Inaugural Derringer Award For Best Anthology Finalists

 

The Short Mystery Fiction Society has announced the Finalists for the Inaugural Derringer Award for Best Anthology.

Devil's Snare: Best New England Crime Stories 2024, edited by Susan Oleksiw, Ang Pompano, and Leslie Wheeler — with Leslie Wheeler and 3 others. 

Friend of the Devil: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of the Grateful Dead, edited by Josh Pachter 

Larceny & Last Chances: 22 Stories of Mystery & Suspense, edited by Judy Penz Sheluk 

Murder, Neat: A Sleuth Sayers Anthology, edited by Michael Bracken and Barb Goffman 

New York State of Crime: Murder New York Style 6, edited by D.M. Barr and Joseph R.G. De Marco 

The 13th Letter, edited by Donna Carrick

Short Mystery Fiction Society Derringer Awards

 

The Short Mystery Fiction Society announced the winners of the 2024 Derringer Awards for works published in 2023. 

FLASH
 The Referee by C. W. Blackwell (Shotgun Honey, October 12, 2023)
 
SHORT STORY
Last Day at the Jackrabbit by John Floyd (The Strand, May 2023)
 
LONG STORY
Good Deed for the Day by Bonnar Spring (Wolfsbane: Best New England Crime Stories, Crime Spell Books)
 
NOVELETTE (TIE)
Mrs Hyde by David Dean (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, March/April 2023)
 
Catherine the Great by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (WMG 2023 Holiday Spectacular Calendar of Stories)
  
Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer 
 
Barb Goffman
 
Hall of Fame
 
Rex Stout

Congratulations to all the nominated authors and winners.