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 | | Categories include Best Novel, Best First Novel by an American Author, Best Paperback Original, and many more. |
 | | There are many other crime fiction awards in the U.S. and other countries. |
 | | For an exhaustive list, including who gives them, when, and what for, and winners from inception through 2001, see The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction, compiled by Mike Ashley (2002, Carroll and Graf tpo, 12.95). |
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