2023 Shamus Award Winner: JR Sanders

 

SMFS congratulates SMFS list member JR Sanders for his Shamus Award win in the “Best Original PI Paperback” category. JR Sander’s winning book, Dead-Bang Fall, was published by Level Best Books. More about the Shamus Awards and the Private Eye Writers of America can be found on their website.

2022 Shamus Award Winner: Richard Helms

SMFS congratulates SMFS list member Richard Helms for his Shamus Award win in the “Best Private Eye Short Story Category.” Mr. Helm’s winning story, “Sweeps Week” appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine: July/August 2021 issue. More about the Shamus Awards and the Private Eye Writers of America can be found on their website.

2020 Shamus Award Winner: O’Neil De Noux

SMFS congratulates SMFS list member O’Neil De Noux for his Shamus Award win in the “Best Private Eye Short Story Category.” Mr. O’Neil De Noux’s winning story, “Sac-A-Lait Man,” appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine: September/October 2019 issue. More about the Shamus Awards and the Private Eye Writers of America can be found on their website.

(Hat tip and a big personal thank you to Gary Phillips who provided a cover scan from the Pwa Newsletter: Reflections of a Private Eye).

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.

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