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Revised:  2008

Best First Novel Edgar Winners Available at Partners & Crime
Mostly First Editions & Many SIGNED 
Year Edgar Winner for Best First Novel by an American Author Author Publisher Available at
Partners & Crime
2008  In the Woods Tana French Penguin Group - Viking

 First US edition. F/F.
 SIGNED

$250
2007 The Faithful Spy  Alex Berenson Random House    
 2006  Officer Down  Theresa Schwegel  St. Martin's Press/Minotaur

  First US edition. F/F. SIGNED

 $95
 2005  Country of Origin  Don Lee  W.W. Norton & Company

 First US edition. F/F.

$75
 2004  Death of a Nationalist  Rebecca Pawel  Soho Press

  First US edition. F/F.
 SIGNED

$175
 2003  The Blue Edge of Midnight  Jonathon King  Dutton

First US edition. F/F.
 SIGNED

$150
 2002  Line of Vision  David Ellis  G. P. Putnam's Sons

  First US edition. F/F.
 SIGNED

$75
SOLD
 2001  Conspiracy of Paper  David Liss  Random House

First US edition. F/F.
 SIGNED

$125
 2000  The Skull Mantra  Eliot Pattison  St. Martin's Press

  First US edition. F/F.
 SIGNED

$75
 1999  A Cold Day in Paradise  Steve Hamilton  St. Martin's Press

 First US edition. F/F.
 SIGNED

$125
 1998  Los Alamos  Joseph Kanon  Broadway Books

  First US edition. F/F.
 SIGNED

$125
 1997  Simple Justice  John Morgan Wilson  Doubleday

 First US edition. F/F.
 SIGNED

$75
 1996  Penance  David Housewright  Foul Play/Countryman Press

First US edition. F/F.

$150
 1995  The Caveman's Valentine  George Dawes Green  Warner Books

 First US edition. NF/NF.
SIGNED

$150
 1994  A Grave Talent  Laurie R. King  St. Martin's Press

  First US edition. F/F.
first state -
second state -
both SIGNED

 $950
  $450
 1993  The Black Echo  Michael Connelly  Little, Brown

 First US edition. F/F.
SIGNED

$875
SOLD
 1992  Slow Motion Riot  Peter Blauner  Wm. Morrow

  First US edition. F/F.
SIGNED

$75

 1991  Postmortem  Patricia D. Cornwell  Scribners

    First US edition. NF/F.
SIGNED bookplate laid in

$1650
 1990  The Last Billable Hour  Susan Wolfe  St. Martin's Press    
 1989  Carolina Skeletons  David Stout  Mysterious Press    
 1988  Death Among Strangers  Deidre S. Laiken  Macmillan    
 1987  No One Rides for Free  Larry Beinhart  Wm. Morrow

  First US edition. NF/NF.
SIGNED

 $100
 1986  When the Bough Breaks  Jonathan Kellerman  Atheneum

 First US edition. NF/NF.
SIGNED

 $175
 1985  Strike Three, You're Dead  R.D. Rosen  Walker

 First US edition. F/F.
SIGNED

  $175
 1984  The Bay Psalm Book Murder  Will Harriss  Walker    
 1983  The Butcher's Boy  Thomas Perry  Scribners

   First US edition. NF/NF.
SIGNED

$2200
 
 1982  Chiefs  Stuart Woods  W.W. Norton & Co. 2nd printing.
VG/G.
$25
 1981  The Watcher  K. Nolte Smith  Coward, McCann & Geoghegan    
 1980  The Lasko Tangent  Richard North Patterson  W.W. Norton & Co.

 First US edition. F/NF.

$750

 1979  Killed in the Ratings  William L. DeAndrea  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich    
 1978  A French Finish  Robert Ross  Putnam    
 1977  The Thomas Berryman Number  James Patterson  Little, Brown    
 1976  The Alvarez Journal  Rex Burns  Harper & Row    
 1975  Fletch  Gregory McDonald  Bobbs-Merrill

  First US edition. F/F.
SIGNED

$475
 1974  The Billion Dollar Sure Thing  Paul E. Erdman  Scribners    
 1973  Squaw Point  R.H. Shimer  Harper & Row    
 1972  Finding Maubee  A.H.Z. Carr  Putnam    
 1971  The Anderson Tapes  Lawrence Sanders  Putnam    
 1970  A Time of Predators  Joe Gores  Random House    First US edition. NF/NF.
SIGNED
$275
 1969  The Bait  Dorothy Uhnak  Simon & Schuster    
 1969  Tie: Silver Street  E. Richard Johnson  Harper & Row    
 1968  Act of Fear  Michael Collins  Dodd, Mead    
 1967  The Cold War Swap  Ross Thomas  Morrow    
 1966  In The Heat of the Night  John Ball  Harper & Row   First US edition. NF/NF. $575
 1965  Friday the Rabbi Slept Late  Harry Kemelman  Crown    
 1964  Florentine Finish  Cornelius Hirschberg  Harper & Row    
 1963  The Fugitive  Robert L. Fish  Simon & Schuster    
 1962  The Green Stone  Suzanne Blanc  Harper    
 1961  The Man in the Cage  John Holbrooke Vance  Random House    
 1960  The Grey Flannel Shroud  Henry Slesar  Random House   First US edition. VG/NF.
SIGNED
$575
 1959  The Bright Road to Fear  Richard Martin Stern  Ballantine    
 1958  Knock and Wait a While  William Rawle Weeks  Houghton Mifflin    
 1957  Rebecca's Pride  Donald McNutt Douglass  Harper

First US edition. VG/NF.

$450

 1956  The Perfectionist  Lane Kauffman  Lippincott    
 1955  Go, Lovely Rose  Jean Potts  Scribners    
 1954  A Kiss Before Dying  Ira Levin  Simon & Schuster    
 1953  Don't Cry for Me  William Campbell Gault  Dutton    
 1952  Strangle Hold  Mary McMullen  Harper    
 1951  Nightmare in Manhattan  Thomas Walsh  Little, Brown

 First US edition. NF/NF.

 $175

 1950  What A Body  Alan Green  Simon & Schuster    
 1949  The Room Upstairs  Mildred Davis  Simon & Schuster    
 1948  The Fabulous Clipjoint  Fredric Brown  Dutton

 First US edition.
Fair/no jacket.

 $25

 1947  The Horizontal Man  Helen Eustis  Harper    
 1946  Watchful at Night  Julius Fast  Rinehart & Co.