Martin Edwards
Author · 48 books
Martin Edwards’ latest novel, Gallows Court, was published in September. He is consultant to the British Library’s Crime Classics series, and has written sixteen contemporary whodunits, including The Coffin Trail, which was shortlisted for the Theakston’s Prize for best crime novel of the year. His genre study The Golden Age of Murder won the Edgar, Agatha, H.R.F. Keating and Macavity awards, while The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books has been nominated for two awards in the UK and three in the US. Editor of 38 anthologies, he has also won the CWA Short Story Dagger and the CWA Margery Allingham Prize, and been nominated for an Anthony, the CWA Dagger in the Library, the CWA John Creasey Memorial Dagger, and a CWA Gold Dagger. He is President of the Detection Club and Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association, and Archivist of both organisations. He has received the Red Herring award for services to the CWA, and the Poirot award for his outstanding contribution to the crime genre.
Series
Books
First Cut Is the Deepest
1999
I Remember You
1993
Red Glory
Manchester United and Me
2017
Many Deadly Returns
2021
Motives for Murder
2016
Suspicious Minds
1992
The Cipher Garden
2005
Deep Waters
Murder on the Waves
2019
I.D.
Crimes of Identity
2006
The Dungeon House
2015
Cosy Crime Short Stories
2019
Waterloo Sunset
2008
Yesterday's Papers
1994
Crimes of Cymru
Classic Mystery Tales of Wales
2023
Hemlock Bay
2024
Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop
2024
The Life of Crime
Unravelling the Mysteries of Fiction’s Favourite Genre
2022
M.O.
Crimes of Practice
2008
All the Lonely People
1991
Eve of Destruction
1997
The Serpent Pool
2010
Music of the Night
from the Crime Writers' Association
2022
The Golden Age of Murder
2015
Urge to Kill
How Police Take Homicide from Case to Court
2002
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures
1997
The Girl They All Forgot
2021
In League with Sherlock Holmes
2020
The New Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
2014
The Frozen Shroud
2013
In a Word
Murder
2013
The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books
2017
The Devil in Disguise
1998
Gallows Court
2018
Howdunit
A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club
2020
Who Killed Father Christmas?
And Other Seasonal Mysteries
2023
The House on Graveyard Lane
2023
The Arsenic Labyrinth
2007
Guilty Consciences
2012
The Puzzle of Blackstone Lodge
2022
Mortmain Hall
2019
The Hanging Wood
2011
Silent Nights
Christmas Mysteries
2015
Take My Breath Away
2003
As If by Magic
Locked Room Mysteries and Other Miraculous Crimes
2025
The Coffin Trail
2004
Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife
2025
The Traitor
2022
Perfectly Criminal
1996
