Martin Edwards
British crime novelist and historian of the genre; President of the Detection Club.
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- Martin Edwards is a British crime novelist, critic and solicitor.
- He is President of the Detection Club, and in 2020 received the Crime Writers' Association's Diamond Dagger.
- His study The Golden Age of Murder covers detective fiction between the two world wars and won an Edgar award.
Key facts
- Born
- 7 July 1955, Knutsford, as Kenneth Martin Edwards1
- Education
- First-class degree in jurisprudence, Balliol College, Oxford (1977)1
- Series
- Harry Devlin, from All the Lonely People (1991); Rachel Savernake, from Gallows Court1
- Law
- Solicitor from 1980; partner at Mace & Jones from 1984; later with Weightmans, now a consultant1
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