Gold Dagger

Silver Dagger

John Creasey Memorial

Last Laugh

Diamond Dagger and other awards

1999

Ellis Peters Historical Dagger: Two For the Lions by Lindsey Davis Diamond Dagger: Margaret Yorke

1998

James Lee Burke for Sunset Limited

Nicholas Blincoe for Manchester Slingback

Denise Mina for Garnethill

1997

Ian Rankin for Black & Blue

Janet Evanovich for Three to Get Deadly

Paul Johnston for Body Politic

Diamond Dagger: Ed McBain

1996

Ben Elton for Popcorn

Peter Lovesey for Bloodhounds

Janet Evanovich for Two for the Dough

First Blood Award for Best First Crime Novel: Christopher Brookmyre for Quite Ugly One Morning
Rusty Dagger: Dorothy L. Sayers for The Nine Tailors
Diamond Dagger: Colin Dexter

1995

Val McDermid for The Mermaids Singing

Peter Lovesey for The Summons

Janet Evanovich for One for the Money

Laurence Shames for Sunburn

1994

Minette Walters for The Scold's Bride

Doug J. Swanson for Big Town

Diamond Dagger: Reginald Hill

1993

Patricia D. Cornwell for Cruel and Unusual

Susan Dunant for Fatlands

Michael Pearce for The Mamur Zapt & The Spoils of Egypt

Diamond Dagger: Edith Pargeter (aka Ellis Peters).

1992

Colin Dexter for The Way Through the Woods

Liza Cody for Bucket Nut

Minette Walters for The Ice House

Carl Hiaasen for Native Tongue

CWA '92 Award: Timothy Williams for Black August
Diamond Dagger: Leslie Charteris

1991

Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) for King Solomon's Carpet

Frances Fyfield for Deep Sleep

Walter Mosley for Devil in the Blue Dress

Mike Ripley for Angels in Arms

CWA '92 Award: Barbara Wilson for Gaudi Afternoon
Diamond Dagger: Ruth Rendell

1990

Reginald Hill for Bones and Silence

Mike Phillips for The Late Candidate

Patricia D. Cornwell for Postmortem

Simon Shaw for Killer Cinderella

CWA '92 Award: Michael Dibdin for Vendetta
Diamond Dagger: Julian Symons

1989

Colin Dexter for The Wench Is Dead

Desmond Lowden for The Shadow Run

Annette Roome for A Real Shot in the Arm

Mike Ripley for Angel Touch

Diamond Dagger: Dick Francis

1988

Michael Dibdin for Ratking

Sara Paretsky for Toxic Shock (aka Blood Shot)

Janet Neel for Death's Bright Angel

Nancy Livingston for Death in a Distant Land

Diamond Dagger: John le Carré

1987

Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) for A Fatal Inversion

Scott Turow for homesumed Innocent

Dennis Kilcommons for Dark Apostle

Police Review Award: Roger Busby for Snowman
Diamond Dagger: P. D. James

1986

Ruth Rendell for Live Flesh

P. D. James for A Taste for Death

Neville Steed for Tinplate

Police Review Award: Bill Knox for The Crossfire Killings
Diamond Dagger: Eric Ambler

1985

Paula Gosling for Monkey Puzzle

Dorothy Simpson for Last Seen Alive

Robert Richardson for The Latimer Mercy

Police Review Award: Andrew Arncliffe for After the Holiday

1984

B. M. Gill for The Twelfth Juror

Ruth Rendell for The Tree of Hands

Elizabeth Ironside for A Very Private Enterprise

1983

John Hutton for Accidental Crimes

William McIlvanney for The Papers of Tony Veitch

Carol Clemeau for The Ariadne Clue, and Eric Wright for The Night the Gods Smiled

1982

Peter Lovesey for The False Inspector Dew

S. T. Haymon for Ritual Murder

Andrew Taylor for Caroline Minuscule

1981

Martin Cruz Smith for Gorky Park

Colin Dexter for The Dead of Jericho

James Leigh for The Ludi Victor

1980

H. R. F. Keating, for The Murder of the Maharajah

Ellis Peters for Monk's Hood

Liza Cody for Dupe

1979

Dick Francis for Whip Hand

Colin Dexter for Service of All the Dead

David Serafin for Saturday of Glory

1978

Lionel Davidson for The Chelsea Murders

Peter Lovesey for Waxwork

Paula Gosling for A Running Duck

1977

John le Carré for The Honourable Schoolboy

William McIlvanney for Laidlaw

Jonathan Gash for The Judas Pair

1976

Ruth Rendell for A Demon in My View

James McClure for Rogue Eagle

Patrick Alexander for Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal

1975

Nicholas Meyer for The Seven Per Cent Solution

P. D. James for The Black Tower

Sara George for Acid Drop

1974

Anthony Price for Other Paths to Glory

Francis Clifford for The Grosvenor Square Goodbye

Roger Simon for The Big Fix

1973

Robert Littell for The Defection of A. J. Lewinter

Gwendoline Butler for A Coffin for Pandora

Kyril Bonfiglioli for Don't Point That Thing at Me

1972

Eric Ambler for The Levanter

Victor Canning for The Rainbird Pattern

1971

James McClure for The Steam Pig

P. D. James for Shroud for a Nightingale

1970

Joan Fleming for Young Man, I Think You're Dying

Anthony Price for The Labyrinth Makers

1969

Peter Dickson for A Pride of Heroes

Francis Clifford for Another Way of Dying

Best Foreign: Rex Stout for The Father Hunt

1968

Peter Dickinson for Skin Deep

Best Foreign: Sebastien Japrisot for The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun

1967

Emma Lathen for Murder Against the Grain

Best British: Eric Ambler for Dirty Story

1966

Lionel Davidson for A Long Way to Shiloh

Best Foreign: John Ball for In the Heat of the Night

1965

Ross Macdonald for The Far Side of the Dollar

Best British: Gavin Lyall for Midnight Plus One

1964

H. R. F. Keating, for The Perfect Murder

Best Foreign: Patricia Highsmith for The Two Faces of January

1963

John le Carré for The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

1962

Joan Fleming for When I Grow Rich

1961

Mary Kelly for The Spoilt Kill

1960

Lionel Davidson for The Night of Wenceslas

1959

Eric Ambler for Passage of Arms

1958

Margot Bennett for Someone from the Past

1957

Julian Symons for The Colour of Murder

1956

Edward Grierson for The Second Man

1955

Winston Graham for The Little Walls