Martin Edwards is the current president of The Detection Club, a CWA Diamond Dagger winner, and those are just a few clues to the nigh-unsolvable mystery of how much one man has contributed to the genre. With the recent release of his latest non-fiction 'The Life of Crime', just months after his most recent fiction 'Blackstone Fell', there was only one such man we could turn to when it came to questions on the origin of Golden Age Detection, and Blackstone Fell. We speak with Martin about E.C. Bentley's 'Trent's Last Case', the history of Bentley's work in the genre, and then leap the small link to Martin's own latest Rachel Savernake novel, all its conundrums, contortions and creativity.

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