“Murder By The Book” edited by Martin Edwards (2021)

“Joseph Newton settled himself comfortably in his corner of a first-class compartment on the Cornish Riviera express.”

It might be a new year, dear readers, but there’s still plenty of murders to be solved. This time, Martin Edwards has gathered together some of the short stories from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction that all centre around murders involving novels, authors, publishers, booksellers, and librarians. What’s there for a murder mystery novel lover to take umbrage with?

Many of the...