Martin Edwards, Author . Little, Brown $17.95 (370p) ISBN 978-0-316-72563-7
Did you know that the much-prized Gold Dagger Award given out by the British Crime Writers' Association was known as the "Crossed Red Herring Award" when the group had its first luncheon in 1953? (It went to Winston Graham, of Poldark
...
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Martin Edwards, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (286p) ISBN 978-1-59058-129-2
In this well-crafted whodunit from veteran British crime writer Edwards (All the Lonely People
), Daniel Kind, a popular historian best known for a TV series that tries to solve historical mysteries using classic Holmesian deductive methods, decides
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Martin Edwards, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (266p) ISBN 978-1-59058-206-0
When the body of Warren Howe, master landscaper and equally masterful ladies' man, is found hacked apart with a scythe in a garden in Old Sawrey, England, suspicion falls on his wife, Tina, in Edwards's engaging second Lake District mystery (
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Martin Edwards, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (294p) ISBN 978-1-59058-328-9
Edwards's crisply written third contemporary mystery set in England's Lake District (after 2005's The Cipher Garden
) turns on the unsolved disappearance of Emma Bestwick, a woman who went missing a decade earlier. Guy Koenig, a con man...
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Martin Edwards, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (318p) ISBN 978-1-59058-441-5
At the start of the impressive eighth entry in Edwards’s Harry Devlin series (All the Lonely People
, etc.), the Liverpool attorney receives a fake newspaper notice announcing his death on Midsummer’s Eve. Subsequent threatening messages
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Martin Edwards, Author . Poisoned Pen $25 (284p) ISBN 978-1-59058-593-1
The musty, sedate world of old books provides the backdrop for a series of gruesome murders in Edwards's absorbing fourth Lake District mystery (after 2007's The Arsenic Labyrinth
). Rare book dealers prove an unexpectedly randy lot as...
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Martin Edwards, Author Five Star (ME) $25.95 (287p) ISBN 978-1-59414-069-3
Martin Edwards's first novel of marital woe and murder.
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Martin Edwards, Author Severn House Publishers $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5132-1
Crime Writers' Association anthologies have appeared annually for 40 years, skipping only 1995. Nineteen members of the CWA have contributed new stories to this collection, first published in Great Britain in 1996. Kate Charles, a transplanted...
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Martin Edwards, Author Foul Play Press $22.95 (202p) ISBN 978-0-393-04635-9
Harry Devlin is a younger Rumpole, a lawyer based in Liverpool instead of London but with similar tastes in offbeat criminal cases. His steadier partner, Jim Crusoe, says that ""for Harry Devlin, even a bus ticket promised a plot twist,"" and this...
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Martin Edwards. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (286p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0107-3
Edwards’s layered, atmospheric sixth Lake District mystery (after 2011’s The Hanging Wood) finds Det. Chief Insp. Hannah Scarlett, who heads the Cumbria cold-case unit, facing budget cuts that threaten to gut her division. To make things worse, her...
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Martin Edwards. Harper, $25.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-00-810596-9
Crime novelist Edwards (Frozen Shroud), the archivist for the legendary Detection Club of crime authors, reveals the hidden lives of its members in a comprehensive and well-written narrative that combines biography with literary criticism. He...
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Martin Edwards. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (280p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0320-6
At the start of Edwards’s engrossing seventh Lake District mystery (after 2013’s The Frozen Shroud), Malcolm Whiteley, the proprietor of the majestic Dungeon House, is depressed over business problems and enraged at his wife Lysette’s infidelities...
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Edited by Martin Edwards. Poisoned Pen, $12.95 trade paper (298p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0499-9
Like an assortment of presents under a Christmas tree, there’s something for everyone in this Yule-themed reprint anthology in the British Library Crime Classics series from Edwards (Guilty Parties). The 15 selections range from stories by such...
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Martin Edwards. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (366p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0721-1
Written as a companion to the British Library’s Crime Classics series of reprints, this descriptive critical catalogue of 100 crime and mystery novels (mostly British) published in the first half of the 20th century is irresistible for aficionados...
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Edited by Martin Edwards. History/Mystery (IPG, dist.), $12.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-7524-6300-1
The second Murder Squad anthology (after 2001’s Murder Squad) showcases the talents of five British authors: Ann Cleeves, Martin Edwards, Margaret Murphy, Stuart Pawson, and Cath Staincliffe. The 13 stories range from a high-quality Sherlock Holmes...
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Martin Edwards, Author Five Star $25.95 (343p) ISBN 978-1-59414-848-4
While this fictional recreation of one of the early 20th century’s most notorious crimes ranks among Edwards’s best work, it has the misfortune to follow two superior books on the subject: Erik Larson’s nonfiction Thunderstruck
(20
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Martin Edwards. Poisoned Pen, $15.99 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-4642-1552-0
In the tantalizing opening of Edgar winner Edwards’s intriguing eighth mystery featuring Det. Chief Insp. Hannah Scarlett (after 2015’s The Dungeon House), cold case specialist Hannah asks an unidentified person why they killed Ramona Smith. Flash...
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Martin Edwards. Poisoned Pen, $15.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-4926-9928-6
In this exceptional series launch from Edgar–winner Edwards (Dancing for the Hangman) set in 1930 London, ambitious tabloid journalist Jacob Flint is hoping to make a name for himself by interviewing Rachel Savernake, a judge’s daughter, whose...
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Martin Edwards. Poisoned Pen, $15.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-4642-1405-9
Set in 1930s England, Edgar winner Edwards’s sequel to 2019’s Gallows Court is a triumph, from its tantalizing opening, in which an unnamed dying man begins to explain an unspecified perfect crime, through its scrupulously fair final reveal. Rachel...
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Martin Edwards. Collins Crime Club, $29.99 (800p) ISBN 978-0-00-819242-6
Edwards (The Golden Age of Murder), an archivist for the Crime Writers’ Association, puts his expertise to good use in this magisterial history of crime fiction. The author traces the roots of crime fiction beyond where most scholars start; while he
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Martin Edwards. Poisoned Pen, $16.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-7282-7104-0
Heiress Rachel Savernake investigates baffling deaths and disappearances that take place centuries apart in Edwards’s intricate third mystery featuring the amateur sleuth (following 2020’s Mortmain Hall). Nell Fagan, looking to reignite her career...
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