2012 Shamus Awards Nominees
（シェイマス賞候補作発表）
The Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) has announce the nominees for the 31st annual Shamus Awards, given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction. The awards will be presented at the PWA banquet, to be held Friday evening October 5, 2012 in Cleveland, Ohio, during the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention.
（授賞式は2012年10月５日におこなわれる）
BEST HARDCOVER PI NOVEL
Bye Bye, Baby, by Max Allan Collins / Tom Doherty
1222, by Anne Holt / Scribner
When the Thrill is Gone, by Walter Mosley / Riverhead Books
A Bad Night’s Sleep, by Michael Wiley / Minotaur
The Highly Effective Detective Crosses the Line, by Richard Yancey / Minotaur
BEST FIRST PI NOVEL
The Plot Against Hip Hop, by Nelson George / Akashic
Claire Dewitt and the City of the Dead, by Sara Gran / Houghton Mifflin
The Ocean Forest, by Troy D. Nooe / Ingalls
The Shortcut Man, by P.G. Sturges / Scribner
The Stranger You Seek, by Amanda Kyle Williams / Bantam
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL PI NOVEL
Quarry’s Ex, by Max Allan Collins / Hard Case Crime
Threat Warning, by John Gilstrap / Kensington
Serial, by John Lutz / Kensington
Long Pig, by James L. Ross / Perfect Crime Books
Fun & Games, by Duane Swierczynski / Mulholland
BEST PI SHORT STORY
“A Bullet From Yesterday,” by Terence Faherty(in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, January 2011))
“Mr. Monk & The Sunday Paper,” by Lee Goldberg (in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, July 2011)
“Who I Am,” by Michael Z. Lewin( in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, December 2011)
“Vampire Slayer Murdered in Key West” by Michael Haskins (in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, September/October 2011)
“Dancer in a Storm,” by L. A. Wilson (in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, January/February 2011)