AWARDS:

Mystery Writers of America:
Edgar Award, The Grandmaster
Edgar Award, Pigs Get Fat
Special Award, Trace

Private Eye Writers of America:
Shamus Award: The Ceiling of Hell
Shamus Award: "Another Day, Another Dollar"(short story in anthology, Murder on the Run)

Special Awards:
Trace
Pigs Get Fat
Forty-seven Miles of Rope
Smoked Out
Too Old a Cat

 

Romance Writers of America:
Special Award: The Grandmaster

 

West Coast Review of Books:
Porgy Award: The Red Moon