Who Killed Father Christmas edited by Martin Edwards

December 10, 2025

Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Seasonal Mysteries is another collection of Christmas short stories edited by Martin Edwards. It’s part of the British Library Crime Classics. Edwards always manages to inform with the brief biographies of the authors while...

The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books by Martin Edwards

November 25, 2025

I’ll be honest and tell you I haven’t quite finished Martin Edwards’ The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books. I’m close enough to the end, though, that I can discuss this excellent reference book. Edwards, who is President of the Detection...

Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards

October 10, 2025

Don’t trust anyone. That’s the message given to six people who agree to spend the Christmas holidays playing a mystery game at Midwinter, a village in the extreme north of England. It’s also a warning to readers of Martin Edwards’ first...

Playing Dead, edited by Martin Edwards

March 09, 2025

Before I dive into Playing Dead: Short Stories by Members of the Detection Club, I want to mention the cover. This is perfect! The stories in this collection, edited by Martin Edwards, celebrate Simon Brett’s eightieth birthday. As Brett is the author of the...

Death of an Author by E.C.R. Lorac

March 23, 2024

There are other authors from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction that are better known than E.C.R. Lorac, but I enjoy her books with the wit and clever plots. Martin Edwards, who wrote the introduction to Death of an Author, suggests that Lorac had fun with the...