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The Agatha Awards are literary awards for mystery and crime writers who write mystery novels in the traditional method exemplified by Agatha Christie. They are named for Agatha Christie, the best selling mystery writer of all time. At an annual convention in Washington, D.C., the Agatha Awards are handed out by Malice Domestic Ltd, in five categories: Best Novel; Best First Mystery; Best Short Story; Best Non-Fiction; Best Children's/Young Adult Mystery. Malice Domestic Ltd was established in 1989, and was incorporated as a corporation in 1992. It is governed by a volunteer board of directors. According to them the genre for an Agatha novel is loosely defined as mysteries which contain no explicit sex or excessive gore or violence. It usually features an amateur detective, journalist, or an ordinary citizen, in a confined setting, with characters who know one another.

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Awards

Best First Novel

2006 - The Heat of the Moon by Sandra Parshall (Poisoned Pen Press)
2005 - Better Off Wed by Laura Durham (HarperCollins Publishers)
2004 - Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak (Doubleday)
2003 - Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho Press Inc.)
2002 - In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming (St. Martin's Minotaur)
2001 - Bubbles Unbound, Sarah Strohmeyer (Dutton)
2000 - Death on a Silver Tray by Rosemary Stevens (Berkley Prime Crime)
1999 - Murder with Peacocks by Donna Andrews (Thomas Dunne Books)
1998 - The Doctor Digs A Grave by Robin Hathaway (St. Martin's Minotaur)
1997 - The Salaryman's Wife by Sujata Massey (HarperCollins)
1996 - Murder On A Girl's Night Out by Anne George (Avon Books)
1995 - The Body in the Transept by Jeanne M. Dams (Walker)
1994 - Do Unto Others by Jeff Abbott (Ballantine)
1993 - Track Of The Cat by Nevada Barr (Putnam)
1992 - Blanche On The Lam by Barbara Neely (St. Martin's Press)
1991 - Zero At The Bone by Mary Willis Walker (St. Martin's Press)
1990 - The Body In The Belfry by Katherine Hall Page (St. Martin's Press)
1989 - Grime And Punishment by Jill Churchill (Avon Books)
1988 - A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George (Bantam)

Best Novel

2006 - The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard (Random House)
2005 - The Body in the Snowdrift by Katherine Hall Page (William Morrow)
2004 - Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho Press)
2003 - Letter From Home by Carolyn Hart (Berkley Prime Crime)
2002 - You've Got Murder by Donna Andrews (Berkley Prime Crime)
2001 - Murphy's Law, Rhys Bowen (St Martin's Minotaur Books)
2000 - Storm Track, Margaret Maron (Mysterious Press)
1999 - Mariner's Compass by Earlene Fowler (Berkley Publishing Group)
1998 - Butchers Hill by Laura Lippman (Avon Books)
1997 - The Devil In Music by Kate Ross (Viking)
1996 - Up Jumps The Devil by Margaret Maron (Mysterious Press)
1995 - If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him by Sharyn McCrumb (Ballantine)
1994 - She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb (Scribner)
1993 - Dead Man's Island by Carolyn Hart (Bantam)
1992 - Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron (Mysterious Press)
1991 - I.O.U. by Nancy Pickard (Pocket )
1990 - Bum Steer by Nancy Pickard (Pocket )
1989 - Naked Once More by Elizabeth Peters (Warner)
1988 - Something Wicked by Carolyn G. Hart (Bantam)

Best Non-Fiction

2006 - Don't Murder Your Mystery by Chris Roerden (Bella Rosa Books)
2005 - Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak (Harcourt)
2004 - Private Eye-Lashes: Radio’s Lady Detectives by Jack French (Bear Manor Media)
2003 - Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium, edited by Elizabeth Peters and Kristen Whitbread; designed by Dennis Forbes. (William Morrow & Company)
2002 - They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated, and Forgotten Mystery Novels, edited by Jim Huang (Crum Creek Press)
2001 - Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir by Tony Hillerman (HarperCollins)
2000 - 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century, edited by Jim Huang (Crum Creek Press)
1999 - Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle by Daniel Stashower (Henry Holt & Company)
1998 - Mystery Reader's Walking Guide To Washington D.C. by Alzina Stone Dale (Passport Books)
1997 - Detecting Men (Pocket Guide) by Willeta L. Heising (Purple Moon Press)
1996 - Detecting Women 2 by Willetta L. Heising (Purple Moon Press)
1995 - Mystery Readers Walking Guide-Chicago by Alzina Stone Dale (Passport Books, NTC Publishing Group)
1994 - By A Woman's Hand by Jean Swanson and Dean James (Berkley Publishing Group)
1993 - The Doctor, The Murder, The Mystery by Barbara D'Amato (Noble Press)

Best Short Story

2006 - Sleeping with the Plush by Toni Kelner Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
2005 - Driven to Distraction by Marcia Talley-Chesapeake Crimes II, Quiet Storm Publishing
2004 - Wedding Knife by Elaine Viets (Chesapeake Crimes, Coordinating Editor: Donna Andrews, Quiet Storm Publishing)
2003 - No Man’s Land by Elizabeth Foxwell in Blood On Their Hands (Berkley Prime Crime)
2002 - The Dog That Didn't Bark by Margaret Maron, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 2002 and Too Many Cooks by Marcia Talley, Much Ado About Murder, edited by Anne Perry (Berkley Prime Crime)
2001 - The Would-Be-Widower by Katherine Hall Page, Malice Domestic X (Avon Books)
2000 - The Man in the Civil Suit by Jan Burke, Malice Domestic 9 (Avon Books)
1999 - Out of Africa by Nancy Pickard, Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder (Berkley Publishing Group)
1998 - Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is A Vegetable by Barbara D’Amato, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 1998
1997 - Tea for Two by M.D. Lake, Funnybones (Penguin)
1996 - Accidents Will Happen by Carolyn Wheat, Malice Domestic 5 (Pocket)
1995 - The Dog Who Remembered Too Much by Elizabeth Daniels Squire, Malice Domestic 4 (Pocket)
1994 - The Family Jewels by Dorothy Cannell, Malice Domestic 3 (Pocket)
1993 - Kim's Game by M.D. Lake, Malice Domestic 2 (Pocket)
1992 - Nice Gorilla by Aaron and Charlotte Elkins, Malice Domestic 1 (Pocket)
1991 - Deborah's Judgment by Margaret Maron, A Woman's Eye (Delacourte Press)
1990 - Too Much To Bare by Joan Hess, Sisters in Crime 2 (Berkley Publishing Group)
1989 - A Wee Doch And Doris by Sharyn McCrumb, Mistletoe Mysteries (Mysterious Press )
1988 - More Final Than Divorce by Robert Barnard, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Best Children/Young Adult Fiction

2006 - Pea Soup Poisonings by Nancy Means Wright (Hilliard & Harris)
2005 - Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams, HarperCollins Publishers and Flush by Carl Hiaasen (Alfred A. Knopf)
2004 - Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett (Scholastic Press)
2003 - The 7th Knot by Kathleen Karr (Marshall Cavendish)
2002 - Red Card: A Zeke Armstrong Mystery (The Zeke Armstrong Mysteries, 1) by Daniel J. Hale & Matthew LaBrot (Top Publications)
2001 - ''Mystery Of The Haunted Caves: A Troop 13 Mystery by Penny Warner (Meadowbrook Press)