Events From 2016

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.