Gold Dagger
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The Gold Dagger Award was an award given annually by the Crime Writers' Association for best crime novel of the year.
For its first five years, it was known as the Crossed Red Herring Award.
From 1995 to 2002 the award acquired sponsorship from Macallan and was known as the Macallan Gold Dagger.
In 2006, due to new sponsorship from the Duncan Lawrie Bank, the award was officially renamed the Duncan Lawrie Dagger, and gained a prize fund of £20,000, making it the biggest crime-fiction award in the world, in monetary terms.
For many years, a Silver Dagger Award was also awarded, essentially a runners-up trophy. However, when Duncan Lawrie acquired sponsorship, this award was dropped.
[edit] Winners
Winners and, where known, shortlisted titles for each year:
- 2006 (award re-named)
- Duncan Lawrie Dagger: Ann Cleeves, Raven Black
- Simon Beckett, The Chemistry of Death
- Thomas H. Cook, Red Leaves
- Frances Fyfield, Safer Than Houses
- Bill James, Wolves of Memory
- Laura Wilson, A Thousand Lies
- 2005
- Gold Dagger: Arnaldur Indridason, Silence of the Grave
- Silver Dagger: Barbara Nadel, Deadly Web
- Karin Fossum, Calling Out For You
- Friedrich Glauser, In Matto's Realm
- Carl Hiaasen, Skinny Dip
- Fred Vargas, Seeking Whom He May Devour
- 2004
- Gold Dagger: Sara Paretsky, Blacklist
- Silver Dagger: John Harvey, Flesh and Blood
- Mo Hayder, Tokyo
- Val McDermid, The Torment of Others
- James W Nichol, Midnight Cab
- Laura Wilson, The Lover
- 2003
- Gold Dagger: Minette Walters, Fox Evil
- Silver Dagger: Morag Joss, Half Broken Things
- Boris Akunin, The Winter Queen
- Robert Littell, The Company
- Carlo Lucarelli, Almost Blue
- Robert Wilson, The Blind Man Of Seville
- 2002
- Gold Dagger: Jose Carlos Somoza, The Athenian Murders
- Silver Dagger: James Crumley, The Final Country
- Mark Billingham, Scaredy Cat
- James Lee Burke, Jolie Blon's Bounce
- Michael Connelly, City of Bones
- Minette Walters, Acid Row
- 2001
- Gold Dagger: Henning Mankell, Sidetracked
- Silver Dagger: Giles Blunt, Forty Words For Sorrow
- Stephen Booth, Dancing with the Virgins
- Denise Danks, Baby Love
- George Pelecanos, Right as Rain
- Scott Phillips, The Ice Harvest
- 2000
- Gold Dagger: Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn
- Silver Dagger: Donna Leon, Friends In High Places
- James Lee Burke, Purple Cane Road
- Elliot Pattison, The Skull Mantra
- Lucy Wadham, Lost
- Martin Cruz Smith, Havana Bay
- 1999
- Gold Dagger: Robert Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon
- Silver Dagger: Adrian Mathews, Vienna Blood
- Val McDermid, A Place of Execution
- Ian Rankin, Dead Souls
- Michael Connelly, Angels Flight
- Denise Danks, Phreak
- Frances Fyfield, Staring at the Light
- 1998
- Gold Dagger: James Lee Burke, Sunset Limited
- Silver Dagger: Nicholas Blincoe, Manchester Slingback
- Michael Dibdin, A Long Finish
- Geoffrey Archer, Fire Hawk
- Reginald Hill, On Beulah Height
- George Pelecanos, King Suckerman
- 1997
- Gold Dagger: Ian Rankin, Black and Blue
- Silver Dagger: Janet Evanovich, Three to Get Deadly
- Frank Lean, The Reluctant Investigator
- 1996
- Gold Dagger: Ben Elton, Popcorn
- Silver Dagger: Peter Lovesey, Bloodhounds
- Jessica Mann, A Private enquiry
- 1995
- Gold Dagger: Val McDermid, The Mermaids Singing
- Silver Dagger: Peter Lovesey, The Summons
- Elizabeth Ironside, A Very private Enterprise
- Minette Walters, The Dark Room
- 1994
- Gold Dagger: Minette Walters, The Scold's Bridle
- Silver Dagger: Peter Hoeg, Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow
- Val McDermid, Crack Down
- Sara Paretsky, Tunnel Vision
- 1993
- Gold Dagger: Patricia Cornwell, Cruel and Unusual
