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Also by Martin Edwards:

Metropolitan Mysteries: A Casebook of London's Detectives, December 2025
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Who Killed Father Christmas?, November 2025
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Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife, October 2025
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Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries, August 2025
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The House on Graveyard Lane, September 2024
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The Puzzle of Blackstone Lodge, August 2023
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The Edinburgh Mystery, May 2023
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Murder by the Book, September 2022
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The Life of Crime, June 2022
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A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries, October 2021
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Mortmain Hall, September 2020
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Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries, July 2020
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Gallows Court, September 2019
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Resorting To Murder, June 2015
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The Golden Age Of Murder, May 2015
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The Frozen Shroud, April 2013
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Serpent Pool, February 2010
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The Life of Crime
Martin Edwards

Collins Crime Club
June 2022
On Sale: May 26, 2022
599 pages
ISBN: 0008192421
EAN: 9780008192457
Kindle: B09JB4GV7Q
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Literature and Fiction

The Life of Crime is the result of a lifetime of reading and enjoying all types of crime fiction, old and new, from around the world. In what will surely be regarded as his magnum opus, Martin Edwards has thrown himself undaunted into the breadth and complexity of the genre to write an authoritative – and readable – study of its development and evolution. With crime fiction being read more widely than ever around the world, and with individual authors increasingly the subject of extensive academic study, his expert distillation of more than two centuries of extraordinary books and authors – from the tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann to the novels of Patricia Cornwell – into one coherent history is an extraordinary feat and makes for compelling reading.

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