Raven Mystery Award Winners

Steven Bochco

Sylvia Burack, editor of The Writer

Marvin Lachman

The Library of America, for their publication of the collected writings of Raymond Chandler

Dr. Paul LeClerc, President, New York Public Library

President Bill Clinton, Reader of the Year

Harold Q. Masur, for his years of service to MWA as general counsel

Sarah Booth Conroy, Reader of the YearCarol Brener, for her skill in selling books to the public

The Bouchercon Annual World Mystery Convention
"Shear Madness," by Marilyn Abrams and Bruce Jordan (Cranberry Productions), for longest-running off-Broadway play

Angela LansburyVincent Price

Suzi Oppenheimer, Reader of the Year

Eudora Welty, Reader of the Year

Sylvia Porter, Reader of the Year

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Reader of the Year

"Muppet Murders" ("Muppets Show")

Alberto Tedeschi (Mondadori), publisher of the succesful Italian mystery series

I Am My Brother's Keeper, by Richard N. Hughes (WPIX) for being the best showcase for mystery stories
Danny Arnold, (ABC) as the executive producer of "Barney Miller" TV police series
Edward Gorey, for the sets he designed for "Dracula" on Broadway

Eddie Lawrence, Reader of the Year
Leo Margolies, as editor of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine

ABC-TV, for its World Wide Mystery series
Royal Shakespeare Company, for the company's revival of the play "Sherlock Holmes"
Radio Mystery Theatre (CBS), for the Hy Brown nightly mysteries.
Hardcover Book Jacket: Tales of the Black Widowers (Doubleday), Feral (Harper & Row), They Can't Hang Me (Harper & Row), Nella Waits (Putnam).
Softcover Book Jacket: The Hubschmann Effect (Pocket Books), The Mousetrap (Dell), Anima (Fawcett-Crest)

Hardcover Book Jacket: Reprisal (Dodd, Mead), Hail to the Chief (Random House), The Cold Ones (Simon & Schuster)
Softcover Book Jacket: The Abductor (Curtis Books), Inspector Maigret and the Madwoman (Curtis Books), Daughter of Darkness (Dell)

Hardcover Book Jacket: The Erection Set(E. P. Dutton), G. P. Putnam's Sons (Tricks of the Trade), Mrs. Knox's Profession (McKay), Dead Skip (Random House).
Softcover Book Jacket: Fetish Murders(Ace), Death Can Be Beautiful (Dell), Rolling Gravestones (Dell)

Hardcover Book Jacket: If You Want to See Your Wife Again (G. P. Putnam's Sons), Whim to Kill (Wm. Morrow), The Stalker (Random House).
Softcover Book Jacket: Black Man White Man (Ace), The Shadows of the House (Avon), The Lady of the Lake (Ballantine)

Judith Crist, Reader of the Year
Hardcover Book Jacket: Dodd, Mead (Act of Violence), If Laurel Shot Hardy the World Would End (Doubleday), If the Shroud Fits (Inner Sanctum).
Softcover Book Jacket: Last Case (Avon Classic Crime Collection), One Man Show (Avon), Picture Miss Seeton (Popular Library)

Hardcover Book Jacket: The Spanish Prisoner (E. P. Dutton ). Tales of Unease (Doubleday), The Black General (Wm. Morrow)
Softcover Book Jacket: Avon for Classic Crime Collection

Hardcover Book Jacket: God Speed the Night (Scribners), Die Quickly, Dear Mother (Doubleday ), Singapore Wink (Wm. Morrow).
Softcover Book Jacket: The Dresden Green (Ballantine), Nothing Is the Number When You Die (Ballantine), A Tangled Web (Berkley Books)

Joey Adams, Reader of the Year.Hardcover Book Jacket: Perturbing Spirit (Doubleday), The Reluctant Medium (Doubleday), Rain with Violence (A. A. Mills).Softcover Book Jacket: Johnny Underground (Ballantine), Malice Matrimonial(Ballantine), A Doll for the Toff (Pyramid Books)

Richard Watts Jr., Reader of the Year
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine on its twenty-sixth anniversary and as the best showcase for mystery stories.
Hardcover Book Jacket Let Sleeping Girls Lie (Wm. Morrow), The Crimson Madness of Little Doom (Doubleday), The Baron and the Mogul Sword (Scribners).
Softcover Book Jacket Some of Your Blood (Ballantine), Crowell-Collier; Bantam Books; I Am the Cat (Collier)

Hardcover Book Jacket Girl on the Run (Random House; Doubleday) Simon & Schuster; Viking.
Softcover Book Jacket Knock and Wait a While(Bantam), Dell; Popular Library

Dr. Milton Helpern, for his work in forensic medicine
Philip Wittenberg, for his long years of voluntary service (Scroll)
Hardcover Book Jacket: Doubleday; Simon & Schuster's Inner Sanctum Mysteries; Walker & Co.
Softcover Book Jacket: Bantam Books; Dell; Popular Library

Hardcover Book Jacket: Harper & Row; Simon & Schuster.
Softcover Book Jacket: Berkley Medallion Books; Popular Library

Hardcover Book Jacket: Doubleday.
Softcover Book Jacket: Collier Books

Book Jacket: Walker & Co.; Doubleday, Harper Bros.
The Defenders, a TV show in its first year

Ilka Chase, Reader of the Year
Hardcover Book Jacket: A Mark of Displeasure (Scribners).
Paperback Book Jacket: The Three Coffins (Dell)

Ray Brennan, for crime reporting
David C. Cook, for Best Detective Stories of the Year
Phyllis McGinley, Mystery Fan of the Year
Alfred Hitchcock, for his contribution to the mystery
Gail Jackson, producer of Perry Mason TV series

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (posthumous), Reader of the Year (Scroll accepted by Eleanor Roosevelt)
Lawrence G. Blochman, for long and distinguished service to MWA and The Third Degree
Frederic G. Melcher, on his retirement after thirty-five years with Publishers Weekly Western Printing & Lithographing Co., for Dell book jackets

Harper & Bros., for general excellence
Dell, a Scroll for their Great Mystery Series book jackets

Miss Dorothy Kilgallen, Reader of the Year
Hardcover Book Jacket: Inspector Maigret and the Burglar's Wife (Doubleday)

Book Jacket: Scribners

Berton Rouche, for his collection of stories of medical detection, Eleven Blue Men
Softcover Book Jacket: Dell

Dr. Harrison Martland, retiring medical examiner, Essex County, New Jersey
Dr. Thomas A. Gonzales, retiring medical examiner, New York City
Tom Lehrer for his mystery parodies

E. T. Guymon Jr., for his outstanding library of mystery literature.