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HarperCollins Publishers
Martin Edwards
The Life Of Crime: Detecting The History Of Mysteries And Their Creators
N/A
2022
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Publisher > HarperCollins Publishers
Author > Martin Edwards
Title > The Life Of Crime: Detecting The History Of Mysteries And
Their Creators
Issue > N/A
Year > 2022
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ISBN > 9780008192457
Pages > 736
Genre > Language-Arts Nonfiction
Language > English
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Type > RETAIL
Media > BOOK
Format > .epub
Section > eBook
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Published > 2022-05
Release > 2026-08-24
Disks > 01 x 2 MB
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Winner of four major prizes for the best critical biographical book related
to crime fiction the Edgar Anthony Macavity and HRF 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
evolution of the genre from the eighteenth century to the present offering
brandnew perspective on the worlds most popular form of fiction Author
Martin Edwards is a multiawardwinning crime novelist the President of the
Detection Club archivist of the Crime Writers Association and series
consultant to the British Librarys highly successful series of crime
classics and therefore uniquely qualified to write this book He has been a
widely respected genre commentator for more than thirty years winning the
CWA Diamond Dagger for
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