Ed Gorman, Bill Pronzini, Evan Hunter, Mickey Spillane, John D. MacDonald, Talmage Powell, Donald E. Westlake, Lawrence Block, Marcia Muller, Edward Bryant, C.B. Gilford, Stephen Marlowe, Vin Packer, Marthayn Pelegrimas, David Goodis, Dorothy B. Hughes, John Lutz, Robert J. Randisi, L.J. Washburn, Norbert Davis, James Reasoner, Jay M. Flynn, Jack Ritchie, Richard S. Prather, Wade Miller, Day Keene, Fredric Brown, Donald Wandrei, William Campbell Gault, Craig Rice, John Jakes, Gil Brewer, Herbert D. Kastle, Leigh Brackett, Helen Nielsen, Clark Howard and Richard Matheson
1997