The Life of CrimeWinner of four major prizes for the best critical biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H. R. F. Keating Awards; and shortlisted for both the Agatha and Gold Dagger Awards. Martin Edwards is the closest thing there has been to a philosopher of crime writing. The Times In the first major history of crime fiction in fifty years, The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators traces the

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