Voting has been completed for the 1998 Derringers.
(For Stories Published in 1998)
Final day for voting was April 10, 1999.
Every member of the SMFS is eligible to vote on the nominations. The stories are provided online in many cases as a convenience.
Please respect the copyrights of the respective authors/organizations.
There were a total of 136 pre-nominations covering 67 individual stories for the 1999 Derringers. Out of these the final nominations were made on the following basis: 1. Final nominations were required to be in the traditional short story format.
2. Each writer was allowed one nominated story per category. In the case of multiple pre-nominations for the same author, the story with the largest number of votes was selected for final nomination.
3. All stories represented in the final nomination slate were those receiving the most pre-nomination votes within each category.
4. Because there was only one story nominated for the Novella category, that category has been eliminated.
While our short lists are rather long, going by the rules, we could not further eliminate nominees. *** The 1998 Derringer Award Nominees
(For Stories Published in 1998)
SHORT STORY CATEGORY
CAPITAL JUSTICE, by Kris Neri, published in Blue Murder #1
http://www.bluemurder.com/pages/chicago.html
THE MURDER OF ERNEST TRAPNELL, by Eric Arneson, published in Mary
Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine, Fall, 1998
http://www.leba.net/~arneson/trapnell.htm
A LOSS OF INCOME, by Seymour Shubin, published in Murderous Intent, Spring
l998.
http://www.murderousintent.com/mpc041.htm
DROP DEAD ZONE, by M.E. Troy, published in Mystery Buff Magazine, April 1998
http://WWW.Mysterybuff.com/gossip.html
JUST LIKE IN THE MOVIES, by Kate Thornton, published in Blue Murder
http://www.bluemurder.com/pages/chicago.html
TO THE FARM, by Dina Leacock, (writing as Dianne Arrelle), published in Blue
Murder, Issue 2
http://www.bluemurder.com/pages/chicago.html
GATOR BAYOU, by Joyce Holland, published in the premier issue of Fogfire
magazine, Spring, 1998
http://www.fogfire.com/may98/gatorbayou.htm
THE DEADLY DIAMONDS, by Robert Iles, published in Blue Murder #5, 1998
http://www.bluemurder.com/pages/chicago.html
TWO TICKETS TO PARADISE, by Barbara White-Rayczek, published in
DEATH KNELL III Anthology
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FLASH CATEGORY
MOTHER'S HELPER, by John Hermann, published in Murderous Intent, Spring,
1998.
http://www.murderousintent.com/mpc042.htm
PRETTY KITTY, by Joyce Holland, published in Murderous Intent, (Winter,
'98/Vol. 4. No. 4.)
http://www.murderousintent.com/mpc043.htm
DADDY'S PET by Fay Thompson, published in TheCase.com (Twist), Jan 14, 1998
http://www.TheCase.com/derringers/
ROUGH TIMES by Paul Harrison, published in TheCase.com (Flash 51), Mar. 6,
1998
http://www.TheCase.com/derringers/
THE USED CAR, by Sheryl Snell-Massie, published in TheCase.com (Flash 55),
May 1, 1998
http://www.TheCase.com/derringers/
POCKET PICKED, Jesse Knight, published in TheCase.com (Twist 69), March 18,
1998
http://www.TheCase.com/derringers/
KEY TO SUCCESS by Richard Ciciarelli, published in TheCase.com (Twist 98),
Nov 4, 1998
http://www.TheCase.com/derringers/
THE CHRISTMAS GUEST, by Dorothy Francis, published in TheCase.com (Twist
103), Dec. 16, 1998
http://www.TheCase.com/derringers/
THE OTHER WOMAN, by Kate Thornton, published in TheCase.com (Twist 96), Oct
21, 1998
http://www.TheCase.com/derringers/
CHECKMATE!, by Dale B. Hall, published in TheCase.com (Flash 65), Oct. 2,
1998
http://www.TheCase.com/derringers/
EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION, by Kimberly Brown, published in TheCase.com (Flash
49), Feb. 6, 1998
http://www.TheCase.com/derringers/
ANYTHING FOR THE CHIEF, by Linda K. Wright (writing as Geri Myerson),
published in TheCase.com (Twist 95), Oct. 14, 1998
http://www.TheCase.com/derringers/
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HONORARY DERRINGERS
This year, the Officers of the Short Mystery Fiction Society are also pleased to announce two Honorary Derringers. They are:
GOLDEN DERRINGER AWARD
for Lifetime Achievement in the field of the Short Story, to Edward D. Hoch
and
DERRINGER READER AWARD
for Significant Contribution in Support of the Short Story, to Kate Derie.
***
Congratulations to all.
We would also like to extend our thanks to "Tabulatin'" Tabatha Yeatts for coordinating the voting. Send her your votes for the final awards at yeattslo@mindspring.com
You have one month to read and vote. The final day of voting will be April 10.
G. Miki Hayden and Michael Mallory
*** Thanks to Tom and Kate for providing weblists of the nominated stories:
Tom Kreitzberg <tak@smarty.smart.net>
http://www.smart.net/~tak/derr99.html
Kate Derie <cluelass@cluelass.com>
http://www.cluelass.com/Awards.html#Derringer
And to G. Miki Hayden <MaraWayne@aol.com> and
Michael Mallory <m-mallory@email.msn.com> for managing the whole process.
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