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  1. Martin Edwards is series consultant for British Library Crime Classics. He is an award-winning crime writer; Chair of the Crime Writers Association and President of the Detection Club. The Golden Age of Murder, his study of the Detection Club, was published in 2015 to international acclaim, and won the Edgar, Agatha, H.R.F. Keating and Macavity awards for the years best book about the genre.

    • Baroness Orczy, Selwyn Jepson, Donald Stuart
  2. Martin Edwards is an award-winning crime writer best known for two series of novels set in Liverpool and the Lake District. He is series consultant for British Library Crime Classics and the editor of five previous anthologies in the series, as well as being Vice Chair of the Crime Writers' Association, and President of the Detection Club.

    • Martin Edwards
  3. The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books (Paperback Edition) £5.50 £14.99. The main aim of detective stories is to entertain, but the best cast a light on human behaviour, and display both literary ambition and accomplishment. Even unpretentious detective stories, written for unashamedly commercial reasons, can give us clues to the past, and ...

  4. For book lovers. The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world’s greatest libraries. We hold over 13 million books, 920,000 journal and newspaper titles, 57 million patents and 3 million sound recordings. We are open to everyone.

  5. An excellent addition to the British Library's impressive series of crime classics. --Shiny New Books Capital Crimes, a new collection from the British Library, brings together 17 classic crime shorts with a London setting, and offers a good mix of the well-known and the obscure ... A very persuasive collection covering all the sub-genres of ...

  6. E.C.R. Lorac was a pen name of Edith Caroline Rivett (1894-1958) who was a prolific writer of crime fiction from the 1930s to the 1950s, and a member of the prestigious Detection Club. Her books have been almost entirely neglected since her death, but deserve rediscovery as fine examples of classic British crime fiction in its golden age.

    • E. C. R. Lorac
  7. Books shelved as british-library-crime-classics: Mystery in White by J. Jefferson Farjeon, The Cornish Coast Murder by John Bude, Murder Underground by M...

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