Vintage Crime

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.

About the author

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 Dagger and the CWA Margery Allingham Prize, and is series consultant for the British Library’s Crime Classics.

My Review

Spanning over fifty years, this collection of crime stories s exceptional. Each one seems to have been specially chosen and delights the reader. This anthology is perfect for dipping into, one or two with a coffee or several at bedtime, the choice is yours. One thing is for sure, these stories will stay with the reader and continue to delight for some considerable time to come. The variety is such that no matter your favourite crime genre; just deserts, a sting in the tail, a shock ending, there is something for everyone. Unusually for an anthology, there wasn't one story that disappointed. A great collection.