1. Leo Bruce - Our Jubilee Is Death (1959) (category: Murder on the High Seas)
2. John Rhode - Death of a Godmother (1955) (category: Wicked Women)
3. Ellis Peters - Death Mask (1959) (category: Genuine Fakes)
4. Hillary Waugh - The Eighth Mrs. Bluebeard (1958) (category: Colorful Crime)
5. Rex Stout - Not Quite Dead Enough (1944) (category: Dynamic Duos)
6. Philip MacDonald - The Choice (1931) (category: A Mystery by Any Other Name)
7. E. C. R. Lorac - Shepherd's Crook (1953) (category: Jolly Old England)
8. Mignon G. Eberhart, The White Cockatoo (1933) (category: Dangerous Beasts)
