ANTHONY AWARDS BEST CRITICAL/NON-FICTION

2016:
The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story by Martin Edwards
Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald by Suzanne Marrs & Tom Nolan, editors
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid
The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett by Nathan Ward
The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook: Wickedly Good Meals and Desserts to Die For edited by Kate White

2015:  Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer’s Journey by Hank Phillippi Ryan, ed.  (Winner)
The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis by Charles Brownson
Death Dealer: How Cops and Cadaver Dogs Brought a Killer to Justice by Kate Clark Flora
Dru’s Book Musings by Dru Ann Love
Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe by J.W. Ocker

2014: The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower (Winner)
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova
The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines by Cate Lineberry
All the Wild Children by Josh Stallings
Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense by Sarah Weinman, ed.

2013:  Books to Die For: The World’s Greatest Mystery Writers on the World’s Greatest Mystery Novels by John Connolly and Declan Burke, eds. (Winner)
Blood Relations: The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen, 1947-1950 by Joseph Goodrich, ed.
More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered by D.P. Lyle, M.D.
The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie by Mathew Prichard, ed.
In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero by Otto Penzler, ed.

2012: The Sookie Stackhouse Companion edited by Charlaine Harris (Winner)
Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure by Leslie Budewitz
Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks by John Curran
On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda
Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film by Philippa Gates

2011:  Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: 50 Years of Mysteries in the Making by John Curran (Winner)
The Wire: Truth Be Told by Rafael Alvarez
Sherlock Holmes for Dummies by Stephen Doyle & David A. Crowder
Thrillers: 100 Must Reads edited by David Morrell & Hank Wagner
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang

2010:  Talking about Detective Fiction by P.D. James (Winner)
The Line Up: The World’s Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives by Otto Penzler, ed.
Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King by Lisa Rogak
Dame Agatha’s Shorts: An Agatha Christie Short Story Companion by Elena Santangelo
The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith by Joan Schenkar

2009:  Anthony Boucher: A Bibliography by Jeffrey Marks (Winner)
African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey
How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries by Kathy Lynn Emerson
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale

2008:  Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, & Charles Foley   (Winner)
The Essential Mystery Lists Compiled by Roger Sobin
The Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction by Patrick Anderson
Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction by Christiana Gregoriou

2007:  Mystery Muses Jim Huang & Austin Lugar, Editors (Winner)
The Beautiful Cigar Girl by Daniel Stashower
Don’t Murder Your Mystery by Chris Roerden
Read ’em Their Writes by Gary Warren Niebuhr
The Science of Sherlock Holmes by E. J. Wagoner

2006:  Heirs of Anthony Boucher by Marv Lachman (Winner)
Behind the Mystery by Stuart Kaminsky
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak
New Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Leslie S. Klinger
Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel by Hallie Ephron

2004: Make Mine a Mystery: A Reader’s Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction by Gary Warren Niebuhr

2003: They Died In Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated and Forgotten Mystery Novels, edited by Jim Huang

2002:  Seldom Disappointed by Tony Hillerman

2001:  100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century by Jim Huang, editor

2000:  Detecting Women, 3rd edition by Willetta Heising

1999:  Deadly Pleasures Magazine by George Easter, editor

1997: Detecting Women II by Willetta Heising

1996: The Armchair Detective Book of Lists, 2nd edition by Kate Stine

1995: Crime Fiction, 2nd edition by B.A. Pike & J. Cooper, editors

1994:  The Fine Art of Murder by Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg, Larry Segriff & Jon L. Breen, editors

1993:  Doubleday Crime Club Compendium by Ellen Nehr

1992:  100 Great Detectives by Maxim Jakubowski, editor

1991:  Synod of Sleuths by Jon L. Breen & Martin H. Greenberg, editors