Martin Edwards
@martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
Crime novelist and book hunter, fascinated by detective fiction's heritage as well as its present and future. Latest novel, Hemlock Bay. Diamond Dagger, two Edgar awards, President and archivist of the Detection Club. Do You Write Under Your Own Name? blog
A lovely review!
December! So I've begun the usual Christmas in Books trope - and the first entry is the new book by Martin Edwards, author Miss Winter in the Library with a knife. Great book, and one that would make a great present clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
The snow-bound village…. and a Christmas-y Mystery
We’re into December, so it’s time for the annual Clothes in Books trope of Christmas in Books – seasonal scenes from random books, for no be...
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December 2, 2025 at 9:27 AM
A lovely review!
Thank you 😀
Wasn't thrilled initially by the idea of an interactive book BUT @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social's sucked me in and I loved every minute - and even managed to spot a few clues 😉
Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife is a brilliant Christmas read. Highly recommended!
Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife is a brilliant Christmas read. Highly recommended!
November 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Thank you 😀
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It's a few years old, but the books included in @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social's The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books are even older, so there was no hurry. #BookSky #CrimeFiction tinyurl.com/23pfd8ek
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It's a few years old, but the books included in @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social's The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books are even older, so there was no hurry. #BookSky #CrimeFiction tinyurl.com/23pfd8ek
Delighted to see Miss Winter climbing to #27 in the Amazon UK Kindle bestsellers list
November 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Delighted to see Miss Winter climbing to #27 in the Amazon UK Kindle bestsellers list
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Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife
by @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
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Fancy a twisty Christmas murder mystery challenge?
NORTH YORKSHIRE
(Try your hand at finding the clues - I am not a natural sleuth, I got a terrible result! 😆)
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by @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
www.tripfiction.com/crime-puzzle...
Fancy a twisty Christmas murder mystery challenge?
NORTH YORKSHIRE
(Try your hand at finding the clues - I am not a natural sleuth, I got a terrible result! 😆)
@headofzeus.bsky.social
Crime puzzle set in NORTH YORKSHIRE - TripFiction
Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards, crime puzzle set in North Yorkshire. "The Midwinter Trust requires the pleas of your companies
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November 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife
by @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
www.tripfiction.com/crime-puzzle...
Fancy a twisty Christmas murder mystery challenge?
NORTH YORKSHIRE
(Try your hand at finding the clues - I am not a natural sleuth, I got a terrible result! 😆)
@headofzeus.bsky.social
by @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
www.tripfiction.com/crime-puzzle...
Fancy a twisty Christmas murder mystery challenge?
NORTH YORKSHIRE
(Try your hand at finding the clues - I am not a natural sleuth, I got a terrible result! 😆)
@headofzeus.bsky.social
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Murder in a West End boutique? 🛍️👠 Inspector Charlesworth’s on the case. This month’s Crime Classic, Death in High Heels, dives into fashion, ambition, and fatal secrets.
Available today: shop.bl.uk/products/death-in-high-heels
Ed: @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
Available today: shop.bl.uk/products/death-in-high-heels
Ed: @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Murder in a West End boutique? 🛍️👠 Inspector Charlesworth’s on the case. This month’s Crime Classic, Death in High Heels, dives into fashion, ambition, and fatal secrets.
Available today: shop.bl.uk/products/death-in-high-heels
Ed: @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
Available today: shop.bl.uk/products/death-in-high-heels
Ed: @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
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Me too. There's something so 'different' about them. They're fabulous. I think I'm going to reread Mystery in White this winter.
@martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social has been such a driving force in bringing back these long-lost gems. What a legend!
@martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social has been such a driving force in bringing back these long-lost gems. What a legend!
November 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Me too. There's something so 'different' about them. They're fabulous. I think I'm going to reread Mystery in White this winter.
@martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social has been such a driving force in bringing back these long-lost gems. What a legend!
@martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social has been such a driving force in bringing back these long-lost gems. What a legend!
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Sneak preview just for you of the November Crime Classic! It’s Death in High Heels by Christianna Brand. Featuring a new introduction by @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social, publishing 10/11. Who’s looking forward to this one?
October 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Sneak preview just for you of the November Crime Classic! It’s Death in High Heels by Christianna Brand. Featuring a new introduction by @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social, publishing 10/11. Who’s looking forward to this one?
