Martin Edwards writes crime fiction as well as nonfiction about the history of detective writing. His Lake District Mysteries begin with The Coffin Trail, pairing historian Daniel Kind with detective Hannah Scarlett in cases shaped by landscape, local history and old secrets. He also created the Harry Devlin series set in Liverpool. In nonfiction, The Golden Age of Murder traces the Detection Club and writers such as Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Anthony Berkeley, while The Life of Crime offers a broader history of crime fiction. Edwards’s own mysteries are traditional but character-led, and his criticism is accessible rather than narrowly academic. The Golden Age of Murder is the clearest nonfiction entry point for readers curious about Christie, Sayers and the Detection Club, while the Lake District books show Edwards practising the genre himself. Read more Less
