Martin Edwards

A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman’s watchful eye. A jewel heist is planned amidst the glitz and glamour of Oxford Street’s Christmas shopping.... 

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....

Twenty years ago, Malcolm Whiteley discovers his attractive wife, Lysette, is having an affair. The Whiteleys are wealthy and live with their 16-year-old daughter, Amber, in Dungeon House....

A real-life detective story, investigating how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction....

Death has come twice to Ravenbank, a remote community in England’s Lake District, each time on Halloween....

In Ravenbank, Hallowe'en is particularly chilling. It is a time for telling the story of the Faceless Woman, her corpse discovered with a makeshift shroud frozen to her battered face....

London, 1930. A headless corpse; an apparent suicide in a locked room; a man burned alive during an illusionist's show in front of thousands of people....