Martin Edwards

Sub-genre: Amateur detective, Historical, suspense

Martin Edwards received the CWA Diamond Dagger, the highest honour in UK crime writing, in 2020. His recent novels include Sepulchre Street and Gallows Court, bothe of which were nominated for the CWA Historical Dagger. His ground-breaking history of the genre, The Life of Crime has won the Edgar and H.R.F. Keating awards and shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. This year he received both the George N. Dove award from the Popular Culture Association for his outstanding scholarship and the Golden Derringer, a lifetime achievement award, for his short stories In 2018 he received the CWA Dagger in the Library, awarded by UK librarians, for his body of work. He has won two Edgars, and Agatha, Macavity (twice), and the Poirot award in the USA, and the CWA Short Story Dagger, CWA Margery Allingham Prize, and the H.R.F. Keating award (three times) in the UK. His latest Lake District Mystery is The Crooked Shore, published in 2021. The series began with The Coffin Trail (shortlisted for the Theakston’s prize for best British crime novel) and includes The Arsenic Labyrinth (shortlisted for the Lakeland Book of the Year award) and The Crooked Shore. His first series featuring Liverpool lawyer Harry Devlin began with All the Lonely People, nominated for the John Creasey Memorial Dagger, and has recently been reissued.

The author of over 80 short stories, he has also edited 40 anthologies and published ten non-fiction books, including a study of crime scene investigation techniques and real life cases. A well-known critic and writer about the crime fiction genre, past and present, with The Golden Age of Murder exemplifying his knowledge of crime fiction and its authors in the 1920s and 1930s, Martin is President and Archivist of the world-famous Detection Club and a former Chair of the CWA. He is also series consultant to British Library’s highly successful series of crime classics, and has published The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books. and Howdunit, two more award-winning books. Martin is a founder member of the Murder Squad collective of northern crime writers and is currently Archivist of the Crime Writers’ Association and editor of its annual anthology.

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Other Awards

• Red Herring Award – 2012 winner
• Margery Allingham Short Story Competition – 2014 winner, with Acknowledgements
• Two Edgar Allan Poe awards from Mystery Writers of America
• Agatha award from Malice Domestic
• Two Macavity awards from Mystery Readers International
• Three H.R.F. Keating awards from Crimefest
• Poirot award from Malice Domestic

Books by Martin Edwards

• The Life of Crime

  

• Howdunit

  

• The Crooked Shore

  

• Gallows Court

  

• Mortmain Hall

  

• The Golden Age of Murder

  

• The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books

  

• The Lazarus Widow (with Bill Knox)

  

• The Serpent Pool

  

• Waterloo Sunset (Harry Devlin Novel)

  

• Yesterday’s Papers

  

• Where Do You Find Your Ideas? And Other Stories

  

• The Cipher Garden

  

• The Coffin Trail

  

• The Devil in Disguise (Harry Devlin Novel)

  

• The Frozen Shroud

  

• The Hanging Wood

  

• First Cut is the Deepest (Harry Devlin Novel)

  

• I Remember You (Harry Devlin Novel)

  

• Suspicious Minds (Harry Devlin Novel)

  

• Take My Breath Away

  

• The Arsenic Labyrinth

  

• All the Lonely People (Harry Devlin Novel)

  

• Dancing for the Hangman

  

• Eve of Destruction (Harry Devlin Novel)

  

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