THE CWA GOLD DAGGER
The Crime Writers' Association first created its award for best crime novel of the year in 1955, under the name of the Crossed Red Herrings Award: the first winner was Winston Graham for The Little Walls. The award was renamed the Gold Dagger in 1960. From 1969 to 2005, a Silver Dagger was also awarded to the runner up.
Between 1995 and 2002, the awards were sponsored by The Macallan, distillers of the finest Single Highland Malt Whisky, and named The Macallan Gold and Silver Daggers.
For the three years 2006 to 2008 the Gold Dagger was renamed the Duncan Lawrie Dagger in honour of its sponsor, the Duncan Lawrie Private Bank.
Up to and including 2005, books in translation were eligible for this prize. In 2006 on, a separate Dagger, The CWA International Dagger was introduced for books in translation, recogniseing the work of the translator as well as that of the original author.
- The CWA Gold Dagger
- 2011: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Macmillan) - Tom Franklin
- 2010: Blacklands (Transworld) - Belinda Bauer
- 2009: A Whispered Name (Little, Brown) - William Brodrick
- The CWA Duncan Lawrie Gold Dagger
- 2008: Blood From Stone (Sphere) - Frances Fyfield
- 2007: The Broken Shore (Quercus) - Peter Temple
- 2006: Raven Black (Pan Macmillan) - Ann Cleeves
- The CWA Gold and Silver Daggers for Fiction
- 2005 Gold: Silence of the Grave (The Harvill Press) - Arnaldur Indridason (translator: Bernard Scudder)
Silver: Deadly Web (Headline) - Barbara Nadel - 2004 Gold: Blacklist (Hamish Hamilton)- Sara Paretsky
Silver: Flesh and Blood (Heinemann)- John Harvey - 2003 Gold: Fox Evil (Macmillan) - Minette Walters
Silver: Half-Broken Things (Hodder & Stoughton) - Morag Joss - The Macallan Gold and Silver Daggers for Fiction
- 2002 Gold: The Athenian Murders (Abacus) - Jose Carlos Samoza
Silver: The Final Country (HarperCollins) - James Crumley - 2001 Gold: Sidetracked (The Harvill Press) - Henning Mankell
Silver: Forty Words for Sorrow (HarperCollins) - Giles Blunt - 2000 Gold: Motherless Brooklyn (Faber & Faber) - Jonathan Lethem
Silver: Friends in High Places (Heinneman) - Donna Leon - 1999 Gold: A Small Death in Lisbon (HarperCollins) - Robert Wilson
Silver: Vienna Blood (Cape) - Adrian Mathews - 1998 Gold: Sunset Limited (Orion) - James Lee Burke
Silver: Manchester Slingback (Picador) - Nicholas Blincoe - 1997 Gold: Black And Blue (Orion) - Ian Rankin
Silver: Three to get Deadly (Viking) - Janet Evanovich - 1996 Gold: Popcorn - Ben Elton
Silver: Bloodhounds (LittleBrown) - Peter Lovesey - 1995 Gold: The Mermaids Singing - Val McDermid
Silver: The Summons (LittleBrown) - Peter Lovesey - The CWA Gold and Silver Daggers for Fiction
- 1994 Gold: The Scold's Bridle - Minette Walters
Silver: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow Peter Hoeg - 1993 Gold: Cruel and Unusual - Patricia Cornwell
Silver: Fatlands - Sarah Dunant - 1992 Gold: The Way Through the Woods - Colin Dexter
Silver: Bucket Nut - Liza Cody - 1991 Gold: King Solomon's Carpet - Barbara Vine
Silver: Deep Sleep - Frances Fyfield - 1990 Gold: Bones and Silence - Reginald Hill
Silver: The Late Candidate Mike Phillips - 1989 Gold: The Wench is Dead - Colin Dexter
Silver: The Shadow Run - Desmond Lowden - 1988 Gold: Ratking - Michael Dibdin
Silver: Toxic Shock Sara Paretsky - 1987 Gold: A Fatal Inversion - Barbara Vine
Silver: Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow - 1986 Gold: Live Flesh - Ruth Rendell
Silver: A Taste for DeathPD James - 1985 Gold: Monkey Puzzle - Paula Gosling
Silver: Last Seen Alive - Dorothy Simpson - 1984 Gold: The Twelfth Juror - B.M.Gill
Silver: The Tree of Hands Ruth Rendell - 1983 Gold: Accidental Crimes - John Hutton
Silver: The Papers of Tony Veitch - William McIlvanney - 1982 Gold: The False Inspector Dew - Peter Lovesey
Silver: Ritual Murder - ST Haymon - 1981 Gold: Gorky Park - Martin Cruz Smith
Silver: The Dead of Jericho - Colin Dexter - 1980 Gold: The Murder of the Maharajah - H.R.F.Keating
Silver: Monk's Hood - Ellis Peters - 1979 Gold: Whip Hand - Dick Francis
Silver: Service of all the Dead - Colin Dexter - 1978 Gold: The Chelsea Murders - Lionel Davidson
Silver: Waxwork - Peter Lovesey - 1977 Gold: The Honourable Schoolboy - John le Carré
Silver: Laidlaw - William McIlvanney - 1976 Gold: A Demon in my View - Ruth Rendell
Silver: Rogue Eagle - James McClure - 1975 Gold: The Seven per cent solution - Nicholas Meyer
Silver: The Black Tower - PD James - 1974 Gold: Other Paths to Glory - Anthony Price
Silver: The Grosvenor Square Goodbye - Francis Clifford - 1973 Gold: The Defection of A.J.Lewinter - Robert Littell
Silver: A Coffin for Pandora - Gwendoline Butler - 1972 Gold: The Levanter - Eric Ambler
Silver: The Rainbird Pattern - Victor Canning - 1971 Gold: The Steam Pig - James McClure
Silver: Shroud for a Nightingale - PD James - 1970 Gold: Young Man I Think You're Dying - Joan Fleming
Silver: The Labyrinth Makers - Anthony Price - 1969 Gold: A Pride of Heroes - Peter Dickinson
Silver: Another Way of Dying - Francis Clifford - The CWA Gold Dagger for Fiction
- 1968: Skin Deep (The Glass-sided Ants' Nest) - Peter Dickinson
- 1967: Murder Against the Grain - Emma Lathen
- 1966: A Long Way to Shiloh - Lionel Davidson
- 1965: The Far Side of the Dollar - Ross Macdonald
- 1964: The Perfect Murder - H.R.F.Keating
- 1963: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - John le Carre
- 1962: When I Grow Rich - Joan Fleming
- 1961: The Spoilt Kill - Mary Kelly
- 1960: The Night of Wenceslas - Lionel Davidson
- Crossed Red Herring Awards
- 1959: Passage of Arms - Eric Ambler
- 1958: Someone from the Past - Margot Bennett
- 1957: The Colour of Murder - Julian Symons
- 1956: The Second Man - Edward Grierson
- 1955: The Little Walls - Winston Graham