Martin Edwards is an author of fiction. Born in Knutsford, he went to a local grammar school in Cheshire. He also attended Balliol College at Oxford University, taking a first-class honors degree in 1977. In 1980 he was qualified to become a solicitor and moved to Liverpool. He then had a successful run in the law field, finding a law practice and eventually publishing.
Books in order publication:
Harry Devlin Books
| All the Lonely People | (1991) | |
| Suspicious Minds | (1992) | |
| I Remember You | (1993) | |
| Yesterday’s Papers | (1994) | |
| Eve of Destruction | (1997) | |
| The Devil in Disguise | (1998) | |
| First Cut is the Deepest | (1999) | |
| Waterloo Sunset | (2008) |
Thane & Moss Books
| The Lazarus Widow (With: Bill Knox) | (1999) |
Lake District Mysteries Books
| The Coffin Trail | (2004) | |
| The Cipher Garden | (2005) | |
| The Arsenic Labyrinth | (2007) | |
| The Serpent Pool | (2010) | |
| The Hanging Wood | (2011) | |
| The Frozen Shroud | (2013) | |
| The Dungeon House | (2015) | |
| The Crooked Shore / The Girl They All Forgot | (2021) |
Rachel Savernake Books
| Gallows Court | (2018) | |
| Mortmain Hall | (2020) | |
| Blackstone Fell | (2022) |
Standalone Novels
Take My Breath Away (2003)
Dancing For The Hangman (2008)
Short Stories/Novellas
Thrumm (2002)
Murder and its Motives (2016)
Strangers in a Pub (2018)
Short Story Collections
Where Do You Find Your Ideas? (2001)
The New Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes (2014)
The Out-Islands: Poems (2021)
Non-Fiction Books
Executive Survival (1988)
Urge to Kill / Motive to Murder (2002)
Catching Killers (2003)
Truly Criminal (2015)
The Golden Age of Murder (2015)
The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books (2017)
Howdunit! (2020)
This Deadly Isle: A Golden Age Mystery Map (2022)
The Life of Crime (2022)
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