Monday, 7 April 2025

The new edition of The Golden Age of Murder - and Happy Blog News!

 


I'm truly delighted to have received an early copy of the new, 10th anniversary edition of The Golden Age of Murder. This edition is substantially expanded from the original. When I was kindly invited by HarperCollins to produce a second edition, the one condition I laid down was that it needed to offer real value for money even for those who already have the original edition. There is a great deal of new material - over 200 additional books and authors are mentioned - so I think we did manage to achieve this aim. Official publication date is 8 May and copies will be widely available (I hope!) in good bookshops; they can also be pre-ordered here.

I've also had some good news about this blog. Over the past weekend it passed 4.5 million pageviews. There has been a huge surge in numbers since December. Last month alone there were over 180,000 pageviews. I'm not exactly sure what has triggered this upsurge, but I'm quite happy!

And I've also been advised that the blog has just been ranked #9 in an international list of crime fiction blogs, (the Top 80 crime fiction blogs, listed here), which they assess in relation to 'relevance, authority, social media followers and freshness'. Gratifying! 



 


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is it possible that the book will be available at the Malice Domestic Convention?

Cathy Blake said...

Looking forward to the new edition!

Liz Gilbey said...

Congratulations for all achievements in all directions! See - even in the world of crime fiction, the good guys DO win!

Anonymous said...

Congratulations Martin

Martin Edwards said...

Thanks so much, everyone, for your comments. I'm not appearing at Malice this year, so I'm doubtful the book will be on sale there.