CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION'S MACALLAN GOLD DAGGER FOR FICTION 1955-2002
The Crime Writers’ Association of Great Britain was founded in 1953 and is open to published writers of crime fiction and non-fiction. The Macallan Daggers are sponsored by The Macallan, distillers of the single Highland malt whiskey, in association with the Crime Writers' Association. The CWA Gold Dagger is awarded for the best crime novel of the year.
 The Athenian Murders | Jose Carlos Somoza | 2002 |
| Sidetracked | Henning Menkell | 2001 |
| Motherless Brooklyn | Jonathan Lethem | 2000 |
| A Small Death in Lisbon | Robert Wilson | 1999 |
| Sunset Limited | James Lee Burke | 1998 |
| Black & Blue | Ian Rankin | 1997 |
| Popcorn | Ben Elton | 1996 |
| The Mermaids Singing | Val McDermid | 1995 |
| The Scold's Bride | Minette Walters | 1994 |
| Cruel and Unusual | Patricia D. Cornwell | 1993 |
| The Way Through the Woods | Colin Dexter | 1992 |
| King Solomon's Carpet | Barbara Vine | 1991 |
| Bones and Silence | Reginald Hill | 1990 |
| The Wench Is Dead | Colin Dexter | 1989 |
| Ratking | Michael Dibdin | 1988 |
| A Fatal Inversion | Barbara Vine | 1987 |
| Live Flesh | Ruth Rendell | 1986 |
| Monkey Puzzle | Paula Gosling | 1985 |
| The Twelfth Juror | B.M. Gill | 1984 |
| Accidental Crimes | John Hutton | 1983 |
| The False Inspector Dew | Peter Lovesey | 1982 |
| Gorky Park | Martin Cruz Smith | 1981 |
| The Murder of the Maharajah | H.R.F. Keating | 1980 |
| Whip Hand | Dick Francis | 1979 |
| The Chelsea Murders | Lionel Davidson | 1978 |
| The Honourable Schoolboy | John Le Carre | 1977 |
| A Demon in My View | Ruth Rendell | 1976 |
| The Seven Percent Solution | Nicholas Meyer | 1975 |
| Other Paths to Glory | Anthony Price | 1974 |
| The Defection of A.J. Lewinter | Robert Littell | 1973 |
| The Levanter | Eric Ambler | 1972 |
| The Steam Pig | James McClure | 1971 |
| Young Man, I Think You're Dying | Joan Fleming | 1970 |
| A Pride of Heroes | Peter Dickinson | 1969 |
| Skin Deep | Peter Dickinson | 1968 |
| Murder Against the Grain | Emma Lathen | 1967 |
| A Long Way to Shiloh | Lionel Davidson | 1966 |
| The Far Side of the Dollar | Ross Macdonald | 1965 |
| The Perfect Murder | H.R.F. Keating | 1964 |
| The Spy Who Came In From the Cold | John Le Carre | 1963 |
| When I Grow Rich | Joan Fleming | 1962 |
| The Spoilt Kill | Mary Kelly | 1961 |
| The Night of Wenceslas | Lionel Davidson | 1960 |
| Passage of Arms | Eric Ambler | 1959 |
| Someone From the Past | Margot Bennett | 1958 |
| The Colour of Murder | Julian Symons | 1957 |
| The Second Man | Edward Grierson | 1956 |
| The Little Walls | Winston Graham | 1955 |