- Silver Dagger: Sarah Dunant, Fatlands
- Robert Richards, The Hand of Strange Children
- Janet Neele, Deah Among the Dons
- 1992
- Gold Dagger: Colin Dexter, The Way Through the Woods
- Silver Dagger: Liza Cody, Bucket Nut
- 1991
- Gold Dagger: Barbara Vine, King Solomon's Carpet
- Silver Dagger: Frances Fyfield, Deep Sleep
- Janet Neele, Death of a Partner
- Michael Dibdin, Dirty Tricks
- 1990
- Gold Dagger: Reginald Hill, Bones and Silence
- Silver Dagger: Mike Philips, The Late Candidate
- John Harvey, Lonely Hearts
- 1989
- Gold Dagger: Colin Dexter, The Wench is Dead
- Silver Dagger: Desmond Lowden, The Shadow Run
- 1988
- Gold Dagger: Michael Dibdin, Ratking
- Silver Dagger: Sara Paretsky, Toxic Shock
- 1987
- Gold Dagger: Barbara Vine, A Fatal Inversion
- Silver Dagger: Scott Turow, Presumed Innocent
- Liza Cody, Under Contract
- 1986
- Gold Dagger: Ruth Rendell, Live Flesh
- Silver Dagger: P.D. James, A Taste for Death
- 1985
- Gold Dagger: Paula Gosling, Monkey Puzzle
- Silver Dagger: Dorothy Simpson, Last Seen Alive
- Andrew Taylor, Our Father's Lies
- Jill Paton Walsh, A Piece of Justice
- 1984
- Gold Dagger: B.M. Gill, The Twelfth Juror
- Silver Dagger: Ruth Rendell, The Tree of Hands
- 1983
- Gold Dagger: John Hutton, Accidental Crimes
- Silver Dagger: William McInnery, The Papers of Tony Vietch
- 1982
- Gold Dagger: Peter Lovesey, The False Inspector Dew
- Silver Dagger: S.T. Haymon, Ritual Murder
- 1981
- Gold Dagger: Martin Cruz Smith, Gorky Park
- Silver Dagger: Colin Dexter, The Dead of Jericho
- 1980
- Gold Dagger: H.R.F. Keating, The Murder of the Maharaja
- Silver Dagger: Ellis Peters, Monk's Hood
- 1979
- Gold Dagger: Dick Francis, Whip Hand
- Silver Dagger: Colin Dexter, Service of All the Dead
- 1978
- Gold Dagger: Lionel Davidson, The Chelsea Murders
- Silver Dagger: Peter Lovesey, Waxwork
- 1977
- Gold Dagger: John le Carre, The Honourable Schoolboy
- Silver Dagger: William McIlvanney, Laidlaw
- 1976
- Gold Dagger: Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View
- Silver Dagger: James McClure, Rogue Eagle
- 1975
- Gold Dagger: Nicholas Meyer, The Seven per cent Solution
- Silver Dagger: P.D. James, The Black Tower
- 1974
- Gold Dagger: Anthony Price,l Other Paths to Glory
- Silver Dagger: Francis Clifford, The Grosvenor Square Goodbye
- 1973
- Gold Dagger: Robert Littell, The Defection of A.J. Lewinter
- Silver Dagger: Gwendoline Butler, A Coffin for Pandora
- 1972
- Gold Dagger: Eric Ambler, The Levanter
- Silver Dagger: Victor Canning, The Rainbird Pattern
- 1971
- Gold Dagger: James McClure, The Steam Pig
- Silver Dagger: P.D. James, Shroud for A Nightingale
- 1970
- Gold Dagger: Joan Fleming, Young Man I Think You're Dying
- Silver Dagger: Anthony Price, The Labyrinth Makers
- 1969
- Gold Dagger: Peter Dickinson, A Pride of Heroes
- Silver Dagger: Francis Clifford, Another Way of Dying
- 1968
- Gold Dagger: Peter Dickinson, Skin Deep
- 1967
- Gold Dagger: Emma Lathen, Murder Against the Grain
- 1966
- Gold Dagger: Lionel Davidson, A Long way to Shiloh
- 1965
- Gold Dagger: Ross Macdonald, The Far Side of the Dollar
- 1964
- Gold Dagger: H.R.F. Keating, The Perfect Murder
- 1963
- Gold Dagger: John le Carre, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
- 1962
- Gold Dagger: Joan Fleming, When I Grow Rich
- 1961
- Gold Dagger: Mary Kelly, The Spoilt Kill
- 1960
- Gold Dagger: Lionel Davidson, The Night of Wenceslas
- 1959
- Crossed Red Herring Award: Eric Ambler, Passage of Arms
- 1958
- Crossed Red Herring Award: Margot Bennet, Someone from the Past
- 1957
- Crossed Red Herring Award: Julian Symons, The Colour of Murder
- 1956
- Crossed Red Herring Award: Edward Grierson, The Second Man
- 1955
- Crossed Red Herring Award: Winston Graham, The Little Walls
