Gold Dagger
The CWA Gold Dagger is an award given annually by the Crime Writers' Association of the United Kingdom since 1960 for the best crime novel of the year.
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The Little Walls
Winston Graham · 1955 · 1 list
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The Second Man
Edward Grierson · 1956 · 1 list
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The Colour Of Murder
Julian Symons · 1957 · 2 lists
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Someone from the Past
Margot Bennett · 2002 · 1 list
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Passage of Arms
Eric Ambler · 1959 · 1 list
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The Night of Wenceslas
Lionel Davidson · 1960 · 1 list
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The Spoilt Kill
Mary Kelly · 2020 · 1 list
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When I Grow Rich
Joan Fleming · 1962 · 1 list
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John Le Carré · 1963 · 13 lists
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The Perfect Murder
H.R.F. Keating · 1960 · 1 list
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The Far Side of the Dollar
Ross Macdonald · 1964 · 1 list
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A Long Way to Shiloh
Lionel Davidson · 1966 · 1 list
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Murder Against the Grain
Emma Lathen · 1967 · 1 list
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Skin Deep
Peter Dickinson · 1968 · 1 list
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A Pride of Heroes
Peter Dickinson · 1969 · 1 list
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Young Man I Think You're Dying
Joan Fleming · 1970 · 1 list
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The Steam Pig
James H. McClure · 1 list
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The Levanter
Eric Ambler · 1972 · 1 list
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The Defection of A.J. Lewinter
Robert Littell · 1973 · 1 list
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Other Paths to Glory
Anthony Price · 1945 · 1 list
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The Seven Per Cent Solution
Nicholas Meyer · 1974 · 2 lists
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A Demon In My View
Ruth Rendell · 1976 · 2 lists
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The Honourable Schoolboy
John Le Carré · 1977 · 2 lists
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The Chelsea Murders
Lionel Davidson · 1978 · 1 list
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Whip Hand
Dick Francis · 1787 · 3 lists
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Gorky Park
Martin Cruz Smith · 1981 · 4 lists
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The False Inspector Dew
Peter Lovesey · 1982 · 2 lists
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Accidental Crimes
John Hutton · 1987 · 1 list
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The Twelfth Juror
B. M. Gill · 1984 · 1 list
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Monkey Puzzle
Paula Gosling · 1985 · 1 list
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Live Flesh
Ruth Rendell · 1986 · 1 list
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A Fatal Inversion
Barbara Vine · 1987 · 2 lists
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Ratking
Michael Dibdin · 1988 · 1 list
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The Wench Is Dead
Colin Dexter · 1989 · 1 list
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Bones and Silence
Reginald Hill · 1990 · 1 list
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King Solomon's Carpet
Ruth Rendell · 1991 · 1 list
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The Way Through the Woods
Colin Dexter · 1992 · 1 list
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Cruel and Unusual
Patricia Cornwell · 2001 · 1 list
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The Scold's Bridle
Minette Walters · 1994 · 1 list
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The Mermaids Singing
Val McDermid · 1995 · 1 list
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Black and Blue
Ian Rankin · 1997 · 1 list
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Sunset Limited
James Lee Burke · 1998 · 1 list
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A Small Death in Lisbon
Robert Wilson · 1 list
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Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem · 1999 · 2 lists
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Sidetracked
Henning Mankell · 1995 · 1 list
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The Athenian Murders
Jose Carlos Somoza · 2002 · 1 list
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Fox Evil
Minette Walters · 2002 · 1 list
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Blacklist
Sara Paretsky · 2003 · 1 list
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Silence of the Grave
Arnaldur Indriðason · 2001 · 1 list
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Raven Black
Ann Cleeves · 2006 · 1 list
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The Broken Shore
Peter Temple · 2005 · 1 list
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Blood from Stone
Frances Fyfield · 2009 · 1 list
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A Whispered Name
William Brodrick · 2008 · 1 list
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Blacklands
Belinda Bauer · 2010 · 1 list
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Tom Franklin · 2010 · 1 list
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The Rage
Gene Kerrigan · 2011 · 1 list
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Dead Lions
Mick Herron · 1789 · 1 list
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This Dark Road to Mercy
Wiley Cash · 2014 · 1 list
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Life or Death
Michael Robotham · 2014 · 1 list
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Dodgers
Bill Beverly · 2016 · 1 list
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The Dry
Jane Harper · 2016 · 1 list
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The Liar
Steve Cavanagh · 2023 · 1 list
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The Puppet Show
M.W. Craven · 1 list
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Good Girl, Bad Girl
Michael Robotham · 2019 · 2 lists
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We Begin at the End
Chris Whitaker · 2020 · 1 list
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Sunset Swing
Ray Celestin · 2021 · 1 list
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Tell Me What I Am
Una Mannion · 2023 · 1 list
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The Book of Secrets
Anna Mazzola · 1 list
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The Death of Us
Abigail Dean · 1 list
