Martin Edwards è un autore britannico di fama, noto per i suoi romanzi di fiction criminale e per i suoi contributi critici al genere. Nato a Knutsford, Edwards ha frequentato una scuola grammaticale locale nella contea del Cheshire e in seguito ha studiato alla Balliol College, Oxford University, dove si è laureato con lode nel 1977. Dopo essersi qualificato come avvocato nel 1980, si è trasferito a Liverpool e ha intrapreso una carriera di successo nel campo legale.
Oltre al suo lavoro legale, Edwards ha scritto diversi articoli e libri legali, nonché numerose serie di fiction. Le sue serie Harry Devlin e Lake District Mysteries hanno guadagnato una notevole popolarità. Edwards è anche un membro fondatore della Northern Chapter of the Crime Writers' Association e del Murder Squad, dimostrando il suo impegno per la comunità della fiction criminale.
A Martin Edwards sono stati assegnati numerosi riconoscimenti per il suo lavoro, tra cui il CWA Diamond Dagger, il più alto onore nella scrittura criminale britannica. I suoi romanzi più recenti, come "Mortmain Hall" e "Gallows Court", sono stati ben accolti, con quest'ultimo che ha ottenuto nomination per due premi. Nel 2018, i bibliotecari britannici hanno riconosciuto il suo corpus di lavoro con il CWA Dagger in the Library. Edwards ha inoltre curato oltre 40 antologie ed ha pubblicato diversi libri di saggistica, mettendo in mostra la sua competenza nella storia della fiction criminale. È l'archivista di entrambe la Crime Writers' Association e la Detection Club, ed è stato eletto suo ottavo Presidente nel 2015. Edwards tiene anche un blog regolare, "Do You Write Under Your Own Name?", consolidando ulteriormente il suo status di figura di spicco nella fiction criminale.
Harry Devlin Books
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1
All the Lonely People
1991
2
Suspicious Minds
1992
3
I Remember You
1993
4
Yesterday's Papers
1994
5
Eve of Destruction
1997
6
The Devil in Disguise
1998
7
First Cut is the Deepest
1999
8
Waterloo Sunset
2008
Lake District Mysteries Books
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1
The Coffin Trail
2004
2
The Cipher Garden
2005
3
The Arsenic Labyrinth
2007
4
The Serpent Pool
2010
5
The Hanging Wood
2011
6
The Frozen Shroud
2013
7
The Dungeon House
2015
8
The Crooked Shore / The Girl They All Forgot
2021
Rachel Savernake Books
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Anno
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1
Gallows Court
2018
2
Mortmain Hall
2020
3
Blackstone Fell / The Puzzle of Blackstone Lodge
2022
4
Sepulchre Street
2023
Romanzi singoli
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1
Take My Breath Away
2003
2
Dancing For The Hangman
2008
Racconti brevi/Novelle
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1
Thrumm
2002
2
Murder and its Motives
2016
3
Strangers in a Pub
2018
Raccolte di racconti
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Anno
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1
Where Do You Find Your Ideas?
2001
2
The New Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
2014
3
The Out-Islands: Poems
2021
Libri di non-fiction
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Anno
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1
Executive Survival
1988
2
Urge to Kill / Motive to Murder
2002
3
Catching Killers
2003
4
Truly Criminal
2015
5
The Golden Age of Murder
2015
6
The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books
2017
7
Howdunit!
