2020 Shamus Award SMFS Member Nominees

Late yesterday the Private Eye Writers of America announced their Shamus Award nominees for the 2020 Shamus Awards. There are three categories for awards given for private eye novels and short stories first published in the United States in 2019. SMFS list members are nominated in two of the three categories.  

Best Private Eye Short Story

“Sac-A-Lait Man” by O’Neil De Noux in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine: September/October 2019.

“The Dunes of Saulkrasti” by William Burton McCormick in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine: September/October 20109. Mr. McCormick reports that this is his first nomination.

“The Fourteenth Floor” by Adam Meyer in the Crime Travel anthology edited by SMFS list member Barb Goffman.

Best Original Private Eye Paperback

Paid in Spades: A Pat Gallegher Novel  by Richard Helms / Clay Stafford Books, March 2019. Mr. Helms reports that this is his third nomination for works in this series (Juicy Watuse was a finalist in 2003 and Wet Debt also was a finalist in 2004) and his sixth nomination overall.

Additionally, a author is not a member of the SMFS is up for the Shamus Award because of the The Eyes of Texas: Private Eyes from the Panhandle to the Piney Woods compuled and edited by SMFS list member Michael Bracken.

SMFS congratulates our member nominees as well as all the nominated authors. The full list of nominees can be found here.