Edgar Award–winning works

1994 film by Quentin Tarantino

1991 film directed by Jonathan Demme

2006 film directed by Martin Scorsese

Psycho is a 1960 American horror film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Martin Balsam. The plot centers on an encounter between on-the-run embezzler Marion Crane (Leigh), shy motel proprietor Norman Bates (Perkins) and his disturbed mother. A private investigator (Balsam), Marion's lover Sam Loomis (Gavin) and her sister Lila (Miles) investigate her disappearance.

1957 American film by Sidney Lumet

American crime drama television series (1999–2007)

2000 film by Christopher Nolan

1995 film directed by Bryan Singer

2002 film by Rob Marshall

1974 film directed by Roman Polański

1954 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock

1959 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1971 film by William Friedkin

1997 film directed by Curtis Hanson

1967 film by Norman Jewison

1998 film by Guy Ritchie

1963 film directed by Stanley Donen

2000 film directed by Steven Soderbergh

Columbo is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. After two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971, the show originally aired on NBC from 1971 to 1978 as one of the rotating programs of The NBC Mystery Movie. Columbo then aired on ABC as a rotating program on The ABC Mystery Movie from 1989 to 1990, and on a less frequent basis from 1990 to 2003. During its original run, the series won 22 awards from 68 nominations, including Falk winning four Primetime Emmy Awards (1972, 1975, 1976, 1990) and a

1985 film directed by Peter Weir

1950 film by John Huston

American police procedural and legal drama television series

1975 film directed by Sydney Pollack

1969 French-Algerian film by Costa-Gavras

British television detective series (1989–2013)

American police procedural crime drama television series

2007 film directed by Tony Gilroy

Bullitt is a 1968 American crime thriller film directed by Peter Yates, from a screenplay by Alan R. Trustman and Harry Kleiner, based on the 1963 novel Mute Witness by Robert L. Fish. It stars Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simon Oakland, and Norman Fell. In the film, San Francisco police detective Frank Bullitt (McQueen) investigates the murder of a witness he was assigned to protect.

Syriana is a 2005 American political thriller film written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, loosely based on Robert Baer's 2003 memoir See No Evil. The film stars an ensemble cast consisting of George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt, Tim Blake Nelson, Amanda Peet, Christopher Plummer, Alexander Siddig, and Mazhar Munir.

1993 film directed by Joel Schumacher

American television series (1984-1996)

1953 film by Fritz Lang

1976 film by Alfred Hitchcock

2004 film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

1970 film by Elio Petri

1960 film by René Clément

1955 film by Henri-Georges Clouzot

1992 film directed by Robert Altman

literary award for work in the crime genre

1946 film by Robert Siodmak

television series (1966-1973)

American crime drama television series (1980-1988)

American television police drama (1993–2005)

1965 film directed by Martin Ritt

1958 film by Stanley Kramer

American television series

1998 film by Steven Soderbergh

1963 novel by John le Carré

1972 film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

1947 film directed by Edward Dmytryk

American police procedural television drama series (2001-2011)

1966 non-fiction novel by Truman Capote

2008 novel by John Green

Kojak is an American action crime drama television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theophilus "Theo" Kojak. Taking the time slot of the popular Cannon series, it aired on CBS from 1973 to 1978. The series was reprised as 7 TV movies in the 1980s and as a TV series in 2005 starring Ving Rhames. It was also the basis for a series of novels, an audio drama, and a line of toys.

1996 film by Billy Bob Thornton

1984 film by Norman Jewison

Heathers is a 1989 American teen satirical black comedy crime film written by Daniel Waters and directed by Michael Lehmann, in both of their respective film debuts. The film stars Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker and Penelope Milford. The plot revolves around four teenage girls—three of whom are named Heather—in a clique at an Ohio high school, one of whose lives is disrupted by the arrival of Jason "J.D." Dean, a misanthrope intent on murdering the popular students and staging their deaths as suicides.

1951 film by William Wyler

American television anthology series

1990 film by Stephen Frears