Missing Persons: A Crime Writers' Association Anthology

by Martin Edwards (Editor), Ruth Rendell (Contributor), Ian Rankin (Foreword)

Nowhere to be found / Mat Coward
Flying pigs / Judith Cutler
Miss you nights / Carol Anne Davis
Three's company / Eileen Dewhurst
The search for Otto Wagner / Marjorie Eccles
A stolen life / Martin Edwards
Raffles and Miss Morris / John Hall
The laddie vanishes / Edward D. Hoch
Missing / Bill Kirton
A small problem at the gallery / Janet Laurence
After the Sega / Peter Lewis
Trust me / Phil Lovesey
By the time you read this / Keith Miles
People don't do such things / Ruth Rendell
Coming home / June Thomson
A busy afternoon / Alison White

Genres: Short Stories

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Martin Edwards has been described by Richard Osman as ‘a true master of British crime writing.’ He has published twenty-three novels, which include the eight Lake District Mysteries, one of which was shortlisted for the Theakston’s Prize for best crime novel of the year and four books featuring Rachel Savernake, including the Dagger-nominated Gallows Court and Blackstone Fell, while Gallows Court and Sepulchre Street were shortlisted for the eDunnit award for best crime novel of the year. He is also the author of two multi-award-winning histories of crime fiction, The Life of Crime and The Golden Age of Murder. He has received three Daggers from the Crime Writers’ Association and two Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America and has also been nominated three times for Gold Daggers. In addition to the CWA Diamond Dagger (the highest honour in UK crime writing) he has received four other lifetime achievement awards: for his fiction, short fiction, non-fiction, and scholarship. He is consultant to the British Library’s Crime Classics, a former Chair of the CWA, and since 2015 has been President of the Detection Club.

Reviews

[Stephen Hayes · Rating 3 out of 5]

A mixed b ag of short stories, one of the better ones written by the editor.