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Description: The Arthur Ellis award recognizes books in the crime genre published first in Canada or by Canadian writers living outside of Canada. It was first awarded in 1984 and is granted by the Crime Writers of Canada. The award name is taken from the pseudonym of Canada's last official hangman.
Special awards have included the Chairman Award, Best Play, and Best Genre Criticism/Reference Award.
Winners
2002 |
Best Crime Novel | In The Midnight Hour | Michelle Spring |
| Best First Crime Novel | The Boy Must Die | Jon Redfern | |
| Best True Crime | The Last Amigo | Stevie Cameron | |
| Best Juvenile | Scared To Death | Norah McClintock | |
| Best Short Story | o | Stevie Cameron | |
2001 |
Best Crime Novel | Cold Is The Grave | Peter Robinson |
| Best First Crime Novel | Hands Like Clouds | Mark Zuehlke | |
| Best True Crime | The Spinster and the Prophet | A.B. McKillop | |
| Best Juvenile | The Boy in the Burning House | Tim Wynne Jones | |
| Best Short Story | Murder in Utopia | Peter Robinson | |
2000 |
Best Crime Novel | The Feast of Stephen | Rosemary Aubert |
| Best First Crime Novel | Lost Girls | Andrew Pyper | |
| Best True Crime | Cowboys and Indians | Gordon Sinclair, Jr. | |
| Best Juvenile | How Can A Brilliant Detective.. | ||
| Best Short Story | One More Kill | Matt Hughes | |
1999 |
Best Crime Novel | Old Wounds | Nora Kelly |
| Best First Crime Novel | Sudden Blow | Liz Brady | |
| Best True Crime | No Claim To Mercy | Derek Finkle | |
| Best Juvenile | Sins of the Father | Norah McClintock | |
| Best Short Story | Last Inning | Scott Mackay | |
1998 |
Best Crime Novel | Trial of Passion | William Deverell |
| Best First Crime Novel | Deja Dead | Kathy Reichs | |
| Best True Crime | When She Was Bad | Patricia Pierson | |
| Best Juvenile | The Body in the Basement | Norah McClintock | |
| Best Short Story | Widow's Weeds | Sue Pike | |
1997 |
Best Crime Novel | Innocent Graves | Peter Robinson |
| Best First Crime Novel | Death at Buckingham Palace | C.C. Benison | |
| Best True Crime | The Cassock and the Crown | Jean Monet | |
| Best Juvenile | How Can A Frozen Detective | Linda Bailey | |
| Best Short Story | Dead Run | Richard K. Bercuson | |
1996 |
Best Crime Novel | Mother Love | L.R. Wright |
| Best First Crime Novel | The Last Castrato | John Spencer Hill | |
| Best True Crime | The Secret Lives… | Lois Simme | |
| Best Juvenile | Mistaken Identity | Norah McClintock | |
| Best Short Story | Cotton Armour | Mary Jane Maffini | |
1995 |
Best Crime Novel | A Colder Kind of Death | Gail Bowen |
| Best First Crime Novel | What's A Girl Gotta Do? | Sparkle Hayter | |
| Best True Crime | The Prodigal Husband | Michael Harris | |
| Best Juvenile | Torn Away | James Heneghan | |
| Best Short Story | The Midnight Boat | Rosemary Aubert | |
1994 |
Best Crime Novel | Gypsy Sins | John Lawrence Reynolds |
| Best First Crime Novel | Memory Trace | Gavin Scott | |
| Best True Crime | With Malice Aforethought | David R. Williams | |
| Best Juvenile | Abalone Summer | John Dowd | |
| Best Short Story | Just Like Old Times | Robert Sawyer | |
| Best Play | The Stillborn Lover | Timothy Findley | |
1993 |
Best Crime Novel | Lizardskin | Carsten Stroud |
| Best First Crime Novel | Passion Play | Sean Stewart | |
| Best True Crime | Redrum the Innocent | Kirk Makin | |
| Best Short Story | Mantrap | Nancy Kilpatrick | |
1992 |
Best Crime Novel | Past Reason Hated | Peter Robinson |
| Best First Crime Novel | Flesh Wound | Paul Grescoe | |
| Best True Crime | Arms and the Man | William Lowther | |
| Best Short Story | Two In The Bush | Eric Wright | |
| Best Criticism | Spy Fiction, Spy Films | Wesley Wark | |
1991 |
Best Crime Novel | A Chill Rain in January | L.R. Wright |
| Best First Crime Novel | Sinper's Moon | Carsten Stroud | |
| Best True Crime | Ginger | Susan Mayse | |
| Best Juvenile | Innocence | Peter Robinson | |
| Best Short Story | Holmes Among the Pirates | Donald Redmond | |
1990 |
Best Crime Novel | Hot Shots | Laurence Gough |
| Best First Crime Novel | The Man Who Murdered God | John Lawrence Reynolds | |
| Best True Crime | Conspiracy of Silence | Lisa Priest | |
| Best Short Story | Humbug | Josef Skvorecky | |
1989 |
Best Crime Novel | Jack | Chris Scott |
| Best First Crime Novel | A Stone of the Heart | John Brady | |
| Best True Crime | Conspiracy of Brothers | Mick Lowe | |
| Best Short Story | Killer in the House | Jas. R. Petrin | |
1988 |
Best Crime Novel | Swann: A Mystery | Carol Shields |
| Best First Crime Novel | The Goldfish Bowl | Laurence Gough | |
| Best True Crime | Stung | ||
| Best Short Story | Looking for an Honest Man | Eric Wright | |
1987 |
Best Crime Novel | Buried on a Sunday | Edward O. Phillips |
| Best First Crime Novel | Murder on the Run | Medora Sale | |
| Best True Crime | Hunting Humans | Elliot Leyton | |
1986 |
Best Crime Novel | Death in the Old Country | Eric Wright |
| Best True Crime | A Canadian Tragedy | Maggie Siggins | |
1985 |
Best Crime Novel | Murder Sees The Light | Howard Engel |
| Best True Crime | The Trials of Israel Lipsky | Martin Friedland | |
1984 |
Best Crime Novel | The Night Gods Smiled | Eric Wright |
