Acknowledgments: Winner of the CWA Margery Allingham Short Story Competition

by Martin Edwards

Overview

Martin Edward's 'Acknowledgments' is the winning story of the Crime Writers' Association Margery Allingham Short Story Competition, 2014. Julia Jones, one of the founders and judges of the competition, called it a 'worthy first winner' and said that Allingham 'would have loved it'.

Bloomsbury Reader is delighted to be publishing this deserving winner alongside two additional short crime stories from Martin Edwards: 'Are You Sitting Comfortably?' and 'Neighbours', as well as his essay on Margery Allingham's short story writing and a foreword by Julia Jones.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781448214686
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	11/20/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	738,745
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Martin Edwards is an award-winning crime writer whose sixth and most recent Lake District Mystery, featuring DCI Hannah Scarlett and Daniel Kind, is The Frozen Shroud. Earlier books in the series are The Coffin Trail (short-listed for the Theakston's prize for best British crime novel of 2006), The Cipher Garden, The Arsenic Labyrinth (short-listed for the Lakeland Book of the Year award), The Serpent Pool and The Hanging Wood.

Martin has written eight novels about lawyer Harry Devlin, the first of which, All the Lonely People, was short-listed for the CWA John Creasey Memorial Dagger for the best first crime novel of the year. In addition he has published a stand-alone novel of psychological suspense, Take My Breath Away, and a much acclaimed novel featuring Dr Crippen, Dancing for the Hangman.

In 2014 he was the inaugural winner of the CWA Margery Allingham Short Story Prize for 'Acknowledgements'.

In his spare time Martin is a partner in a national law firm, Weightmans LLP.