О премии

Премия Шамуса (Shamus Award) - американская литературная награда для писателей за лучшие частные детективные романы и рассказы года.

В 1981 году Роберт Дж. Рандизи (Robert J. Randisi) организовал «Private Eye Writers of America» (PWA) - организацию писателей-детективщиков Америки, посвятивших свое творчество частному сыску.
Для признания авторов, работающих в жанре частного детектива, эта организация, начиная с 1982 года, ежегодно вручает широко известную премию Шамуса. Номинантов и победителей выбирают члены комитета PWA.
Основным отличием этой премии является то, что в конкурсе могут участвовать только те произведения, главные герои которых непременно являются частными сыщиками (с лицензией или без нее) и не могут быть государственными агентами, полицейскими или сыщиками-любителями.

Номинации премии:
Лучший роман / Shamus Award for Best Hardcover P.I. Novel (с 1982 года)
Лучший дебютный роман / Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel (с 1985 года)
Лучший роман в обложке / Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original P.I. Novel (с 1982 года)
Лучший инди-роман / Best Indie P.I. Novel (с 2013 года)
Лучший рассказ / Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story (с 1983 года)
Лучшая серия/персонаж / Best P. I. Series/Characters – The Hammer–The Hammer (с 2007 года)
Глаз/За личные достижения / THE EYE/Lifetime Achievment Award (с 1982 года)
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Вручение премии проходит на ежегодной Всемирной конференции писателей детективного жанра (Bouchercon World Mystery Convention).

Жанры: Детективы, Зарубежные детективы, Зарубежная литература Страны: США Язык: Английский Первое вручение: 1982 г. Последнее вручение: 2023 г. Официальный сайт: http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv72.html

Номинации

Лучший роман
Shamus Award for Best Hardcover P.I. Novel

Вручается с 1982 года.

Лучший роман в мягкой обложке
Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original P.I. Novel

Вручается с 1982 года.

Лучший дебютный роман
Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel

Вручается с 1985 года.

Лучший инди-роман
Best Indie P.I. Novel

Вручался в 2013 - 2015 годах.

Лучший рассказ
Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story

Вручается с 1983 года.

Глаз/За личные достижения
THE EYE/Lifetime Achievment Award

Вручается нерегулярно с 1982 года.

Премия Хаммера
The Hammer Award

Вручался с 2006 по 2012 год автору за незабываемый персонаж серии детективов.

Лучший роман
Джонатан Эймс 0.0
The eponymous and hapless detective Happy Doll returns with a new philosophy and a new case in this second installment of a series “that's a tightly coiled double helix of offbeat humor and unflinching violence” (NYTBR)

Although badly scarred and down to his last kidney after the previous caper, Happy Doll is back in business. When a beguiling young woman turns up at his door, it’s Doll’s past that comes knocking. Mary DeAngelo is searching for her estranged mother, Ines Candle—a singular and troubled woman Doll once loved. The last he’d seen her she’d been near-death: arms slit like envelopes. Although she survived the episode, she vanished shortly thereafter. Now, years later, Mary claims Ines is alive and has recently made contact—messaging her on Facebook and calling her from a burner phone—only to disappear once again. Although his psychoanalyst would discourage it, Doll takes the case, desperate to see Ines again. But as the investigation deepens, there are questions he can’t shake. What’s led the flighty Ines to reappear? Is Mary only relaying half the truth? And who is Mary’s strange and mysterious husband?


In this wholly original follow-up to A MAN NAMED DOLL, Happy travels through L.A., Washington, Oregon and back again—a journey that gets wilder and woolier with each turn. An irreverent and inventive mystery, THE WHEEL OF DOLL is not to be missed.
Лучший роман в мягкой обложке
J.R. Sanders 0.0
March 1939, and try as he might, private eye Nate Ross can't seem to stay clear of Hollywood. His latest case, a penny-ante theft caper, turns deadly serious when one of the miscreants is murdered and Nate's the prime witness. No sooner does L.A.P.D.'s number one suspect - a former friend and disgraced ex-colleague - turn up asking for Nate's help than he goes on the run again, from both the police and Nate.


Nate's forced to come to terms with more than one ghost from his past as his struggle to prove his on-the-lam client's innocence brings him up against hostile cops, a pair of rolling assassins, film pirates, mobsters, and a girl who may need his help or may be playing him for a chump.
Лучший дебютный роман
Philip Miller 0.0
A bitter journalist and troubled art expert risk their lives to find the connection between a legendary painting and a series of rash murders in this “riveting, brutal journey into the high-stakes world of legacy art and inherited wealth” (Denise Mina, author of Conviction).

Thomas Tallis, inspector of provenance, has just arrived in Edinburgh, Scotland, to authenticate The Goldenacre, a masterpiece by iconic Scottish architect and painter Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Still dealing with a miserable divorce and the fallout from a disastrous job in London, Tallis is eager to sign off on the painting and leave. It should be simple, as the painting has been owned by one noble family since the ’20s. But then a horrifying parcel arrives on Tallis’s desk, and the threatening message is clear: someone doesn’t want him inspecting the painting. Now that Tallis sees lives are in danger, he has no choice but to stay until the investigation is complete.

Meanwhile, gruesome murders are plaguing Edinburgh. First, a Scottish painter of great renown. Next, an Edinburgh City Counsellor. Battle-hardened newspaper reporter Shona Sandison is on the case, even as her beloved industry shrinks around her. Shona doesn’t care who she steps on to get the best story, and she soon uncovers a link between The Goldenacre and the murders. As Tallis’s personal crises reach a fever pitch, Shona struggles to enlist his help in understanding how the painting is mixed up in all this violence before either one of them becomes the next victim.

Pensive, lush, and tragic, The Goldenacre is a heartbroken love letter to Edinburgh, and an unpredictable, gorgeously plotted mystery to savor.

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