The 2007 Edgar Award Winners

Here are the lucky, talented writers who won an Edgar Award at the MWA festivities in NYC this evening, April 26, 2006.

BEST NOVEL The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson (Random House
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Snakeskin Shamisen by Naomi Hirahara (Bantam Dell Publishing – Delta Books)
BEST FACT CRIME Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear by E.J. Wagner (John Wiley & Sons)
BEST SHORT STORY "The Home Front" – Death Do Us Part by Charles Ardai (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company)
BEST JUVENILE Room One: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
BEST YOUNG ADULT Buried by Robin Merrow MacCready (Penguin YR – Dutton Children's Books)
BEST PLAY Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure by Steven Dietz (Arizona Theatre Company)
BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY Life on Mars – Episode 1, Teleplay by Matthew Graham (BBC America
BEST TELEVISION FEATURE/MINI-SERIES TELEPLAY The Wire, Season 4, Teleplays by Ed Burns, Kia Corthron, Dennis Lehane, David Mills, Eric Overmyer, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, David Simon & William F. Zorzi (Home Box Office
BEST MOTION PICTURE SCREENPLAY The Departed, Screenplay by William Monahan (Warner Bros. Pictures)