More Edgar Award nominees

John Hart's latest book, "The Last Child," was one of many nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for the 2010 Edgar Allan Poe Awards.

Here's a list of other mystery novels, plays and nonfiction.

Best First Novel by an American Author

"The Girl She Used to Be," by David Cristofano; "Starvation Lake," by Bryan Gruley; "The Weight of Silence," by Heather Gudenkauf; "A Bad Day for Sorry," by Sophie Littlefield; "Black Water Rising," by Attica Locke; "In the Shadow of Gotham," by Stefanie Pintoff.

Best Paperback Original

"Bury Me Deep," by Megan Abbott; "Havana Lunar," by Robert Arellano; "The Lord God Bird," by Russell Hill; "Body Blows," by Marc Strange; "The Herring-Seller's Apprentice." by L.C. Tyler.

Best Fact Crime

"Columbine," by Dave Cullen; "Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde," by Jeff Guinn; "The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Boston's Racial Divide," by Dick Lehr; "Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art," by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo; "Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa," by R.A. Scotti.Best Critical/Biographical"Talking About Detective Fiction," by P.D. James; "The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives," edited by Otto Penzler; "Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King," by Lisa Rogak; "The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith," by Joan Schenkar; "The Stephen King Illustrated Companion," by Bev Vincent.Best Short Story

"Last Fair Deal Gone Down" – "Crossroad Blues," by Ace Atkins; "Femme Sole" – "Boston Noir" by Dana Cameron; "Digby, Attorney at Law" – Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by Jim Fusilli; "Animal Rescue" – "Boston Noir," by Dennis Lehane; "Amapola" – "Phoenix Noir," by Luis Alberto Urrea.

Best Juvenile

"The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity," by Mac Barnett; "The Red Blazer Girls: The Ring of Rocamadour," by Michael D. Beil; "Closed for the Season," by Mary Downing Hahn; "Creepy Crawly Crime," by Aaron Reynolds; "The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline," by Nancy Springer.

Best Young Adult

"Reality Check," by Peter Abrahams; "If the Witness Lied," by Caroline B. Cooney; "The Morgue and Me," by John C. Ford; "Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone," by Dene Low; "Shadowed Summer," by Saundra Mitchell.

Best Television Episode Teleplay

"Place of Execution," by Patrick Harbinson; "Strike Three" – The Closer, by Steven Kane; "Look What He Dug Up This Time" – "Damages," by Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler and Daniel Zelman; "Grilled" – "Breaking Bad," by George Mastras; "Living the Dream" – "Dexter," by Clyde Phillips.

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award

"A Dreadful Day," Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by Dan Warthman.

Grand Master

Dorothy Gilman

Raven Awards

Mystery Lovers Bookshop, Oakmont, Pennsylvania; Zev Buffman, International Mystery Writers' Festival

Ellery Queen Award

Poisoned Pen Press (Barbara Peters & Robert Rosenwald)

The Simon & Schuster — Mary Higgins Clark Award

Presented at MWA's Agents & Editors Party on April 28.

"Awakening," by S.J. Bolton; "Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof," by Blaize Clement; "Never Tell a Lie," by Hallie Ephron; "Lethal Vintage," by Nadia Gordon; "Dial H for Hitchcock," by Susan Kandel.The Edgar Awards will be presented at the 64th Gala Banquet, April 29 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.