Here are the Edgar award winning novels for 1946-1955:
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
1946 - Watchful at Night by Julius Fast
(no other nominees announced)
1947 - The Horizontal Man by Helen Eustis
(no other nominess announced)
1948 - The Fabulous Clipjoint by Fredric Brown
(no other nominees announce)
1949 - The Room Upstairs by Mildred Davis
(other nominees: Wilders Walk Away by Herbert Brean and Shoot the Works by Richard
Ellington)
1950 - What a Body by Alan Green
(other nominees: The End Is Known by Geoffrey Holiday Hall, Walk the Dark Streets
by William Krasner, The Shadow and the Blot by N. D. Lobell and G. G. Lobell, The
Innocent by Evelyn Piper, and The Dark Light by Bart Spicer)
1951 - Nightmare in Manhattan by Thomas Walsh
(other nominees: Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith, Happy Holiday! by Thaddeus
O'Finn, and The House Without a Door by Thomas Sterling)
1952 - Strangle Hold by Mary McMullen
(other nominees: Carry My Coffin Slowly by Lee Herrington, The Christmas Card
Murder by David William Meredith, Cure It with Honey by Thurston Scott, and The
Eleventh Hour by Robert B. Sinclair)
1953 - Don't Cry for Me by William Campbell Gault
(also nominated: The Inward Eye by Peggy Bacon)
1954 - A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin
(no other nominees announce)
1955 - Go, Lovely Rose by Jean Potts
(no other nominees announced)
BEST NOVEL
1954 - Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay
(no other nominees announced)
1955 - The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
(no other nominess announced)
How did you do?
Even given that I have read the lists from time to time over the years, I didn't remember that any of them, other than THE LONG GOODBYE, had won (and now that you mention it, that Levin had won best first)...despite having also read DON'T CRY FOR ME and THE FABULOUS CLIPJOINT. I have to wonder if I'd agree that Highsmith wasn't robbed.
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