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At the 64th gala banquet of the Mystery Writers of America last night, the winners of the 2010 Edgar Awards were announced, and as if in response to the Wall Street Journal article yesterday that said, about the lack of repeat winners of the prizes, "the first Edgar is often the last," the judges gave John Hart a rare second Edgar, after honoring him just two years ago for Best Novel for Down River:
- Novel: The Last Child by John Hart
- First American Novel: In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff
- Paperback Original: Body Blows by Marc Strange
- Critical/Biographical: The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives, edited by Otto Penzler
- Fact Crime: Columbine by Dave Cullen
- Short Story: "Amapola" by Luis Alberto Urrea, collected in Phoenix Noir
- Young Adult: Reality Check by Peter Abrahams
- Juvenile: Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn
- Mary Higgins Clark Award: Awakening by S.J. Bolton
- Grand Master: Dorothy Gilman
You can dig down into our long list of this year's nominees, and previous nominees and winners. --Tom
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