Martin Edwards

'A true master of British crime writing.' RICHARD OSMAN A cursed island. A macabre party. An impossible crime. Five years after film star Godiva Lee died under suspicious circumstances, Boris Unthank gathers everyone connected to her death for a ‘party’ on the isolated Fever Island. A...

Combining the best of Golden Age crime fiction with the pacing of a modern thriller, the next installment of the beloved Rachel Savernake Golden Age Mysteries will hook readers immediately with its shocking and gruesome first twist, then keep them turning pages almost faster than the bodies drop...

Next in the Rachel Savernake series comes Mortmain Hall, perfect for fans of the Golden Age of mystery and readers of Anthony Horowitz and Sherry Thomas. Framed for murder and with nowhere to go, Jacob Flint turns to an eclectic group of people on a remote estate to save him… 1930. A chilling...

The first Golden Age-style mystery in the Rachel Savernake series… How close can one person get to a cruel justice system before falling victim to it? London, 1930 Sooty, sulfurous, and malign: no woman should be out on a night like this. A spate of violent deaths—the details too foul to...

Behind the stage lights and word-perfect soliloquies, sinister secrets are lurking in the wings. The mysteries in this collection reveal the dark side to theatre and performing arts....

This new collection presents 17 classic stories, spanning a period from the 1880s to the 1970s, by a host of Scottish authors alongside writers....

Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating Awards; and shortlisted for both the Agatha and Gold Dagger Awards. ‘Martin Edwards is the closest thing there has been to a philosopher of crime...

There is no better hiding place for clues - or red herrings - than inside the pages of a book. With Martin Edwards as librarian and guide, delve into an irresistible stack of tales perfect for every book lover and armchair sleuth, featuring much-loved Golden Age detectives....

Death has come twice to Ravenbank, a remote community in England’s Lake District, each time on Halloween. Just before the First World War, a young woman’s corpse was found, with a makeshift shroud frozen to her battered face. Her ghost - the Faceless Woman - is said to walk through Ravenbank...

The stories in this collection will dredge up delight in crime fiction fans, as watery graves claim unsuspecting victims on the sands of an estuary and disembodied whispers penetrate the sleeping quarters of a ship's captain....

The main aim of detective stories is to entertain, but the best cast a light on human behaviour and display both literary ambition and accomplishment....

A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman’s watchful eye. A jewel heist is planned amidst the glitz and glamour of Oxford Street’s Christmas shopping....

Winner of the 2016 EDGAR, AGATHA, MACAVITY and H.R.F.KEATING crime writing awards, this real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction. Detective stories of the Twenties and Thirties have long been stereotyped as...

Bloomsbury presents Gallows Court by Martin Edwards, read by Helen MacFarlane. ‘A true master of British crime writing’ RICHARD OSMAN A superb Golden Age mystery packed with twists, from the winner of the Diamond Dagger 2020 LONDON, 1930 The night is sooty, sulphurous, and malign. A spate of...

The streets of London have been home to many great detectives since the days of Sherlock Holmes and Watson, with some of the best authors in the genre taking to the short story form to pit their sleuths against crimes ranging from murders on the Tube to heists from the capital's finest jewellers.

Impossible crime stories have delighted people since the invention of detective fiction as puzzle-lovers sought more cerebral entertainment. Following on from Miraculous Mysteries, Martin Edwards brings together a whole new casebook of mystifying locked room mysteries and impossible crimes.

A cold case of poisonings heats up at a quaint guest house. A string of suspicious murders follows a crime writer’s tour bus. Two seedy stowaways uncover an infamous smuggling ring.