Falcon Awards
The Falcon Award is awarded by the members of the Maltese Falcon Society of Japan for the best hardboiled novel published in Japan. The winning author receives a certificate of merit and a falcon sculpture crafted in wood.
- 1983 Early Autumn by Robert B. Parker
- 1984 The Old Dick by L.A. Morse
- 1985 The Wrong Case by James Crumley
- 1986 Hammett by Joe Gores
- 1987 When the Sacred Ginmill Closes by Lawrence Block
- 1988 Hard Line by Michael Z. Lewin
- 1989 Strega by Andrew Vachss
- 1990 A Girl Who I Killed by Ryo Hara
- 1991 "F" Is for Fugitive by Sue Grafton
- 1992 A Ticket to the Boneyard by Lawrence Block
- 1993 Book Case by Stephen Greenleaf
- 1994 A Cool Breeze on the Underground by Don Winslow
- 1995 The Black Ice by Michael Connelly
- 1996 no winner
- 1997 White Jazz by James Ellroy
- 1998 no winner
- 1999 The Big Blowdown by George Pelecanos
- 2000-2004 no winner
- 2005 The Wrong Goodbye by Toshihiko Yahagi
- 2006 Lost Light by Michael Connelly
- 2007 Under the Skin by James Carlos Blake
- 2008 No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
- 2009 Winter and Night by S.J. Rozan
- 2010 The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow
- 2011 The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow
- 2012 no winner
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“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,”
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