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The Life of Crime Martin Edwards

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The Life of Crime By Martin Edwards

The Life of Crime by Martin Edwards

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Now revised and expanded for its first paperback publication, The Life of Crime was the 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 was shortlisted for both the Agatha and Gold Dagger Awards

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The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators by Martin Edwards

Now revised and expanded for its first paperback publication, The Life of Crime was the 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 was shortlisted for both the Agatha and Gold Dagger Awards

In this groundbreaking history of crime fiction, acclaimed expert Martin Edwards traces the evolution of the genre from the eighteenth century to the present, offering a brand-new perspective on the world's most popular form of storytelling.

The Life of Crime is the result of a lifetime of reading and enjoying all types of mystery fiction from around the world. Martin Edwards has drawn on his experience as an award-winning novelist to capture the breadth and complexity of crime writing, telling the story of the genre's development and evolution in a way that will fascinate and entertain anyone who delights in a good mystery.

With crime fiction being read more widely than ever, The Life of Crime reveals the writers secrets and the ups and downs of their literary lives with insight, compassion and wit. This definitive distillation of more than two centuries of extraordinary books and authors into one coherent history is an extraordinary feat and makes compelling reading.

'Martin Edwards is the closest thing there has been to a philosopher of crime writing' THE TIMES

The Life of Crime Reviews

Magisterial but wickedly entertaining reliably readable and frequently amusing. It also inspires awe: Edwards combines wide reading with a good memory, meticulous control over his unruly material, critical acumen and sheer bloody persistence. ANDREW TAYLOR, THE SPECTATOR

As entertaining and illuminating a history of crime and thriller fiction as Ive ever read. IAN RANKIN

Impressively scholarly and joyfully anecdotal its hard to imagine this book being superseded for many years to come. MORNING STAR

Vastly entertaining [Edwards] plots the development of the genre and the bizarre lives of writers Youll find all your favourites here, from Edgar Allan Poe to PD James But be warned youll end up with a reading list as long as a giants arm. DENIS MANN, DAILY EXPRESS

A magisterial history of mysteries and their creators. THE TIMES

There is plenty here for mystery readers, whether well-versed in the genres history or not and mystery writers will welcome this book as a resource.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

A magisterial work THE LIFE OF CRIME does more than just inform, entertain and provoke, it also sends new readers back to old books.

THE WASHINGTON POST

REVIEWS FOR MARTIN EDWARDS:

Few, if any, books about crime fiction have provided so much information and insight so enthusiastically and, for the reader, so enjoyably THE TIMES

Illuminating and entertaining provides a new way of looking at old favourites. LEN DEIGHTON, author of The Ipcress File

Forensically sharp and exhaustively informed Crime fiction is driven by death. In this superbly compendious and entertaining book, Edwards ensures that dozens of authorial corpses are gloriously reborn. MARK LAWSON, Guardian

About Martin Edwards

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 Club. He has edited 30 anthologies, published about 60 short stories, and written seven other non-fiction books.

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GOR013671760
9780008192440
0008192448
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators by Martin Edwards
Martin Edwards
Used - Very Good
Paperback
HarperCollins Publishers
2024-05-09
736
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