The Short Mystery Fiction Society annouces with great pleasure the
nominees and special award winners for the Year 1999 Derringers.
 
 The nominees are:
 
 BEST SHORT STORY:
 
 "The Bread of Affliction" by Michael Kahn
 Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Sept./Oct. 99
 
 "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie" by Chris Huntington
 Blue Murder Magazine #9
 
 "Taking Care of Frank" by Antony Mann
 Crimewave #2
 
 "The Way to a Man's Heart" by Elizabeth Dearl
 The Case.Com "Twist" February, 1999
 
 "One More Kill" by Matt Hughes
 Blue Murder, Dec. 99
 
 BEST NOVELLA
 
 "Annie's Dream" by Bentley Dadmun
 Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Dec. 1999
 
 "Death in the Dales" by C. M. Chan
 Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Jan. 1999
 
 "Saint Bobby" by Doug Allyn
 Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, April 1999
 
 BEST SHORT SHORTS
 
 "Absent-Minded" by L.C. Mohr
 FUTURES, June/July 1999
 
 "When in Rome" by Dorothy Francis
 Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine. December/January 2000 issue.
 
 "Blind Justice" by Lynda Douglas
  Novel Advice, August 15, 1999
 
 "Just a Man on the Sidealk" by Carol Kilgore
 TheCase.Com, March 12-18, 1999

"The Armored Car" by Tim Myers 
MysteryNet Twist, Aug 4, 1999
 
SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS

Best First Short Mystery Story
"Death in Full Bloom" by Ray Wonderly -- FUTURES, August '99.

 The Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement in Short Mystery Fiction goes
to

 Henry Slesar for his extensive and outstanding body of short mystery fiction
 
The Derringer Award for Reader Support is shared this year by two people who have each made outstanding contributions in aid of the short mystery fiction reader
 
Robert Foster, the long-time editor of The Short Order, the online newsletter serving the Short Mystery FIction Society
 
 and
 
Jiro Kimura, the Short Mystery Fiction Society Historian, and Producer/Author of The Gumshoe Site
 
 CONGRATULATIONS ALL
 
 and a big thanks to the committees who served.
 
 Michael Mallory, author of the "The Adventures of the Second Mrs. Watson," a
collection of short stories from Deadly Alibi Press, chair of the short story
committee

Tom Kreitzberg, author
 
 Kris Neri, author of Revenge of the Gypsy Queen from Rainbow Books
 
 Denise Baton, author
 
 G. Miki Hayden, author of Pacific Empire, intertwined short crime stories
from JoNa Books, chair of the short-short and novella committee
 
 Carol Cail, author of Who Was Sylvia? from Deadly Alibi Press
 
 Sally, Fellows, mystery reviewer
 
 Joyce Holland, author of Boat Dollies from Deadly Alibi Press