14 January – Heatley WI, Oughtrington School, Lymm
Martin will talk about ‘My Life of Crime’.
4-6 March – Essex Book Festival, Park Inn Palace Hotel, Southend
On 5 March, Martin will take part in a panel on The Golden Age of Murder with John Simenon and others, and will chair a panel on international crime writing.
30 March – 2 pm at Newark Library
Martin will talk about “Why Do We Care Whodunit?”
30 March – Retford Library – Victorian Murder Mystery evening
Martin will present “Who Killed George Hargrave?”
20 April – 6.30 pm at Northwich Library
Martin will talk about his life as a crime writer from Northwich.
29 April – 1 May – Malice Domestic, Washington DC
Martin will appear on three panels during the convention.
6 May – 6.30 pm – British Library Eric Ambler evening
Martin, as author of the introductions to three new classic Ambler reprints, will take part in a discussion about this legendary thriller writer
7 May – London Library 175th anniversary
Martin will chair a panel on The Golden Age of Detection with Kate Summerscale, James Runcie, and Simon Brett.
10 May – 2 pm, Alsager Library
Martin will talk about crime fiction
10 May – Wrexham – Victorian Murder Mystery evening
Martin will present “Who Killed George Hargrave?”
14 May – Margery Allingham Society
Martin will be guest speaker at the Society’s dinner to celebrate Allingham.
19-22 May – Crimefest, Bristol
Martin will chair the Forgotten Authors panel.
11 June – Bodies in the Library, British Library
Martin will talk about true crime in Golden Age fiction.
24-26 June – Felixstowe Book Festival
Martin and Rob Davies will discuss the British Library’s Crime Classics.
19-21 August – St Hilda’s Crime and Mystery Week-end
Martin will talk about Golden Age crime.