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I'd forgotten all about this series. VERY shrewd move getting the inimitable @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social to do the intro: A guaranteed wallet-opener right there! 😂
October 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I'd forgotten all about this series. VERY shrewd move getting the inimitable @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social to do the intro: A guaranteed wallet-opener right there! 😂
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Great to get my author copies of Then There Were More, Short Stories from @thecwa.bsky.social edited by @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social I'm looking forward to reading the other stories in this vintage* collection. tinyurl.com/5yeaw2n5
*vintage, me, who'd have thought!
*vintage, me, who'd have thought!
October 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great to get my author copies of Then There Were More, Short Stories from @thecwa.bsky.social edited by @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social I'm looking forward to reading the other stories in this vintage* collection. tinyurl.com/5yeaw2n5
*vintage, me, who'd have thought!
*vintage, me, who'd have thought!
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AS IF BY MAGIC, edited by Martin Edwards
Another wonderful British Library Crime Classics anthology - this time all Locked Room & Howdunit mysteries.
Some great short stories in here, especially a fun one about butlers by Geoffrey Bush.
@martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
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Another wonderful British Library Crime Classics anthology - this time all Locked Room & Howdunit mysteries.
Some great short stories in here, especially a fun one about butlers by Geoffrey Bush.
@martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
@blpublishing.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
AS IF BY MAGIC, edited by Martin Edwards
Another wonderful British Library Crime Classics anthology - this time all Locked Room & Howdunit mysteries.
Some great short stories in here, especially a fun one about butlers by Geoffrey Bush.
@martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
@blpublishing.bsky.social
Another wonderful British Library Crime Classics anthology - this time all Locked Room & Howdunit mysteries.
Some great short stories in here, especially a fun one about butlers by Geoffrey Bush.
@martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
@blpublishing.bsky.social
Much appreciated!
a new @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social went live on Kobo a few hours ago, really looking forward to reading it. It must be a great tribute to his writing that apparently he make it all REAL - at least according to the search categories at kobo 😀 #Mystery #booksky #Reading #Kobo
September 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Much appreciated!
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Happy publication day to @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social for Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife
Classic crime, puzzles, cluefinder, this book was so good!
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#BookSky 💙📚
Classic crime, puzzles, cluefinder, this book was so good!
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#BookSky 💙📚
#BookReview Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards (out 11 September)
Six strangers with connections to the world of crime are invited to Midwinter, a village in Yorkshire, by the Midwinter Trust, to play a mystery game during the Christmas days. The reader (us!) is …
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September 11, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Happy publication day to @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social for Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife
Classic crime, puzzles, cluefinder, this book was so good!
paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/b...
#BookSky 💙📚
Classic crime, puzzles, cluefinder, this book was so good!
paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/b...
#BookSky 💙📚
This really was a lovely project. Glad you enjoyed it.
Re-read THE STARLINGS & OTHER STORIES - a beautiful anthology from the Murder Squad, edited by Ann Cleeves.
Some great mystery/crime stories, all based on atmospheric b&w photos from David Wilson.
Great stuff!
@anncleeves.bsky.social
@martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
Some great mystery/crime stories, all based on atmospheric b&w photos from David Wilson.
Great stuff!
@anncleeves.bsky.social
@martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This really was a lovely project. Glad you enjoyed it.
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Locked room mysteries, confounding puzzles, crimes that happen as if by magic... award-winning crime writer @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social brings together a casebook of mystifying crime fiction, from the Golden Age of Crime.
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/as-...
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/as-...
September 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Locked room mysteries, confounding puzzles, crimes that happen as if by magic... award-winning crime writer @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social brings together a casebook of mystifying crime fiction, from the Golden Age of Crime.
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/as-...
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/as-...
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t's a fun feature. @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social 's Rachel Savernake series include those too, IIRC.
The passage also reminds me of an article I read on Poe & Borges as both detective and cosmic fiction authors. How their affection for logic puzzles spoke to their views on the universe & Divine.
The passage also reminds me of an article I read on Poe & Borges as both detective and cosmic fiction authors. How their affection for logic puzzles spoke to their views on the universe & Divine.
