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Martin Edwards’ latest novel, Gallows Court, was published in September. He is consultant to the British Library’s Crime Classics series, and has written sixteen contemporary whodunits, including The Coffin Trail, which was shortlisted for the Theakston’s Prize for best crime novel of the year. His genre study The Golden Age of Murder won the Edgar, Agatha, H.R.F. Keating and Macavity awards, while The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books has been nominated for two awards in the UK and three in the US. Editor of 38 anthologies, he has also won the CWA Short Story Dagger and the CWA Margery Allingham Prize, and been nominated for an Anthony, the CWA Dagger in the Library, the CWA John Creasey Memorial Dagger, and a CWA Gold Dagger. He is Pres ...more

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I was so sorry to learn yesterday of the death of Jill Paton Walsh. Jill was an accomplished author in several fields and her Knowledge of Angels was famously shortlisted for the Booker Prize having originally been self-published. Detective fiction fans appreciated her short series of novels set in Cambridge and featuring Imogen Quy, and she made a real splash when she completed Dorothy L. Sayers'

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	The Coffin Trail (Lake District Mystery #1) 3.67 avg rating — 1,705 ratings — published 2004 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cipher Garden (Lake District Mystery #2) 3.71 avg rating — 1,015 ratings — published 2005 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Age of Murder 3.91 avg rating — 579 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries by Martin Edwards (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Arthur Conan Doyle, Ralph Plummer 3.70 avg rating — 669 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Arsenic Labyrinth (Lake District Mystery #3) 3.80 avg rating — 864 ratings — published 2007 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hanging Wood (Lake District Mystery #5) 3.75 avg rating — 778 ratings — published 2011 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Serpent Pool (Lake District Mystery, #4) 3.82 avg rating — 806 ratings — published 2010 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gallows Court 3.68 avg rating — 589 ratings — published 2018 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Frozen Shroud (Lake District Mystery, #6) 3.81 avg rating — 775 ratings — published 2013 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries 3.75 avg rating — 437 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“He loved the smell and feel of old books. To hold them was to touch the past.”
― Martin Edwards, The Cipher Garden

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“Readers came and went, only the books stayed forever.”
― Martin Edwards, The Hanging Wood

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“Seldom happier than when I'm on my own, lost in a book.”
― Martin Edwards, The Coffin Trail

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December 2019 Classic Mystery Poll

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Which Classic Mystery would you like to read in December?

Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries by Martin Edwards

8 votes, 36.4%

Mystery in White by J. Jefferson Farjeon

6 votes, 27.3%

The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham

5 votes, 22.7%

The Santa Klaus Murder by Mavis Doriel Hay

3 votes, 13.6%

22 total votes

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