police-officer

1859:

Wilkie Collins, The Queen of Hearts

1860:

Charles Dickens, Hunted Down

1861:

Anonymous, The Experiences of a Lady Detective

1862:

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Out of His Head

1867:

Mark Twain, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

1876:

Emile Gaboriau, The Little Old Man of Batignolles

1878:

James M'Govan, Brought to Bay; or , Experiences of a City Detective

1881:

, Detective Sketches

1881:

Anonymous, Detective Sketches

1882:

Robert Louis Stevenson, New Arabian Nights

1884:

Frank R. Stockton, The Lady, Or the Tiger?

1888:

Eden Phillpotts, My Adventure in Flying Scotsman

1888:

Dick Donovan, The Man-hunter

1892:

Israel Zangwill, The Big Bow Mystery

1892:

A. Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

1894:

Catherine Louisa Pirkis, The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective

1894:

L.T. Meade, Stories from the Diary of a Doctor

1894:

Arthur Morrison, Martin Hewitt, Investigator

1895:

M.P. Shiel, Prince Zaleski

1896:

Melville Davisson Post, The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason

1897:

Grant Allen, An African Millionaire

1897:

George R. Sims, Dorcas Dene, Detective

1897:

George R. Sims, Dorcas Dene, Detective

1898:

Rodrigues Ottolengui, Final Proof

1898:

M. McDonnell Bodkin, Paul Beck, the Rule of Thumb Detective

1899:

Nicholas Carter, The Detective's Pretty Neighbor

1899:

L.T. Meade, The Brotherhood of Kings

1900:

Herbert Cadett, The Adventures of a Journalist

1901:

Richard Harding Davis, In the Fog

1902:

Bret Harte, Condensed Novels

1902:

Clifford Ashdown, The Adventures of Romney Pringle

1903:

Percival Pollard, Lingo Dan

1905:

B. Fletcher Robinson, The Chronicles of Addington Peace

1905:

Arnold Bennett, The Loot of Cities

1906:

Alfred Henry Lewis, Confessions of a Detective

1906:

Robert Barr, The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont

1907:

Maurice Leblanc, The Exploits of Arsene Lupin

1907:

Jacques Futrelle, The Thinking Machine

1908:

George Randolph Chester, Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford

1908:

O. Henry, The Gentle Grafter

1908:

Baroness Orczy, The Old Man in the Corner

1909:

J.S. Fletcher, The Adventures of Archer Dawe (sleuth-hound)

1909:

R. Austin Freeman, John Thorndyke's Cases

1910:

Balduin Groller, Detective Dagobert's Deeds and Adventures

1910:

Thomas W. Hanshew, The Man of the Forty Faces

1910:

William MacHarg, The Achievements of Luther Trent

1911:

Samuel Hopkins Adams, Average Jones

1911:

G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown

1912:

Victor L. Whitechurch, Thrilling Stories of the Railway

1912:

Arthur B. Reeve, The Silent Bullet

1912:

Gelett Burgess, The Master of Mysteries

1912:

R. Austin Freeman, The Singing Bone

1913:

William Hope Hodgson, Carnacki the Ghost Finder

1913:

Anna Katharine Green, Masterpieces of Mystery

1913:

Hesketh Prichard, November Joe

1914:

Arthur Sherburne Hardy, Diane and Her Friends

1914:

Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados

1916:

Thomas Burke, Limehouse Nights

1917:

A.E.W. Mason, The Four Corners of the World

1918:

Ellis Parker Butler, Philo Gubb

1918:

Melville Davisson Post, Uncle Abner

1919:

John Russell, The Red Mark

1920:

J. Storer Clouston, Carrington's Cases

1920:

William Le Queux, Mysteries of a Great City

1920:

Vincent Starrett, The Unique Hamlet

1920:

Sax Rohmer, The Dream-detective

1920:

Arthur Train, Tutt and Mr. Tutt

1920:

H.C. Bailey, Call Mr. Fortune

1922:

Maurice Leblanc, The Eight Strokes of the Clock

1923:

Octavus Roy Cohen, Jim Hanvey, Detective

1924:

Agatha Christie, Poirot Investigates

1925:

Edgar Wallace, The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder

1926:

Louis Golding, Luigi of Catanzaro

1927:

Susan Glaspell, A Jury of Her Peers

1927:

Anthony Wynne, Sinners Go Secretly

1928:

Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Views the Body

1928:

G.D.H. Cole, Superintendent Wilson's Holiday

1928:

G.D.H. Cole, Superintendent Wilson's Holiday

1928:

W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden

1929:

Percival Wilde, Rogues in Clover

1929:

T.S. Stribling, Clues of the Caribbees

1929:

Harvey J. O'Higgins, Detective Duff Unravels It

1930:

Frederick Irving Anderson, The Book of Murder

1931:

F. Tennyson Jesse, The Solange Stories

1931:

Damon Runyon, Guys and Dolls

1932:

Georges Simenon, The Thirteen Culprits

1933:

Henry Wade, Policeman's Lot

1933:

Leslie Charteris, The Brighter Buccaneer

1934:

Irvin S. Cobb, Faith, Hope and Charity

1934:

Ellery Queen, The Adventures of Ellery Queen

1934:

Mignon G. Eberhart, The Cases of Susan Dare

1936:

Louis Golding, Pale Blue Nightgown

1936:

C. Daly King, The Curious Mr. Tarrant

1938:

E.C. Bentley, Trent Intervenes

1939:

Margery Allingham, Mr. Campion And Others

1940:

William MacHarg, The Affairs of O'Malley

1940:

John Dickson Carr, The Department of Queer Complaints

1942:

H. Bustos Domecq, Six Problems for Don Isidro Parod

1944:

Cornell Woolrich, After-Dinner Story

1944:

Raymond Chandler, Five Murderers

1944:

Dashiell Hammett, The Adventures of Sam Spade

1946:

Antonio Helu, The Compulsion to Murder