Archival Post: 2001 SMFS Derringer Awards

2001 DERRINGER AWARD
(For Stories Published in 2000. Winners bolded.)

BEST SHORT MYSTERY STORY

"Erie's Last Day" by Steve Hockensmith (May 2000, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine)
"The Disappearance of Miss Sarah Oswald" by Jennifer Ashley (Spring 2000, Over My Dead body)
"Amish Butter" by Jacqueline Fiedler (Unholy Orders)
"The Dark Tower" by Gwen Moffat, (Malice Domestic)
"Tom Wasp and Anybody's Child" by Amy Myers (Scenes of Crime)

BEST MYSTERY NOVELLA

"Lilacs and Lace" by Lynda Douglas (June 2000, Futures)
"The Death Row Pet Show" by Doug Allyn (April 2000, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
"Attitude Thing" by William J. Carroll, Jr., (May 2000, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine)
"Blood Paths" by Clark Howard (June 2000, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
"The Sedgemoor Strangler" by Peter Lovesey (2000, Criminal Records)

BEST FLASH MYSTERY (tie)

"Polls Don't Lie" by Earl McGill (Blue Murder)
"The New Lawyer" by Mike Wiecek (Spring 2000, Crimestalker Casebook)
"Accident" by Guy Belleranti (About.com Mysteries)
"Sunken Dreams" by Tim Myers, (December 2000, Futures)
"Lucky Man" by Ali Seay (About.com Mysteries)

BEST PUZZLE STORY

"The Cabin Killer" by Henry Slesar (July 2000, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
"Happy Acres Homicide" by Richard Ciciarelli (Solve-It #227, MysteryNet.com)
"Killing the Old Survivors" by Gary Sensening (Solve-It #215, MysteryNet.com)

THE GOLDEN DERRINGER FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

John Lutz

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