Correction: Mystery Writers of America Announces 2007 Edgar Award Winners

Correction: Mystery Writers of America Announces 2007 Edgar Award Winners

NEW YORK, April 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mystery Writers of America (http://www.mysterywriters.org/) is proud to announce the winners of the 2007 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television and film published or produced in 2006.

BEST NOVEL
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson
(Random House)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Snakeskin Shamisen by Naomi Hirahara
(Bantam Dell Publishing - Delta Books)

BEST FACT CRIME
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
(HarperCollins - William Morrow)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear

by E.J. Wagner (John Wiley & Sons)

BEST SHORT STORY
"The Home Front" - Death Do Us Part by Charles Ardai
(Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown and Company)

BEST JUVENILE
Room One: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements
(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)

BEST YOUNG ADULT
Buried by Robin Merrow MacCready
(Penguin YR - Dutton Children's Books)

BEST PLAY
Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure by Steven Dietz
(Arizona Theatre Company)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
Life on Mars - Episode 1, Teleplay by Matthew Graham
(BBC America)

BEST TELEVISION FEATURE/MINI-SERIES TELEPLAY The Wire, Season 4, Teleplays by Ed Burns, Kia Corthron, Dennis Lehane, David

Mills, Eric Overmyer, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, David Simon & William

F. Zorzi
(Home Box Office)

BEST MOTION PICTURE SCREENPLAY
The Departed, Screenplay by William Monahan
(Warner Bros. Pictures)

The EDGAR (and logo) are Registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by the Mystery Writers of America, Inc.

Source: Mystery Writers of America

CONTACT: Margery Flax of Mystery Writers of America, +1-212-888-8272; or
Aziza Johnson of Danielides Communications, +1-212-319-7566, for Mystery
Writers of America

Web site:

http://www.mysterywriters.org/

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