Martin Edwards - The Life Of Crime Detecting The History Of Mysteries And Their Creators - 2022 [EN]

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"The Life of Crime by Martin Edwards" is a Fiction > General Fiction/Classics title in English, distributed as a EPUB file (1.6 MB). Written by Martin Edwards. The book spans approximately 897 pages with 285,499 words. Winner 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 evolution of the genre from the eighteenth century to the present, offering brand-new perspective on the world's most popular form of fiction. Au...

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CategoryBooks

LanguageEnglish (EN)

GenreLanguage Arts, Nonfiction

QualityEPUB

Size1.6 MB

Pages897

ArchivedAug 24, 2026

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THE LIFE OF CRIME Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators Martin Edwards First Collins Crime Club 2022 Revised and expanded 2024 , 2024 Cover design by Steve Leard/HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Martin Edwards asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. Martin Edwards Introduction The Life of Crime tells the story of fiction’s most popular genre. This book traces the development of the crime story from its origins to the present day and also explores events t