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"Vintage Crimes, a CWA anthology with a difference, celebrating members’ work over the years. "
Synopsis
Vintage Crimes will be a CWA anthology with a difference, celebrating members’ work over the years.
The book will gather stories from the mid 1950s until the twenty-first century by great names of the past, great names of the present together with a few hidden treasures by less familiar writers.
The first CWA anthology, Butcher’s Dozen,appeared in 1956,and was co-edited by Julian Symons, Michael Gilbert,and Josephine Bell.
The anthology has been edited by Martin Edwards since 1996,and has yielded many award winning and nominated stories in the UK and overseas.
This new edition includes an array of incredible and award-winning authors: Robert Barnard, Simon Brett, Liza Cody, Mat Coward, John Dickson Carr, Marjorie Eccles, Martin Edwards, Kate Ellis, Anthea Fraser, Celia Fremlin, Frances Fyfield, Michael Gilbert, Paula Gosling, Lesley Grant-Adamson, HRF Keating, Bill Knox, Peter Lovesey, Mick Herron, Michael Z. Lewin, Susan Moody, Julian Symons and Andrew Taylor.
My Review
As a huge fan of crime fiction I love gathered anthologies like this. The chance to delve into stories by authors you love or find new hidden gems or sometimes classic tales you have missed before.
Vintage Crime is a wonderful collection of short crime/murder-mystery tales, gathered from a huge variety of authors over the years.
One of my favourite things about collections like this is that you never know where you will end up the UK or Egypt, America or further afield.
The crimes within are a wonderful mix of classic "who done its?" to more laden mysteries
Of course there are some stories within the pages that peek your interest more than others but I found each and every one had merit and the whole read was a wonderful crime filled journey!
Author Bio
Martin Edwards (Editor) is the author of eighteen novels, including the Lake District Mysteries,and the Harry Devlin series.
His ground-breaking genre study The Golden Age of Murder has won the Edgar, Agatha,and H.R.F. Keating awards.
He has edited twenty eight crime anthologies, has won the CWA Short Story Daggerand the CWA Margery Allingham Prize,and is series consultant for the British Library’s Crime Classics.
In 2015, he was elected eighth President of the Detection Club, an office previously held by G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie,and DorothyL. Sayers.
The CWA (Crime Writers' Association) was founded in 1953 by John Creasey,and organises the prestigious CWA Dagger Awards which celebrate the best in crime writing. The CWA is a pro-active, thriving and ever-expanding community of writers based in the UK but with areach that extends worldwide.
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Thank you to the Publisher and Author for sending me an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) of this novel and for the opportunity to review these works.
All reviews are my own unbiased opinion.