2020
8
This Deadly Isle: A Golden Age Mystery Map
2022
9
The Life of Crime
2022
British Library Crime Classics Books
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1
The Notting Hill Mystery
1862
2
The Female Detective
1864
3
The Poisoned Chocolates Case
1929
4
It Walks by Night
1930
5
The Secret of High Eldersham / The Mystery of High Eldersham
1930
6
Mystery in the Channel
1931
7
Castle Skull
1931
8
The Incredible Crime
1931
9
Murder of a Lady
1931
10
The Lost Gallows
1931
11
The Z Murders
1931
12
The Corpse in the Waxworks / The Waxworks Murder
1932
13
The Division Bell Mystery
1932
14
Portrait of a Murderer
1933
15
Death in Fancy Dress
1933
16
Family Matters
1933
17
The Hog's Back Mystery
1933
18
Murder Underground
1934
19
Scarweather
1934
20
Death of an Airman
1934
21
The Spy Paramount
1934
22
The 12.30 from Croydon
1934
23
The Chianti Flask
1934
24
The Lake District Murder
1935
25
Death on the Cherwell
1935
26
The Cornish Coast Murder
1935
27
The Traitor
1936
28
The Santa Klaus Murder
1936
29
The Sussex Downs Murder
1936
30
Death in the Tunnel / Dark in the Tunnel
1936
31
Mystery in White
1937
32
Bats in the Belfry
1937
33
The Cheltenham Square Murder
1937
34
Excellent Intentions
1938
35
Murder in the Museum
1938
36
Antidote to Venom
1938
37
Thirteen Guests
1938
38
The Port of London Murders
1938
39
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
1939
40
Seven Dead
1939
41
Verdict of Twelve
1940
42
A Scream in Soho
1940
43
Death of a Busybody
1942
44
The Dead Shall be Raised & Murder of a Quack
1942
45
Somebody at the Door
1943
46
Murder's a Swine: A Second World War Mystery
1943
47
Checkmate to Murder
1944
48
Fell Murder
1944
49
Murder by Matchlight
1945
50
Trouble on the Thames
1945
51
Fire in the Thatch
1946
52
Death Makes a Prophet
1947
53
Smallbone Deceased
1950
54
Calamity in Kent
1950
55
Death Has Deep Roots
1951
56
The Danger Within / Death in Captivity
1952
57
Murder in the Mill-Race
1952
58
Crossed Skis
1952
59
Death on the Riviera
1952
60
The Colour Of Murder
1957
61
The Christmas Egg
1958
62
The Progress of a Crime
1960
63
The Spoilt Kill
1961
64
The Body in the Dumb River
1961
65
Due to a Death
1963
66
Surfeit of Suspects
1964
67
The Belting Inheritance
1965
68
The Last Best Friend
1967
69
The End of the Web
1976
70
Capital Crimes: London Mysteries
2015
71
Resorting to Murder
2015
72
Silent Nights
2015
73
Murder at the Manor
2016
74
Serpents in Eden
2016
75
Crimson Snow
2016
76
Foreign Bodies
2017
77
The Long Arm of the Law
2017
78
Miraculous Mysteries
2017
79
Continental Crimes
2017
80
Blood on the Tracks
2018
81
The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories
2018
82
Golden Age of Detection Puzzle Book
2018
83
Deep Waters: Murder on the Waves
2019
84
The Measure of Malice
2019
85
Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries
2020
86
A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries
2020
87
Two-Way Murder
2021
88
Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries
2021
Bibliomysteries Books (with C.J. Box, with John Connolly, with Stephen Hunter, with Anne Perry, with Charles Todd, with Ian Rankin, with Jeffery Deaver, with Joe R. Lansdale, with Reed Farrel Coleman, with Laura Lippman, with Lisa Unger, with Michael Koryta, with R.L. Stine, with Nelson DeMille, with Peter Robinson, with Thomas Perry, with Denise Mina, with Loren D. Estleman, with Thomas H. Cook, with John Harvey, with James Grady, with Max Allan Collins, with Joyce Carol Oates, with David Handler, with James W. Hall, with Megan Abbott, with Carolyn Hart, with Mickey Spillane, with Christopher Fowler, with F. Paul Wilson, with Peter Lovesey, with William Link, with Robert Butler, with Lyndsay Faye, with Ken Bruen, with Bradford Morrow, with David Bell, with Peter Swanson, with Peter Blauner, with Andrew Taylor)
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1
The Book of Virtue
2012
2
Pronghorns of the Third Reich
2012
3
The Book Thing
2012
4
The Book Case
2012
5
An Acceptable Sacrifice
2012
6
Death Leaves a Bookmark
2012
7
The Final Testament
2013
8
Rides a Stranger
2013
9
The Long Sonata of the Dead
2013
10
The Book of Ghosts
2013
11
The Compendium of Srem
2014
12
What's in a Name?
2014
13
Remaindered
2014
14
The Sequel
2014
15
The Gospel of Sheba
2014
16
Book Club
2014
17
The Nature of My Inheritance
2014
18
It's in the Book
2014
19
The Scroll
2014
20
The Book of the Lion
2015
21
The Little Men
2015
22
Condor in the Stacks
2015
23
Mystery, Inc.
