The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators - Hardcover
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The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators
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 writing.' The Times
In the first major history of crime fiction in fifty years, The Life of Crime: Detecting the...
Martin Edwards has published twenty crime novels, including series set in Liverpool and the Lake District. He has won the CWA Short Story Dagger and CWA Margery Allingham Prize, and his book The Golden Age of Murder won the Edgar, Agatha, Macavity and H.R.F.Keating awards. Martin is consultant for the British Library's Classic Crime series, archivist of the CWA and President of the Detection...
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🏆 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Awards Winner - Critical/Biographical Award|2022 Agatha Awards Finalist - Best Nonfiction Award|2024 Agatha Awards Finalist - Best Nonfiction Award
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