The Golden Age of Murder

2015 book by Martin Edwards

The Golden Age of Murder

Author| Martin Edwards
Published| 2015
Publisher| HarperCollins
Media type| Print
Pages| 528
Awards| Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Works (2016)
ISBN| 978-0-008-10596-9
Website| The Golden Age of Murder

The Golden Age of Murder[1] is a book written by Martin Edwards[2] and published by HarperCollins[3] on 7 May 2015 which later went on to win the Edgar Award for Best Critical / Biographical Work in 2016.[4]

## A history of mystery

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As he explains in the Introduction, when Edwards himself became a published author of mystery fiction he was thrilled to be invited to join The Detection Club, about which he had first learned from the pages of Julian Symons' history of mystery writing Bloody Murder.

Subsequently he was made the club's archivist - only to discover that there were no archives; the club's only known minute-book had disappeared in the Blitz, and its priceless library had been sold off.

Inspired by his deep love of detective fiction, he set out to reconstruct some part of the club's history, of that "... elite but mysterious group of crime writers over which Sayers, Christie and Symons presided for nearly 40 years." In so doing, he discovered that the members themselves and events surrounding them were at least as fascinating as anything they had written about.

## External links

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* As featured on The Guardian

## References

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1. ^ "The Golden Age of Murder". Goodreads. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
2. ^ "Golden Age of Murder". www.martinedwardsbooks.com. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
3. ^ Edwards, Martin. "The Golden Age of Murder - Martin Edwards - Hardcover". HarperCollins US. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
4. ^ Webmaster (April 28, 2016). "MWA Announces the 2016 Edgar® Award Winners". Mystery Writers of America. Archived from the original on December 27, 2023. Retrieved December 27, 2023.

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