The Moai Island Puzzle dedicates a page to a traditional Challenge to the Reader informing you that you have all the clues needed to solve the case before reading the solution. I like the grandiosity of the closing statement to this passage: "Please bring order to this cosmos with your own hands."
August 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
t's a fun feature. @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social 's Rachel Savernake series include those too, IIRC.
The passage also reminds me of an article I read on Poe & Borges as both detective and cosmic fiction authors. How their affection for logic puzzles spoke to their views on the universe & Divine.
The passage also reminds me of an article I read on Poe & Borges as both detective and cosmic fiction authors. How their affection for logic puzzles spoke to their views on the universe & Divine.
My latest newsletter has just been published: substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Life of Crime
Martin Edwards's newsletter about crime reading, writing, and watching - from the President of the Detection Club
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September 1, 2025 at 10:27 AM
My latest newsletter has just been published: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Clown Town by Mick Herron and six other books feature in our news column this week, with titles by SDW Hamilton, Cat Miller, @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social KJ Whittle, Lou Berney and Katy Farber
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#crimefiction #MYSTERY #thriller
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#crimefiction #MYSTERY #thriller
August 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Clown Town by Mick Herron and six other books feature in our news column this week, with titles by SDW Hamilton, Cat Miller, @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social KJ Whittle, Lou Berney and Katy Farber
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#crimefiction #MYSTERY #thriller
crimefictionlover.com/2025/08/on-t...
#crimefiction #MYSTERY #thriller
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Keeping it light and very engaging today with this set of short stories. Something very satisfying about the short mystery. Guess quickly because it’s over in a flash. Excellent intro by @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social that prompted me to make a list of mysteries new to me to look out for.
August 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Keeping it light and very engaging today with this set of short stories. Something very satisfying about the short mystery. Guess quickly because it’s over in a flash. Excellent intro by @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social that prompted me to make a list of mysteries new to me to look out for.
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Finally back in print thanks to @britishlibrary.bsky.social Crime Classics, with an intro from @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social - the stone cold classic The Judas Window
#BookSky #lockedroom #crimeclassic
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#BookSky #lockedroom #crimeclassic
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The Judas Window (1938) by Carter Dickson
Avory Hume had told his daughter that he was pleased with her engagement to James Answell, but when Answell is summoned to a meeting with Hume in his study, the man’s attitude seems to have changed…
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August 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Finally back in print thanks to @britishlibrary.bsky.social Crime Classics, with an intro from @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social - the stone cold classic The Judas Window
#BookSky #lockedroom #crimeclassic
classicmystery.blog/2025/08/12/t...
#BookSky #lockedroom #crimeclassic
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Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A fun, immersive cosy mystery within a mystery. Get your sleuthing caps on, and try to solve them. 🔎🗡️
See my review on www.goodreads.com/loopykaz
Thanks to @headofzeus.bsky.social and @netgalley.bsky.social for
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Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A fun, immersive cosy mystery within a mystery. Get your sleuthing caps on, and try to solve them. 🔎🗡️
See my review on www.goodreads.com/loopykaz
Thanks to @headofzeus.bsky.social and @netgalley.bsky.social for
(1/2)
August 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A fun, immersive cosy mystery within a mystery. Get your sleuthing caps on, and try to solve them. 🔎🗡️
See my review on www.goodreads.com/loopykaz
Thanks to @headofzeus.bsky.social and @netgalley.bsky.social for
(1/2)
Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A fun, immersive cosy mystery within a mystery. Get your sleuthing caps on, and try to solve them. 🔎🗡️
See my review on www.goodreads.com/loopykaz
Thanks to @headofzeus.bsky.social and @netgalley.bsky.social for
(1/2)
Very much looking forward to the launch of Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife at Serenity Books on 11 September. If you're tempted to come along, here is the info about the event: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/sto...
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August 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Very much looking forward to the launch of Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife at Serenity Books on 11 September. If you're tempted to come along, here is the info about the event: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/sto...
Probably!
Speaking of things that are 99p on Kindle, should I be suspicious of the very much non-British Library versions of ECR Lorac novels that Amazon is trying to punt to me on a daily basis?
August 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Probably!
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I'd be happy to pay SIGNIFICANTLY more than 99p (maybe even a whole pound) for a new book in the series😉
August 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I'd be happy to pay SIGNIFICANTLY more than 99p (maybe even a whole pound) for a new book in the series😉