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    Blood & Iron by Les Edwards (GW Books, May 1990, 1-85515-000-X, £12.99, 98pp, hc, pi, cover by Les Edwards)
        Collection of artwork by Les Edwards, with an introduction by Kim Newman and a foreword and linking text by Edwards. Available in the US from Games Workshop Inc. for $29.95.





    Acknowledgments by Martin Edwards (Crippen & Landru, May 2017, 7pp, ph, ss)
        Short story published to recognize Martin Edwards who received the Poirot Award at Malice Domestic 29, May 2017. The story won the inaugural CWA Margery Allingham Prize in 2014 and was supposed to have been published, with other stories, as an ebook by Bloomsbury in 2014 but it appears that the book was never published.


    The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators by Martin Edwards (Collins Crime Club, May 26, 2022, 978-0-00-819242-6, £30.00, 724pp, hc, nf)
        History of crime fiction, tracing the evolution of the genre from the eighteenth century to the present.























    Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club ed. Martin Edwards (Collins Crime Club, September 17, 2020, 978-0-00-838013-7, £25.00, 522pp, hc, oa)
        Anthology of essays on writing detective/mystery/crime fiction by members of The Detection Club, with brief introductions to each by Martin Edwards.
    Details provided by Terry Zobeck.
    • xiii · Premise
    • xiii · Introduction · Martin Edwards · in
    • 1 · Motives
    • 1 · The Value of Detective Fiction · G. K. Chesterton · ex The Speaker June 21 1901
    • 3 · The Art of the Detective Story · R. Austin Freeman · ar The Nineteenth Century and After May 1924
    • 9 · Why Crime Fiction Is Good for You · Ian Rankin · ar
      revised and updated from a British Council lecture given in Japan in 1999.
    • 18 · Why Do It? · James Runcie · ar
    • 22 · The Moral Compass of the Crime Novel · Frances Fyfield · ar
    • 25 · Beginning
    • 25 · Motivation · Peter James · ar
    • 30 · Getting Started · Janet Laurence · ar
    • 34 · Finding Ideas · Freeman Wills Crofts · ex from “The Writing of a Detective Novel”, The Authors, Playwrights, and Composers Handbook for 1935 ed. D. Kilham Roberts, John Lane, 1935
    • 36 · Sources of Inspiration · Nicholas Blake · ex from “Introduction”, The Nicholas Blake Omnibus by Nicholas Blake, Collins, 1966
    • 38 · Making Choices · Anthea Fraser · ar
    • 43 · Putting Murder on the Page · Ann Granger · ar
    • 47 · Intensity in Crime Writing · Natasha Cooper · ar
    • 51 · Openings · John Harvey · ar; revised from Harvey’s blog.
    • 55 · “Something Should Happen Now”: Narrative Hooks · Peter Robinson · ar
    • 64 · People
    • 64 · Character from Suspense · Mark Billingham · ar
    • 68 · Cops and Criminals, Contrast and Comedy · Bill James · ar
    • 71 · Making Characters Believable · Marjorie Eccles · ar
    • 77 · Characters, Relationships, and Settings · June Thomson · ar
    • 82 · Places
    • 82 · On the Suffolk Coast · P. D. James · ex from Time to Be Earnest, Faber and Faber, 1999
    • 83 · Human Geography · Ann Cleeves · ar
    • 89 · Setting Stories in Unfamiliar Places · Michael Ridpath · ar
    • 98 · M.O.
    • 98 · Let the Story Be the Driver · Val McDermid · ar
    • 102 · Style · Lindsey Davis · ar
    • 108 · Choosing a Theme · Kate Charles · ar
    • 111 · Pace · Michael Jecks · ar
    • 118 · Writing Scenes · William Ryan · ar
    • 125 · Dialogue, Rhythm, and Keeping to the Point · Margery Allingham · ex from “Dialogue”, Mystery Writer’s Handbook 1958
    • 127 · Listening and Dialogue · Patricia Moyes · ex from “Mysteries Within Mysteries”, Writing Suspense and Mystery Fiction ed. A. S. Burack, The Writer, Inc., 1977
    • 129 · Writing Dialogue · Cynthia Harrod-Eagles · ar
    • 137 · Perspectives
    • 137 · Getting a Perspective · Aline Templeton · ar
    • 141 · What on Earth Is It Like to Be You · Liza Cody · ar
    • 148 · Plots
    • 148 · Plots · Agatha Christie · ex from An Autobiography, Collins, 1977
    • 150 · Logic and Working Backgrounds · J. J. Connington · ex from Alias J.J. Connington, as by A. W. Stewart, Hollis & Carter, 1947, as by A. W. Stewart
    • 154 · All Will Be Revealed · Mary Kelly · ms 1961
      quotation from a newspaper interview conducted by William Saltmarsh.
    • 155 · Structuring a Plot · Kate Ellis · ar
    • 162 · Voyages of Discovery · Eric Ambler · ex from “Voyages and Shipwrecks”, Whodunit? ed. H. R. F. Keating, Windward, 1982
    • 165 · How to Change Your Murderer · Andrew Taylor · ar
    • 175 · Detectives
    • 175 · Amateur Detective or Professional · Priscilla Masters · ar
    • 181 · Believable Amateurs · Susan Moody · ar
    • 185 · Private Eyes · Michael Z. Lewin · ar
    • 194 · Research
    • 194 · Getting It Right · Ngaio Marsh · ex from Black Beech and Honeydew, HarperCollins, 1965
