'A true master of British crime writing.' RICHARD OSMAN'All the entertainment you'll need this Christmas. Wonderful stuff.' IAN MOORE'A delight from the first page to the last.' DAILY MAILCan you find the clues and solve the murder first?Six people with links to the world of crime writing have been invited to play a game this Christmas by the mysterious Midwinter Trust.Solve t...

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 cosily conventional. Nothing could be further from the truth.The Golden Age of Murder tells for the first time the extraordinary story of British detective fiction between the two Wor...

Don't miss the traditional murder mystery with a delightful twistfrom the King of classic crime, Martin Edwards – MISS WINTER IN THE LIBRARY WITH A KNIFE is available to order now.'A true master of British crime writing'RICHARD OSMANA superb Golden Age mystery packed with twists, from the winner of the Diamond Dagger 2020LONDON, 1930The night is sooty, sulphurous, and malign. A spate...

IN MEMORY Harry Devlin Died Suddenly Liverpool Midsummer's Eve No one expects to read their own obituary. Liverpool lawyer Harry Devlin never knew five short lines could be so menacing - someone wants him dead and he's only got seven days to find the killer. When the mutilated corpse of a young woman washes up on Waterloo Beach, Harry wonders if the premature notice of his demise and the discovery of a dead girl might be connected. Now he's only got six days...

Don't miss the traditional murder mystery with a delightful twistfrom the King of classic crime, Martin Edwards – MISS WINTER IN THE LIBRARY WITH A KNIFE is available to order now.'A true master of British crime writing' RICHARD OSMANRachel Savernake investigates a bizarre locked-room puzzle in this delicious Gothic mystery from the winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger.England, 1930. Journalist...

All The Lonely People is the curtain-raiser to a successful nine-book series featuring Liverpool solicitor Harry Devlin. Devlin finds himself number one suspect in a murder case that is far too close to home. The victim is his estranged wife, Liz, who is found murdered in a dingy alleyway. Determined to find her killer and prove his innocence, Harry begins a journey that takes him into the city's underworld and shatters forever his illusions about the woman he loved. Now beautifully presen...

'All about them, happy holiday-makers were strolling and laughing, evidently oblivious of the prevailing perils of their chosen resort.' 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. Everyone needs a break now and then but sometimes getting away from it all can be murder. Martin Edwards presents a jam-packed travel case of 18 mysteries, featuring short sto...

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 TimesIn the first major history of crime fiction in fifty years, The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their C...

Don't miss the traditional murder mystery with a delightful twistfrom the King of classic crime, Martin Edwards – MISS WINTER IN THE LIBRARY WITH A KNIFE is available to order now.'A true master of British crime writing' RICHARD OSMANENGLAND, 1930. Grieving widows are a familiar sight on London's Necropolis Railway. So when an elegant young woman in a black veil boards the funeral train, nobody guesses her true pur...

When Liverpool solicitor Harry Devlin watches fire destroy the studio of his client, tattooist Finbar Rogan, he suspects it is no accident. And when a bomb is planted under Finbar's car, Harry is left in no doubt. Someone hates Finbar enough to want him dead. Meanwhile, another client is provoking Devlin's curiosity. Why should Rosemary Graham-Brown and her husband suddenly be so anxious to leave their luxurious home and emigrate to Spain? After a brutal murder occurs, the two puzzles beco...

Lawyer-turned-writer Nic Gabriel is stunned when womanising Dylan Rees, his host at a champagne reception at the Houses of Parliament, is knifed by an ex-girlfriend and bleeds to death in front of him. It's not just the horrific murder, but the fact that the ex, Ella, had apparently committed suicide over five years ago. Before the party Dylan had made cryptic mention of strange and sudden deaths and now, with his friend's death, Nic is determined to discover his meaning. His research take...

When Liverpool solicitor and detective Harry Devlin takes on a client who has been taping his wife's telephone conversations with her lover, he gets more than he bargained for. The first mystery is the identity of Becky's boyfriend, whose voice Harry finds oddly familiar. Then, as a case of adultery slides frighteningly into conspiracy to murder, a trespasser makes a shocking discovery: three dead bodies in a converted church. Who are they? Who has killed them, and why? Trapped in a maze w...