Archival Post: 2000 SMFS Derringer Awards

2000 DERRINGER AWARDS
(For Stories Published in 1999. Winners bolded.)

BEST SHORT STORY

"The Way to a Man's Heart" by Elizabeth Dearl (February 10, 1999, The Case.Com Twist)
"The Bread of Affliction" by Michael Kahn (September/October 1999, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
"Let Sleeping Dogs Lie" by Chris Huntington (Blue Murder Magazine #9)
"Taking Care of Frank" by Anthony Mann (Crimewave #2)
"One More Kill" by Matt Hughes (December 1999, Blue Murder)

BEST SHORT SHORT (tie)

"When in Rome" by Dorothy Francis (December/January 2000, Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine)
"Just a Man on the Sidewalk" by Carol Kilgore (March 12-18, 1999, TheCase.Com)
"Absent-Minded" by L. C. Mohr (June/July 1999, Futures)
"Blind Justice" by Lynda Douglas (August 15, 1999, Novel Advice)
"The Armored Car" by Tim Myers (August 4, 1999, MysteryNet Twist)

BEST NOVELLA

"Saint Bobby" by Doug Allyn (April 1999, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
"Annie's Dream" by Bentley Dadmun (December 1999, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)
"Death in the Dales" by C. M. Chan (January 1999, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)

HONORARY BEST FIRST SHORT STORY

"Death in Full Bloom" by Ray Wonderly (August 1999, Futures)

GOLDEN DERRINGER AWARD
For Lifetime Achievement of Short Mystery Fiction

Henry Slesar
For his extensive and outstanding body of short mystery fiction.

DERRINGER AWARD FOR READER SUPPORT

Robert Foster
The long-time editor of The Short Order, the online newsletter serving the Short Mystery Fiction Society.

Jiro Kimura
The Short Mystery Fiction Society Historian, and Producer/Author of The Gumshoe Site.