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The Dashiell Hammett Prize
Past Winners, Nominees, and Judges
2000
Winner: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday/McClelland & Stewart)
Nominees:
Hot Springs by Stephen Hunter (Simon & Schuster)
The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale (Mysterious Press)
The Ice Harvest by Scott Phillips (Ballantine)
One-Eyed Jacks by Brad Smith (Doubleday Canada)
Judges:
Bill Brownstein (The Montreal Gazette)
Elizabeth Macklin (poet)
David M. Van Leer (critic)
1999
Winner: Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith (Random House)
Nominees:
Heartwood by James Lee Burke (Doubleday)
L.A. Requiem by Rober Crais (Doubleday)
In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson (Avon)
Personal Injuries by Scott Turow (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Judges:
Lewis Lapham (Harper's Magazine)
Katha Pollitt (poet, critic, The Nation)
Marie Winn (author)
1998
Winner: Tidewater Blood by William Hoffman (Algonquin)
Nominees:
Praying to a Laughing God by Kevin McColley (Simon & Schuster)
The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa by Robert Noah (St. Martin's)
The Last Days of Il Duce by Domenic Stansberry (Permanant)
Tomato Red by Daniel Woodrell (Holt)
Judges:
Barbara Ehrenreich (author)
Nina King (Washington Post Book World)
Ann Porter (Key Porter Books)
1997
Winner: Trial of Passion by William Deverell (McClelland & Stewart)
Nominees:
Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke (Hyperion)
Trunk Music by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
A Wasteland of Strangers by Bill Pronzini (Walker)
Acts of Murder by L.R. Wright (Doubleday Canada)
Judges:
Margaret Cannon (Toronto Globe & Mail)
Mark Danner (author)
Victor Navasky (The Nation)
1996
Winner: Rose by Martin Cruz Smith (Random House)
Nominees:
The Poet by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
Buzz Cut by James W. Hall (Delacorte)
Innocent Graves by Peter Robinson (Viking)
Damaged Goods by Stephen Solomita (Scribner)
Judges:
C.H. Cherryh (author)
John Hollander (critic)
Andre Schiffrin (The New Press)
1995
Winner: Under the Beetle's Cellar by Mary Willis Walker (Doubleday)
Nominees:
Smithereens by Susan Taylor Chehak (Doubleday)
The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
Breakheart Hill by Thomas H. Cook (Bantam)
True Crime by Andrew Klavan (Crown)
Judges:
Robert Fulford (Toronto Globe & Mail)
Shannon Ravenel (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
Jane Urquhart (author)
1994
Winner: Dixie City Jam by James Lee Burke (Hyperion)
Nominees:
Dogs of God by Pinckney Benedict (Doubleday)
Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore (Doubleday)
Third and Indiana by Steve Lopez (Viking)
Shinju by Laura Joh Rowland (Random House)
Judges:
Frederick Barthelme (author)
Alan Cheuse (All Things Considered)
Esther Margolis (Newmarket Press)
1993
Winner: The Mexican Tree Duck by James Crumley (Mysterious Press)
Nominees:
The Black Ice by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
By Evil Means by Sandra West Prowell (Walker)
Catilina's Riddle by Steven Saylor (St. Martin's Press)
An Occasional Hell by Randall Silvis (Permanent Press)
Judges:
Margaret Atwood (author)
Digby Diehl (critic)
David R. Godine (Publisher, Godine)
1992
Winner: Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman (Putnam)
Special Mention: The Ones You Do by Daniel Woodrell (Holt)
Nominees:
Trick of the Eye by Jane Stanton Hitchcock (Dutton)
White Butterfly by Walter Mosley (Norton
Humans by Donald E. Westlake (Mysterious Press)
Judges:
Joni Evans (Turtle Bay)
Herbert Gold (author)
Raymond Sokolov (The Wall Street Journal)
1991
Winner: Maximum Bob by Elmore Leonard (Delacorte)
Nominees:
Elsinore by Jerome Charyn (Mysterious Press)
Murther & Walking Spirits by Robertson Davis (Viking)
Harlot's Ghost by Norman Mailer (Random House)
The Women of Whitechapel & Jack the Ripper by Paul West (Random House)
Judges:
Joyce Carol Oates (author)
Elizabeth Pochoda (Entertainment Weekly)
Alan D. Williams (Grove Press)
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