1997 Edgar Allan Poe Award Nominees

The complete list of nominees for all categories (adult fiction, television, film, etc) is available from the Mystery Writers of America site at Bookwire.

Best Juvenile Mystery

• Helen Cavanagh. The Last Piper (Simon & Schuster)
• E.W. Hildick. The Case of the Wiggling Wig (Simon & Schuster)
• Dorothy Renolds Miller. The Clearing (Atheneum)
• John Neufield. Gaps in Stone Walls (Atheneum)
• Barbara Brooks Wallace. Cousins in Stone Castles (Atheneum)

Best Young Adult Mystery

• Mel Glenn. Who Killed Mr. Chippendale (Lodestar)
• Peter Hautmann. Mr. Was (Simon & Schuster)
• Daniel Hayes. Flyers (Simon & Schuster)
• Rob MacGregor. Hawk Moon (Simon & Schuster)
• Willo Davis Roberts. Twisted Summer (Atheneum)