    • 196 · Keeping Up to Date · Desmond Bagley · ex from “Modern Backgrounds for Today’s Novels”, The Writer #10, October 1979
    • 201 · Amateurs and Expertise · John Malcolm · ar
    • 208 · Detection
    • 208 · Detective Stories and Virtuosity · Edmund Crispin · ex from “Introduction”, Best Detective Stories ed. Edmund Crispin, Faber and Faber, 1959
    • 211 · Rules and Prejudices · John Dickson Carr · ex from “The Grandest Game in the World”, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1963
    • 213 · Classic Ingredients · Christianna Brand · ex from “The Detective Story Form”, Press and Freelance Writer and Photographer August 1950
    • 214 · Clues · Michael Innes · ex from Myself and Michael Innes, as by J. I. M. Stewart, Gollancz, September 1987, as by J. I. M. Stewart
    • 217 · Snakes and Ladders · Catherine Aird · ar
    • 222 · Optimal Subterfuge · Sophie Hannah · ar
    • 226 · Suspense
    • 226 · Suspense · Robert Goddard · ar
    • 232 · The Face in the Mirror · Julian Symons · ex Crime in Good Company by Michael Gilbert, Constable, 1959
    • 237 · The Suspense Novel · Jessica Mann · ex Whodunit? ed. H. R. F. Keating, Windward, 1982
    • 243 · The Hours Before Dawn · Celia Fremlin · pr
    • 249 · Action
    • 249 · Inspiration, Perspiration, Realization · Lionel Davidson · ex from “Perspiration, a Constant Factor”, Whodunit? ed. H. R. F. Keating, Windward, 1982
    • 250 · Adventure Fiction · Tom Harper · ar
    • 256 · Writing Action Scenes · Felix Francis · ar
    • 265 · Filling the Gaps · Michael Gilbert · ex from “The Moment of Violence”, Crime in Good Company by Michael Gilbert, Constable, 1959
    • 268 · Constructing a Thriller · Michael Hartland · ar
    • 278 · The Cold War, Then and Now · Mick Herron · ar
    • 286 · History
    • 286 · A Laying on of Hands · Michael Pearce · ar
    • 288 · The Christmas Tree Theory of Historical Research · Imogen Robertson · ar
    • 295 · Historical Dialogue · L. C. Tyler · ar
    • 304 · Humour
    • 304 · Humour and Human Nature · Alexander McCall Smith · ar
    • 306 · Characters and Caricature · Robert Barnard · ex from “Growing Up to Crime”, Colloquium on Crime ed. Robin W. Winks, Scribner, 1986
    • 308 · Humour and Satire · Ruth Dudley Edwards · ar
    • 318 · In Short
    • 318 · Let’s Pretend · Roy Vickers · ex from “Introduction”, Some Like Them Dead ed. Roy Vickers, Hodder, 1960
    • 320 · Switch-overs in Short Stories · H. R. F. Keating · ex from Writing Crime Fiction, Second Edition, A & C Black, 1994
    • 323 · Fiction and Fact
    • 323 · Fictionalizing Characters and Crimes from Real Life · Peter Lovesey · ar
    • 333 · Trial and Error · Anthony Berkeley · ex from “Foreword”, Penguin, 1947
    • 340 · Partners in Crime
    • 340 · Collaborative Writing · Dorothy L. Sayers · ex from The Letters of Dorothy Sayers 1899-1936, St. Martin’s, 1996
    • 348 · Adapting
    • 348 · Writing for Radio · Alison Joseph · ar
    • 356 · Adaptability · Simon Brett · ar
    • 364 · Challenges
    • 364 · Impostor Syndrome · Martyn Waites · ar
    • 369 · Writing: A Painful Pleasure · Suzette A. Hill · ar
    • 374 · Writer’s Block · David Stuart Davies · ar
    • 377 · Improvising · Stella Duffy · ar
    • 386 · Ending
    • 386 · The End of the Beginning · Laura Wilson · ar
    • 392 · In My End · Joanna Hines · ar
    • 399 · Publishing
    • 399 · The Changing Face of Publishing · David Roberts · ar
    • 403 · What Editors Want · Antonia Hodgson · ar
    • 413 · Traditional Versus Self-Publishing · Russell James · ar
    • 419 · One Thing Leads to Another · Jill Paton Walsh · ar The Guardian October 24 2010, as “Once in a Life”; revised and updated.
    • 429 · Writing Lives
    • 429 · The Writing Process · Reginald Hill · ex from “Looking for a Program”, Colloquium on Crime ed. Robin W. Winks, Scribner, 1986
    • 433 · Keeping Track · Paula Gosling · ar
      revised from Philadelphia Bouchercon booklet essay “Killing People for Fun and Profit” (1998).
    • 435 · Reading for Pleasure · Jonathan Gash · ar British Medical Journal July 26 1980, as “A Random Bias”; revised.
    • 439 · Don’t Give Up the Day Job · Janet Neel · ar
    • 442 · Writing to Relax · Bertie Denham · ar
    • 444 · Social Media and the Death of Nancy · Elly Griffiths · ar
    • 450 · The Joy of Writing · John le Carré · ex from The Pigeon Tunnel, Viking, 2016
    • 452 · Different Books; Different Problems; Different Solutions · Len Deighton · ar
    • 465 · The Contributors: Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg
    • 489 · The Detection Club: Presidents · [uncredited] · ms
    • 490 · The Detection Club: Members · [uncredited] · ms
    • 503 · Index of Authors · [uncredited] · ix
    • 515 · Subject Index · [uncredited] · ix








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