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Shamus Award categories [2] Title Awarded since Best P. I. Hardcover Novel 1982 Best First P. I. Novel 1985 Best P. I. Paperback Original 1982 THE EYE – Lifetime Achievement Award 1982 Best P. I. Short Story 1983 St. Martins' Press/ PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Contest 1986 Friends of PWA 2002 Best P. I. Series/Characters – The Hammer 2007
The following writers have all received a Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. For the individual books and short stories that have received Shamus's, see Category:Shamus Award–winning works.
For Shamus-winning writers, see Category:Shamus Award winners. Pages in category "Shamus Award–winning works" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The Shamus Awards are literary awards for mystery writers. ... Shamus Award winners (1 C, 61 P) Shamus Award–winning works (8 P) Pages in category "Shamus Awards"
Marks’ first novel, the Shamus-Award-winning White Heat, takes place during the Rodney King Riots and deals with race and racism in the context of a mystery-thriller. Vortex, his second full-length work, is also set in Los Angeles and updates the noir theme of a soldier returning home from war feeling alienated.
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First published by W.W. Norton in 1990, [4] Devil In a Blue Dress won the 1991 Shamus Award in the category of "Best First P. I. Novel". [ 5 ] Herbert Mitgang of the New York Times described it as "a little overplotted" but believed it "mark[ed] the debut of a talented author with something vital to say about the distance between the black and ...
It won the 2006 Shamus Award and Macavity Award for "Best Novel". [2] [3] It was also nominated in the 2006 Anthony Awards for the same honor. [4] Additionally, in 2010 it was nominated in the "Best Mystery Novel of the Decade" category of the Barry Awards, although it lost to Stieg Larsson, author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. [5]