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An eclectic collection of original short stories from distinguished members of the CWA
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Martin Edwards
Harry Devlin is playing a dangerous game when he gets involved with the wife of Liverpool’s most ruthless villain. But he has another reason to look over his shoulder after…
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With its fascinating mix of people - rich and poor, British and foreign, worthy and suspicious - London is a city where anything can happen. The possibilities for criminals and…
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Music of the Night is a new anthology of original short stories contributed by Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) members and edited by Martin Edwards, with music as the connecting theme…
The third Harry Devlin mystery set among the streets and people of Liverpool. Solicitor Devlin thinks of Jack-the-Lad Finbar Rogan as more than just a client - he’s also a…
This British Library anthology uncovers the best mysteries set below the surface and atop the waves, including stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, William Hope Hodgson and R. Austin Freeman.
Christmas is a mysterious, as well as magical, time of year. Strange things can happen, and this helps to explain the hallowed tradition of telling ghost stories around the fireside…
This GoReader comes preloaded with 1 audiobook title: A Tale of Two Cities. Designed for the struggling reader, these Timeless Classics will grab a student’s attention from the first page…
The seventh crime novel featuring the Liverpool-based solicitor, Harry Devlin.
Harry Devlin is in trouble. The wife of his best client, Jack Stirrup, has vanished and the police suspect foul play. Stirrup claims she’s still alive, but Harry wonders if…
Harry Devlin is hired by the Kavanaugh Trust to contest the will of their late patron. Charles Kavanaugh has left everything to his new housekeeper, Vera Blackhurst. Then the current…
On Leap Year Day, 1964, a teenager called Carole Jeffries was strangled in a Liverpool park. When a neighbour confessed, the case was closed. Now over 30 years later Ernest…
Oxford historian and TV personality Daniel Kind and his new lover, Miranda, both want to escape to a new life. On impulse they buy Tarn Cottage in Brackdale, an idyllic…
Warren Howe is surprised by a hooded visitor while working in a garden in Old Sawrey, a lovely village in England’s Lake District. Soon Warren is dead - murdered with…
They halted close to the water’s edge. This was their destination. This was the Serpent Pool. And here, six years ago, Bethany Friend’s body had been found. The Lake District’s…
DCI Hannah Scarlett is determined to uncover the truth behind Emily Friend’s mysterious drowning in the Serpent Pool. But Hannah’s distracted by a new sergeant with a troublesome reputation, a…
A notice announcing that Harry Devlin died suddenly on Midsummer’s Eve arrives at the office of his law firm one June day. His partner Jim Crusoe treats the message as…
Death has come twice to Ravenbank, a remote community in England’s Lake District, each time on Hallowe'en. Daniel Kind, a specialist in the history of murder, becomes fascinated by the…
This book tells the story of crime fiction published during the first half of the twentieth century. The diversity of this much-loved genre is breathtaking, and so
This is the first ever collection of classic crime in translation from the golden age of the genre in the 20th century. Many of these stories are exceptionally rare, and…
Talented sportsmen inexplicably go absent without leave, crafty gamblers conspire in the hope of making a killing, and personal rivalries and jealousies come to a head on fields of play……
The detectives in this collection are masters of scientific deduction, whether they are identifying the perpetrator from a single scrap of fabric, or picking out the poison from a sinister…
An anthology of crime from a distinguished selection of British writers. From a fish that can’t help but dispense his own kind of justice to an assassin handling a misogynistic…
When Liverpool solicitor and detective Harry Devlin takes on a client who has been taping his wife's telephone conversations with her lover, he gets more than he bargained for...
Harry Devlin is playing a dangerous game when he gets involved with the wife of Liverpool's most ruthless villain. But he has another reason to look over his shoulder after…
Published by Poisoned Pen Press in association with the British Library –Title page verso.
Written by award-winning crime writer and president of the Detection Club, Martin Edwards, this book tracks the history of classic crime fiction and serves as a companion to the British…
Harry Devlin is in trouble. The wife of his best client, Jack Stirrup, has vanished and the police suspect foul play. Stirrup claims she's still alive, but Harry wonders if…
A Gothic remaking of the classic country house murder mystery.
Martin Edwards introduces neglected gems of British crime writing with these twelve stories, which strike a blow for the professionals with teasing mysteries for police officer protagonists.
A second story of murder and mayhem featuring Liverpool solicitor Harry Devlin, hero of All the Lonely People . The wife of Devlin’s best client, Jack Stirrup, has vanished without…
When Liverpool solicitor Harry Devlin watches fire destroy the studio of his client, tattooist Finbar Rogan, he suspects it is no accident. And when a bomb is planted under Finbar's…
On Leap Year Day in 1964, an attractive teenager called Carole Jeffries was strangled in a Liverpool park. The killing caused a sensation: Carole came from a prominent political family…
Yorkshire, 1630. A man vanishes from a locked gatehouse in a remote village. 300 years later, it happens again. Rachel Savernake investigates a locked-room puzzle in this Gothic mystery.
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Written and researched by crime novelist, critic and historian Martin Edwards, this illustrated map and guide plots 51 real-life locations from the Golden Age Of Detective Fiction. The titans of…
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