The Macavity Awards are a literary award for mystery writers. Nominated and voted upon annually by the members of the Mystery Readers International, the award is named for the "mystery cat" of T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.[1] The award is given in four categories -- best novel, best first novel, best nonfiction, and best short story. In recent years a new award, the Sue Feder Historical Mystery, has been given in conjunction with the Macavity Awards.
Awards
Best Mystery Novel
Best First Mystery
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- and Zero at the Bone by Mary Willis Walker
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- and A Case of Loyalties by Marilyn Wallace
Best Nonfiction
Note: Until 2004, this category was named "Best Critical/Biographical Mystery Work"
- 2007: Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today's Mystery Writers edited by Jim Huang and Austin Lugar (Crum Creek)
- 2006: Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak (Harcourt)
- 2005: Forensics for Dummies by D. P. Lyle, MD (Wiley Publishing)
- 2004: Make Mine a Mystery: A Reader's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction by Gary Warren Niebuhr (Libraries Unlimited)
- 2003: They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated, and Forgotten Mystery Novels, edited by Jim Huang (Crum Creek Press)
- 2002: Writing the Mystery: A Start to Finish Guide for Both Novice and Professional by G. Miki Hayden (Intrigue)
- 2001: The American Regional Mystery by Marvin Lachman (Crossover Press)
- 2000: Ross Macdonald by Tom Nolan (Scribner)
- 1999: Killer Books by Jean Swanson & Dean James (Berkley)
- 1998: Deadly Women by Jan Grape, Dean James and Ellen Nehr (Carroll & Graf)
- 1997: Detecting Women 2 by Wiletta Heising (Purple Moon Press)
- 1996: Detecting Women by Willetta Heising (Purple Moon)
- 1995: By a Woman's Hand by Dean James & Jean Swanson
- 1994: The Fine Art of Murder edited by Ed Gorman
- 1993: Doubleday Crime Club Compendium by Ellen Nehr
- 1992: Talking Mysteries: A Conversation with Tony Hillerman by Tony Hillerman & Ernie Bulow
- 1991: Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries by Gillian Gill
- 1990: The Bedside Companion to Crime by H. R. F. Keating
- 1989: Silk Stalkings by Victoria Nichols & Susan Thompson
- 1988: Son of Gun in Cheek by Bill Pronzini
- 1987: 1001 Midnights by Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini
Best Short Story
- 2007: "Til Death Do Us Part" by Tim Maleeny (MWA Presents Death Do Us Part: New Stories about Love, Lust, and Murder, edited by Harlan Coben; Little, Brown)
- 2006: "There Is No Crime on Easter Island" by Nancy Pickard (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sept-Oct 2005)
- 2005: "The Widow of Slane" by Terence Faherty (EQMM, March/April 2004)
- 2004: "The Grass Is Always Greener" by Sandy Balzo (EQMM, March 2003)
- 2003: "Voice Mail" by Janet Dawson (Scam and Eggs, Five Star)
- 2002: "The Abbey Ghosts" by Jan Burke (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Jan 2001)
- 2001: "A Candle for Christmas" by Reginald Hill (EQMM, January 2000)
- 2000: "Maubi and the Jumbies" by Kate Grilley, in Murderous Intent, Fall 1999
- 1999: "Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is a Vegetable" by Barbara D'Amato in EQMM, Nov. 98
- 1998: "Two Ladies of Rose Cottage" by Peter Robinson in Malice Domestic 6 (Pocket Books)
- 1997: "Cruel & Unusual" by Carolyn Wheat from Guilty As Charged (Pocket)
- 1996: "Evans Tries an O-Level" by Colin Dexter from Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories (Crown)
- 1995: (tie) "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" by Deborah Adams and "Unharmed" by Jan Burke
- 1994: "Checkout" by Susan Dunlap
- 1993: "Henrie O's Holiday" by Carolyn Hart
- 1992: "Deborah's Judgement" by Margaret Maron
- 1991: "Too Much to Bare" by Joan Hess
- 1990: "Afraid All the Time" by Nancy Pickard
- 1989: "Deja Vu" by Doug Allyn
- 1988: "The Woman in the Wardrobe" by Robert Barnard
- 1987: "The Parker Shotgun" by Sue Grafton
Sue Feder Historical Mystery
- 2007: Oh Danny Boy by Rhys Bowen (Minotaur)
- 2006: Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear (Henry Holt)
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