Poisoned pen biography of martin

British crime novelist, critic and solicitor (born 1955)

Kenneth Martin Edwards (born 7 July 1955) is a British crime novelist, whose work has won multiple awards including lifetime achievement awards for his fiction, non-fiction, short fiction, and scholarship in the UK and the United States.

He is President of the Detection Club, consultant to the British Library's Crime Classics, and former Chair of the CWA. His contemporary.

Kenneth Martin Edwards (born 7 July ) is a British crime novelist, whose work has won multiple awards including lifetime achievement awards.

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Martin Edwards is the recipient of the CWA Diamond Dagger, the highest honour in UK crime writing.

Just as he does in the various short story collections he has edited for Poisoned Pen Press, Martin Edwards demonstrates wide knowledge of the world of classic.

In addition to translations into various European languages, his books have been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese. As a crime fiction critic^[1] and historian, and also in his career as a solicitor, he has written non-fiction books and many articles.

He is the current President of the Detection Club and in 2020 was awarded the Crime Writers' Association's Diamond Dagger, the highest honour in British crime writing, in recognition of the "sustained excellence" of his work in the genre.^[2]

Biography

Martin Edwards was born in Knutsford and educated in Cheshire (at Sir John Deane's Grammar School, where one of his teache