Nominees

RIVER OF DARKNESS	by Rennie Airth (Viking Press)
L. A. REQUIEM	by Robert Crais (Doubleday)
STRAWBERRY SUNDAY	by Stephen Greenleaf (Scribner & Sons)
IN A DRY SEASON	by Peter Robinson (Avon)

Best First Novel by an American Author

THE SKULL MANTRA
by Eliot Pattison (St. Martin's Minotaur) 
 
Nominees

CERTIFIABLY INSANE	by Arthur W. Bahr (Simon & Schuster)
BIG TROUBLE	by Dave Barry (Putnam)
GOD IS A BULLET	by Boston Teran (Knopf)
INNER CITY BLUES	by Paula L. Woods Woods (W. W. Norton & Co.)

Best Paperback Original
FULTON COUNTY BLUES
by Ruth Birmingham (Berkley Prime Crime) 
 
Nominees

LUCKY MAN	by Tony Dunbar (Dell)
THE RESURRECTIONIST	by Mark Graham (Avon Books)
THE OUTCAST	by Jose Latour (Akashic Books)
IN BIG TROUBLE	by Laura Lippman (Avon)

Best Fact Crime
BLIND EYE
by James B. Stewart (Simon & Schuster) 
 
Nominees

THE GHOSTS OF HOPEWELL	by Jim Fisher (Southern Illinois University Press)
MEAN JUSTICE	by Edward Humes (Simon & Schuster)
AND NEVER LET HER GO	by Ann Rule (Simon & Schuster)
DISCO BLOODBATH	by James St. James (Simon & Schuster)

Best Critical/Biographical Work
TELLER OF TALES: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle
by Daniel Stashower (Henry Holt & Sons) 
 
Nominees

OXFORD COMPANION TO CRIME & MYSTERY WRITING	edited by Rosemary Herbert (Oxford University Press)
A SUITABLE JOB FOR A WOMAN	by Val McDermid (Poisoned Pen Press)
THE WEB OF INIQUITY: Early Detective Fiction By American Women	by Catherine Ross Nickerson (Duke University Press)
ROSS MACDONALD	by Tom Nolan (Scribner)

Best Short Story
"HEROES"
by Anne Perry (Murder and Obsession, edited by Otto Penzler)
(Delacorte Press) 
 
Nominees

"TRIANGLE"	by Jeffery Deaver (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine/March)
"SNOW"	by Stuart M. Kaminsky (First Cases,Vol. III, edited By Robert J. Randisi (Signet))
"PALETA MAN"	by Laurie R. King (Irreconcilable Differences, edited by Lea Matera (HarperCollins))
"CRACK"	James W. Hall (Murder and Obsession, edited by Otto Penzler, (Delacorte Press))

Best Juvenile
THE NIGHT FLYERS
by Elizabeth McDavid Jones (Pleasant Company Publications) 
 
Nominees

HOWIE BOWLES, SECRET AGENT	by Kate Banks, illus. by Isaac Millman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
SHADOW HORSE	by Alison Hart (Random House)
DOLPHIN LUCK	by Hilary McKay (McElderry Books division, Simon & Schuster)
GREEN THUMB	by Rob Thomas (Simon & Schuster)

Best Young Adult
NEVER TRUST A DEAD MAN
by Vivian Vande Velde (Harper Collins) 
 
Nominees

SPEAK	by Laurie Halse Anderson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
THAT KIND OF MONEY	by Vicki Cameron (Indigo Books)
THE GHOST IN THE TOKAIDO INN	by Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler (Delacorte Press)
MONSTER	by Walter Dean Myers (Harper Collins)

Best Television Episode
LAW & ORDER: "REFUGE, Part 2"
by Rene Balcer (NBC)
 
Nominees

LAW & ORDER: "HATE"	by Rene Balcer (NBC)
LAW & ORDER: "MERGER, Part 2"	by Lynn Mamet (NBC)
LAW & ORDER: "EMPIRE"	by Teleplay by Robert Palm, Story by Rene Balcer & Robert Palm (NBC)
LAW & ORDER: "KILLERZ"	by Richard Sweren (NBC)

Best Television Feature / Mini-series
A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER
by Steven Schachter & William H. Macy
(based on a novel by Donald Westlake (TNT))
 
Nominees

Dalziel & Pascoe: BONES AND SILENCE	by Alan Plater (based on a novel by Reginald Hill (A&E)
BIG BRASS RING	by George Hickenlooper & F. X. Feeney (Showtime)
MURDER IN A SMALL TOWN	by Gilbert Pearlman & Gene Wilder (A&E)
IN THE COMPANY OF SPIES	by Roger Towne (Showtime)

Best Movie
LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS
screenplay by Guy Ritchie (Polygram)
 
Nominees

COOKIE'S FORTUNE	screenplay by Anne Rapp (ORT)
RUN, LOLA, RUN	screenplay by Tom Tykwer (Sony Picture Classics)
THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY	screenplay by Anthony Minghella (Miramax)
TITUS	screenplay by Julie Taymor & William Shakespeare (Fox)

Best Play
THE ART OF MURDER
by Joe Di Pietro. Produced by Jonathan Pollard,
The American Stage Company's Becton Theatre, March 3, 1999
 
Nominees

EVERYBODY'S RUBY

by Thulani Davis. Produced by George C. Wolfe, The Joseph Papp Public Theatre, March 8, 1999

Grand Master
Mary Higgins Clark

Ellery Queen Award
to honor writing teams and outstanding people
in the mystery publishing industry
Susanne Kirk

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
for the best first short story by an American author
"Cro-Magnon, P.I." by Mike Reiss
(Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine July/August)