Il premio Agatha per il miglior racconto breve (in inglese Best Short Story), è una delle cinque categorie in cui viene assegnato regolarmente, durante il premio letterario statunitense Agatha Award dalla Malice Domestic Ltd. dal 1989 in omaggio ad un racconto breve pubblicato per la prima volta in una Antologia. Il premio viene assegnato dalla Malice Domestic Ltd durante una Conferenza Nazionale annuale. I maggiori successi in questa categoria sono stati di Dana Cameron (200, 2011 e 2012) e Art Taylor (2013, 2014 e 2016) ai quali è stato assegnato il premio tre volte.
I racconti devono essere stati nel corso dell'anno precedente pubblicato la prima volta in un'antologia.
Albo d'oro
AnnoVincitoreTitolo originaleTitolo originale dell'antologia(dove è stato pubblicato il racconto)1988Robert BarnardMore Final Than DivorceEllery Queen Mystery Magazine1989Sharyn McCrumbA Wee Doch And DorisMistletoe Mysteries (Mysterious Press)1990Joan HessToo Much To BareSisters in Crime 2 (Berkley Publishing Group)1991Margaret MaronDeborah's JudgmentA Woman's Eye (Delacourte Press)1992Aaron ElkinsCharlotte ElkinsNice GorillaMalice Domestic 1 (Pocket Books)1993M. D. LakeKim's GameMalice Domestic 2 (Pocket Books)1994Dorothy CannellThe Family JewelsMalice Domestic 3 (Pocket Books)1995Elizabeth Daniels SquireThe Dog Who Remembered Too MuchMalice Domestic 4 (Pocket Books)1996Carolyn WheatAccidents Will HappenMalice Domestic 5 (Pocket Books)1997M. D. LakeTea for TwoFunnybones (Penguin Books)1998Barbara D'AmatoOf Course You Know That Chocolate Is A VegetableEllery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Novembre 19981999Nancy PickardOut of AfricaMom, Apple Pie, and Murder (Berkley Publishing Group)2000Jan BurkeThe Man in the Civil SuitMalice Domestic 9 (Avon Books)2001Katherine Hall PageThe Would-Be-WidowerMalice Domestic X (Avon Books)2002Margaret MaronThe Dog That Didn't Bark Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Dicembre 2002Marcia TalleyToo Many CooksMuch Ado About Murder (Berkley Prime Crime)2003Elizabeth FoxwellNo Man's LandBlood On Their Hands (Berkley Prime Crime)2004Elaine VietsWedding KnifeChesapeake Crimes (Quiet Storm Publishing)2005Marcia Talley-ChesapeakeDriven to DistractionCrimes II (Quiet Storm Publishing)2006Toni L. P. KelnerSleeping with the PlushAlfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Maggio 20062007Donna AndrewsA Rat's TaleEllery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sett./Ott. 20072008Dana CameronThe Night Things ChangedWolfsbane & Mistletoe (Hg.: Charlaine Harris)2009Hank Phillippi RyanOn the HouseQuarry (Hg.: Kate Flora u. a.; Level Best Books)2010Mary Jane MaffiniSu Much in CommonEllery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sett./Ott. 20102011Dana CameronDisarmingEllery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Giu. 20112012Dana CameronMischief in MesopotamiaEllery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Nov. 20122013Art TaylorThe Care and Feeding the House PlantsEllery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Marz/Apr. 20132014Art TaylorThe Odds Are Against UsEllery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Nov. 20142015Barb GoffmanA Year Without Santa Claus?Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Gen./Feb. 20152016Art TaylorParallel PlayChesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning2017Gigi PandianThe Library Ghost of Tanglewood InnHenery Press2018Leslie BudewitzAll God’s SparrowsAlfred Hitchcock Mystery MagazineTara LaskowskiThe Case of the Vanishing ProfessorAlfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine2019Shawn Reilly SimmonsThe Last WordMalice Domestic 14: Mystery Most Edible2020Barb GoffmanDear Emily EtiquetteEllery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sett./Ott. 20202021Shawn Reilly SimmonsBay of ReckoningMurder on the Beach (Destination Murders)2022Barb GoffmanBeauty and the BeyotchSherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, Issue 292023Dru Ann Love and Kristopher ZgorskiTicket to RideHappiness Is a Warm Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of The Beatles
Collegamenti esterni
Premio Agatha per il miglior racconto breve