Martin Edwards is a multi award winning crime novelist as well as the President of of the Detection Club, archivist of the Crime Writers’ Association and series consultant to the British Library’s highly successful series of crime classics, and therefore uniquely qualified to write this book. The Life of Crime is the first major history of Crime fiction in half a century. I am reviewing a copy of The Life of Crime through Harper 360, Collins Crime Club and Netgalley: All opinions are my ownĭetecting the History of Mysteries and their Creatorsīiographies & Memoirs | Nonfiction (Adult) Many thanks to NetGalley and Harper 360 for this title. Readers will leave having enjoyed reading about their favorites they will also have many new authors to add to their TBR piles. Either way, this is a wonderful resource. Read in historical order or just go where your impulse takes you. I am in awe of all that he has taken on in this book, furthermore he has performed his task most ably.įans of mystery fiction who wold like to know more about their favorite genre will find much to explore here. Moving forward readers find chapters with intriguing titles like Guilty Secrets, Treacherous Impulses, The Mistress of Deception ( I bet you know who that is), Locked Rooms, Sensation in Court, Daggers of the Mind, A Suitable Job for a Woman and many more. In these pages, Edwards writes about the history of crime novels. This book, that is almost 600 pages long, has to be one of his most ambitious yet. Martin Edwards has written both his own novels and non-fiction titles about crime and mystery.
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