In 2022 he captained the Balliol College team which became series champions in Christmas University Challenge 2022, the final series hosted by Jeremy Paxman. He has taken part in Criminal Mastermind at two Bouchercon conventions, in 19, and at two CrimeFest conventions, in 20, winning on three occasions and finishing as runner-up once. He is well-known for his expertise on crime fiction and in other fields. In 1988, he married Helena Shanks and they have two children, Jonathan and Catherine. After spending three years with Weightmans as a partner, he is now a consultant.
He qualified as a solicitor in 1980 and joined the firm of Mace & Jones, where he became a partner in 1984, and head of employment law in 1990, becoming chair of the employment law practice in 2011, when the firm merged with Weightmans LLP. Martin Edwards was born in Knutsford and educated in Cheshire (at Sir John Deane's Grammar School, where one of his teachers was Robert Westall, who later became a successful children's author) and at Balliol College, Oxford University, where he took a first-class honours degree in jurisprudence in 1977. He is the current President of the Detection Club and in 2020 was awarded the Crime Writers' Association's Diamond Dagger, the highest honour in British crime writing, in recognition of the "sustained excellence" of his work in the genre. As a crime fiction critic and historian, and also in his career as a solicitor, he has written non-fiction books and many articles. Kenneth Martin Edwards (born 7 July 1955) is a British crime novelist, whose work has won multiple awards in the UK and the United States.
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