2015
24
Every Seven Years
2015
25
From the Queen
2015
26
The Travelling Companion
2016
27
Citadel
2016
28
Reconciliation Day
2016
29
Dead Dames Don't Sing
2016
30
The Haze
2016
31
Hoodoo Harry
2017
32
The Pretty Little Box
2018
33
Seven Years
2018
34
The Hemingway Valise
2018
35
The Last Honest Horse Thief
2018
36
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository
2018
37
The Girl Who Did Say No
2020
38
The Traitor
2022
39
The Dark Door
2022
40
The Honeymoon Trap
2022
Bibliomysteries Series in Chronological Order
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Titolo
Anno
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1
The Book of Virtue
2012
2
The Scroll
2014
3
Pronghorns of the Third Reich
2012
4
An Acceptable Sacrifice
2012
5
Death Leaves a Bookmark
2012
6
Seven Years
2018
7
The Book Thing
2012
8
The Book of Ghosts
2013
9
Book Club
2014
10
The Long Sonata of the Dead
2013
11
The Final Testament
2013
12
Rides a Stranger
2013
13
What's in a Name?
2014
14
It's in the Book
2014
15
The Nature of My Inheritance
2014
16
Remaindered
2014
17
The Compendium of Srem
2014
18
The Gospel of Sheba
2014
19
The Sequel
2014
20
The Book of the Lion
2015
21
The Little Men
2015
22
Every Seven Years
2015
23
Citadel
2016
24
Condor in the Stacks
2015
25
Mystery, Inc.
2015
26
The Travelling Companion
2016
27
The Haze
2016
28
Dead Dames Don't Sing
2016
29
Reconciliation Day
2016
30
Hoodoo Harry
2017
31
The Pretty Little Box
2018
32
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository
2018
33
The Hemingway Valise
2018
34
The Last Honest Horse Thief
2018
35
The Book Case
2012
36
From the Queen
2015
37
The Girl Who Did Say No
2020
38
The Traitor
2022
39
The Dark Door
2022
40
The Honeymoon Trap
2022
Thane and Moss Books
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1
Deadline for a Dream / In at the Kill
1957
2
Death Department
1959
3
Leave it to the Hangman
1960
4
Little Drops of Blood
1962
5
Sanctuary Isle / The Gray Sentinels
1962
6
The Man In The Bottle
1963
7
The Taste of Proof
1965
8
The Deep Fall / The Ghost Car
1966
9
Justice on the Rocks
1967
10
The Tallyman
1969
11
Children of the Mist / Who Shot the Bull
1970
12
To Kill a Witch
1971
13
Draw Batons! / Penalty Shootout
1973
14
Children of the Water
1974
15
Rally to Kill
1975
16
Pilot Error
1977
17
Live Bait
1979
18
A Killing in Antiques
1981
19
The Hanging Tree
1985
20
The Crossfire Killings
1986
21
The Interface man
1990
22
Blood Proof
1999
23
Death Bytes
1999
24
The Lazarus Widow
2000
Martin Edwards Anthologies
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Titolo
Anno
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1
Ask a Policeman
1933
2
Northern Blood
1992
3
Northern Blood 2
1995
4
Perfectly Criminal
1996
5
Shakespearean Whodunnits
1997
6
Perfectly Criminal 2: Whydunit?
1997
7
Northern Blood 3
1998
8
Past Crimes: Perfectly Criminal III
1999
9
Missing Persons
1999
10
Scenes of Crime: CWA Anthology 2000
2000
11
Crimewave 6
2002
12
Murder Squad
2002
13
Mysterious Pleasures
2003
14
Crime in the City
2003
15
Green for Danger
2004
16
Crime on the Move
2005
17
I.D.: Crimes of Identity
2006
18
M.O.: Crimes of Practice
2008
19
Original Sins
2010
20
Best Eaten Cold and Other Stories: A Murder Squad Anthology
2011
21
Guilty Consciences
2012
22
Deadly Pleasures
2013
23
Guilty Parties
2014
24
Capital Crimes: London Mysteries
2015
25
Resorting to Murder
2015
26
Truly Criminal
2015
27
Silent Nights
2015
28
The Mammoth Book of the Adventures of Professor Moriarty
2015
29
The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories
2015
30
Murder at the Manor
2016
31
Serpents in Eden
2016
32
Crimson Snow
2016
33
Motives for Murder
2016
34
Foreign Bodies
2017
35
The Long Arm of the Law
2017
36
Miraculous Mysteries
2017
37
Continental Crimes
2017
38
CWA Anthology of Short Stories: Mystery Tour
2017
39
Blood on the Tracks
2018
40
The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories
2018
41
Ten Year Stretch
2018
42
The Measure of Malice
2019
43
The Christmas Card Crime
2019
44
Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries
2020
45
Blood Sports
2020
46
Vintage Crime
2020
47
A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries