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This Deadly Isle charts corpses countrywide, from the Home Counties to the Hebrides, all painstakingly documented in a map redolent of the era. Written and researched by crime novelist, critic and historian Martin Edwards, This Deadly Isle reveals the variety of settings into which the genre was adapted and the vast number of stories written, many of them still little known.

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"""These magnificently designed fold-out maps provide unique and whimsical ways to explore dozens of locations around the world."" -- The New York Times"

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Martin Edwards is the author of 21 novels, including the Lake District Mysteries and the Rachel Savernake series. He has received a dozen awards, including the CWA Diamond Dagger, the highest honour in UK crime writing, and the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar award. He is President of the Detection Club and author of a history of the genre, The Life Of Crime. Fiction, reality and the otherworldly co-exist in Herb Lester's universe. Since 2010, our illustrated maps have documented the distinctive in the world's great cities as well as charting locations associated with literature, rock'n'roll, the occult and wider pop culture. Increasingly untethered to the real world, our range of notepads from fictional hotels make ideal souvenirs from places no one can visit.

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