Here are the winners of the 2004 Edgar Awards, as announced last night in New York. I didn't read a single one...That either says something about me or the Edgar committee. At any rate, congrats to all!

BEST NOVEL
Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin (Little, Brown)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Death of a Nationalist by Rebecca Pawel (Soho Press)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Find Me Again by Sylvia Maultash Warsh (Dundurn Group)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson (Bloomsbury)

BEST FACT CRIME
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Random House – Crown Books)

BEST SHORT STORY
"The Maids" from Blood on Their Hands by G. Miki Hayden (Berkeley Prime Crime) [Note: edited by Larry Block!]

BEST YOUNG ADULT
Acceleration by Graham McNamee (Wendy Lamb Books/Random House Childrens)

BEST JUVENILE
Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the Belfry by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
The Practice – "Goodbye," Teleplay by Peter Blake & David E. Kelley

BEST MOTION PICTURE SCREENPLAY
Dirty Pretty Things by Steve Knight (BBC, Celador Productions, Jonescompany)