AGATHA AWARDS
BEST SHORT STORY

I am listing the winner right after the category, followed by the other nominations for that year.

2007
Best Short Story:  A Rat's Tale by Donna Andrews

Please Watch Your Step by Rhys Bowen
Casino Gamble by Nan Higginson
Popping Round To The Post by Peter Lovesey
Death Will Clean Your Closet by Elizabeth Zelvin

2006
Best Short Story: Sleeping with the Plush by Toni L.P. Kelner

The Old Couple by Robert Barnard
Provenance by Robert Barnard
Yankee Swap by Maurissa Guibord
Disturbance in the Field by Roberta Isleib

2005
Best Short Story: Driven to Distraction by Marcia Talley

House Rules by Libby Fischer Hellmann
Mother Love by Harriette Sackler
Murder at Sleuthfest by Barb Goffman
Rear View Murder by Carla Coupe

2004
Best Short Story: Wedding Knife by Elaine Viets

The Butler Didn’t Do It by Maria Y. Lima
The Two Marys by Katherine Hall Page

2003
Best Short Story: No Man’s Land by Elizabeth Foxwell

Doppleganger by Rhys Bowen
Safety First by Marcia Talley
Red Meat by Elaine Viets
Sex and Bingo by Elaine Viets

2002
Best Short Story: Tie: Too Many Cooks by Marcia Talley
                Tie: The Dog that Didn't Bark by Margaret Maron

Dognapped by Robert Barnard
Devotion by Jan Burke
What He Needed by Laura Lippman

2001
Best Short Story: The Would-be-Widower by Katherine Hall Page 

Bitter Waters by Rochelle Krich
The Peculiar Events on Riverside Drive by Maan Meyers
Juggernaut by Nancy Springer
Virgo in Sapphires by Margaret Maron

2000
Best Short Story: The Man in the Civil Suit by Jan Burke

Nothing to Lose by Robert Barnard
The Seal of the Confessional by Rhys Bowen
Amish Butter by Jacqueline Fiedler
Miss Parker & the Cutter-Sanborn Tables by Gay Toltl Kinman
Widow's Peak by Rochelle Krich

1999
Best Short Story: Out of Africa by Nancy Pickard 

Maubi and the Jumbies by Kate Grilley
The Golden Rounds by Susan Holtzer
With Thanks to Agatha Christie by Sarah J. Mason
With Love, Marjorie Ann by Marcia Talley

1998
Best Short Story: Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is A Vegetable by Barbara D’Amato 

Sleeping Dogs Lie by Laurien Berenson
A Simple Philosophy by Harlan Coben
The Village Vampire and the Oboe of Death by Dean James
A Deliberate Form of Frenzy by Daniel Stashower

1997
Best Short Story: Tea for Two by M.D. Lake

Heavenly Bodies by Simon Brett
Come To Tea by Janet Laurence
Corbett Correspondence by Edward Marston & Peter Lovesey
Two Ladies of Rose Cottage by Peter Robinson

1996
Best Short Story: Accidents Will Happen by Carolyn Wheat

The Bun Also Rises by Jill Churchill
The Death of Erik the Redneck by Toni L.P. Kelner
A Parrot Is Forever by Peter Lovesey
Bugged by Eve K. Sandstrom

1995
Best Short Story: The Dog Who Remembered Too Much by Elizabeth Daniels Squire 

Rule of Law by K.K. Beck
Cupid's Arrow by Dorothy Cannell
A Contest Fit for a Queen by Susan Dunlap
The Murder Game by Jean Hager

1994
Best Short Story: The Family Jewels by Dorothy Cannell

Cast Your Fate to the Wind by Deborah Adams
The Gentleman in the Lake by Robert Barnard
Soon to be a Minor Motion Picture by Barbara D'Amato
The Dying Light by Taylor McCafferty

1993
Best Short Story: Kim's Game by M.D. Lake 

A Romance in the Rockies by K.K. Beck
Sax and the Single Cat by Carole Nelson Douglas
Checkout by Susan Dunlap
...That Married Dear Old Dad by Margaret Maron

1992
Best Short Story: Nice Gorilla by Aaron and Charlotte Elkins

The Jersey Lily by P.M. Carlson
Country Hospitality by Jean Hager
The Last to Know by Joan Hess
Happiness Is a Dead Poet by Sharyn McCrumb

1991
Best Short Story: Deborah's Judgment by Margaret Maron 

The Habit of Widowhood by Robert Barnard
The January Sales Stowaway  by Dorothy Cannell
The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown by Peter Lovesey
Long Live the Queen by Ruth Rendell

1990
Best Short Story: Too Much To Bare by Joan Hess 

The High Cost of Living by Dorothy Cannell
Proxime Accessit by Reginald Hill
A Family Affair by Janet Neel
The Wearing of Purple by Anne Woodward

1989
Best Short Story: A Wee Doch and Doris by Sharyn McCrumb

Live It Up, Bert by Patricia Derozier
Amanda by Ellie Grossman
A Cozy for Christmas by Charlotte MacLeod
Afraid All the Time by Nancy Pickard

1988
Best Short Story: More Final than Divorce by Robert Barnard 

Prodigal Grandson by Elizabeth Byrd
Father of the Bride by P.M. Carlson
Double Vision by Mary Higgins Clark
Dutiful Son by Ralph McInerny