The Private Eye Writers of America tarafından dağıtılan, yalnızca özel hafiye romanlarını kapsayan ödül. Yazarlara The Eye, Yaşam Boyu Başarı Ödülü verilirken, 2007 yılından itibaren ismini Mike Hammer'ın ünlü hafiyesinden alan The Hammer ödülü kurgu detektif kahramanlara verilmeye başlandı.
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EN İYİ ÖZEL DETEKTİF ROMANI |
EN İYİ ÖZEL DETEKTİF İLK ROMAN |
EN İYİ YAZAR (THE EYE) |
EN İYİ ÖZEL DETEKTİF (THE HAMMER) |
| 2023 | The Wheel of Doll - Jonathan Ames | The Goldenacre - Philip Miller | ||
| 2022 | Family Business - S. J. Rozan | Lost Little Girl - Gregory Stout | ||
| 2021 | Blind Vigil - Matt Coyle | The Missing American - Kwei Quartey | Michael Z. Lewin | |
| 2020 | Lost Tomorrows - Matt Coyle | Behind The Wall of Sleep - James D. F. Hannah | ||
| 2019 | What You Want To See - Kristen Lepionka | The Best Bad Things - Katrina Carrasco | ||
| 2018 | The Room of White Fire - T. Jefferson Parker | The Last Place You Look - Kristen Lepionka | ||
| 2017 | Where It Hurts - Reed Farrel Coleman | IQ - Joe Ide | Jerry Kennealy | |
| 2016 | Brutality - Ingrid Thoft | The Do-Right - Lisa Sandlin | S.J. Rozan | |
| 2015 | Hounded - David Rosenfelt | Invisible City - Julia Dahl | Parnell Hall | |
| 2014 | The Good Cop - Brad Parks | Bear Is Broken - Lachlan Smith | Kinsey Millhone - Sue Grafton | |
| 2013 | Taken - Robert Crais | Black Fridays - Michael Sears | Loren D. Estleman | |
| 2012 | A Bad Night’s Sleep - Michael Wiley | Shortcut Man by P.G. Sturges | Nate Heller - Max Allan Collins |
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| 2011 | No Mercy - Lori Armstrong |
In Search of Mercy - Michael Ayoob | Ed Gorman | V.I. Warshawski - Sarah Paretsky |
| 2010 | Locked in - Marcia Muller | Faces of Gone - Brad Parks | Robert J. Randisi |
Sharon McCone - Marcia Muller |
| 2009 | Empty Ever After - Reed Farrel Coleman | Snow Blind - Lori Armstrong | Robert Crais | Matt Scudder - Lawrence Block |
| 2008 | Soul Patch - Reed Farrel Coleman |
Big City, Bad Blood - Sean Chercover |
Joe Gores |
Nameless - Bill Pronzini |
| 2007 | The Dramatist - Ken Bruen |
The Wrong Kind of Blood - Declan Hughes | Stuart M. Kaminsky |
Shell Scott - Richard S. Prather |
| 2006 | Güneşin Karanlığında - Michael Connelly |
Forcing Amaryllis - Louise Ure |
Max Allan Collins |
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| 2005 | While I Disappear - Ed Wright |
Fade to Blonde - Max Phillips |
Sara Paretsky |
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| 2004 | Ahlaksızlar - Ken Bruen |
Black Maps - Peter Spiegelman |
Donald Westlake |
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| 2003 | Blackwater Sound - James W. Hall |
The Distance - Eddie Muller |
Sue Grafton |
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| 2002 | Reflecting the Sky - S. J. Rozan |
Chasing the Devil's Tail - David Fulmer |
Lawrence Block |
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| 2001 | Havana Heat - Carolina Garcia-Aguilera |
Street Level - Bob Truluck |
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| 2000 | California Fire and Life - Don Winslow |
Ölüm Sanatçısı - John Connolly |
Edward D. Hoch |
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| 1999 | Booby Trap - Bill Pronzini |
Kanlı Kumpas - Steve Hamilton | Maxine O'Callaghan |
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| 1998 | Come Back Dead - Terrance Faherty |
Big Red Tequilla - Rick Riordan |
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| 1997 | Sunset Exhomess - Robert Crais |
This Dog for Hire - Carol Lea Benjamin |
Stephen Marlowe |
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| 1996 | Concourse - S. J. Rozan |
The Innocents - Richard Barre |
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| 1995 | Katil'in 'K'si - Sue Grafton |
A Drink Before the War - Dennis Lehane |
John Lutz ve Robert B. Parker |
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| 1994 | Şeytan Biliyor ki Ölüsün - Lawrence Block |
Satan's Lambs - Lynn Hightower |
Stephen J. Cannell |
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| 1993 | The Man Who was Taller than God - Harold Adams |
The Woman Who Married a Bear - John Straley |
Marcia Muller |
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| 1992 | Stolen Away - Max Allan Collins |
Suffer Little Children - Thomas D. Davis |
Joseph Hansen |
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| 1991 | Gerilimin 'G'si - Sue Grafton |
Mavi Elbiseli Şeytan - Walter Mosley |
Roy Huggins |
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| 1990 | Extenuating Circumstances - Jonathan Valin | Katwalk - Karen Kijewski |
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| 1989 | Kiss - John Lutz |
Fear of the Dark - Gar Anthony Haywood |
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| 1988 | A Tax in Blood - Benjamin Schutz | Death on the Rocks - Michael Allegretto | Dennis Lynds ve Wade Miller | |
| 1987 | Kurbanlık Koyun - Jeremiah Healy |
Jersey Tomatoes - J. W. Rider |
Bill Pronzini |
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| 1986 | Baskın'ın 'B'si - Sue Grafton |
Hardcover - Wayne Warga |
Richard S. Prather |
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| 1985 | Sugartown - Loren Estleman |
A Creative Kind of Killer - Jack Early |
Howard Browne |
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| 1984 | True Detective - Max Allan Collins |
William Campbell Gault |
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| 1983 | Ölmenin Sekiz Milyon Yolu - Lawrence Block | Mickey Spillane |
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| 1982 | Hoodwink - Bill Pronzini |
Ross Macdonald |