List of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Play winners

Winners

1950-70s

• 1950 Sidney Kingsley, Detective Story
• 1953 Frederick Knott, Dial M for Murder
• 1955 Agatha Christie, Witness for the Prosecution
• 1962 Frederick Knott, Write Me a Murder
• 1971 Anthony Shaffer, Sleuth

  1980-90s

• 1980 Ira Levin, Deathtrap
• 1981 Paul Nathan, Ricochet
• 1982 Jerome Chodorov and Norman Panama, A Talent for Murder
• 1986 Rupert Holmes, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• 1990 Larry Gelbart, City of Angels
• 1991 Rupert Holmes, Accomplice
• 1998 David Barr III,The Red Death
• 1999 John Pielmeier, Voices in the Dark

  2000s

• 2000 Joe DiPietro, The Art of Murder
• 2003 Philip DePoy, Easy
• 2005 Neal Bell, Spatter Pattern
• 2006 Gary Earl Ross, Matter of Intent
• 2007 Steven Dietz, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure
• 2008 Joseph Goodrich, Panic
• 2009 Ifa Bayeza, The Ballad of Emmett Till

  2010s

• 2011 Sam Bobrick, The Psychic
• 2012 Ken Ludwig, The Game's Afoot