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Maxim Jakubowski is a London-based novelist and editor. He was born in the UK and educated in France. He worked for many years in publishing in editorial director positions for Virgin, the Thomson Organisation, Penguin and Ebury Press before opening the world-famous Murder One bookshop in 1988.

He has written on and reviewed crime for Time Out, The Guardian, the Times, the Daily Telegraph and The Bookseller, amongst other publications, and is a regular broadcaster on radio and TV, and lectures on both crime and mystery fiction, and erotica. He also runs CRIME SCENE, London's annual crime film and literature festival, and is an adviser to the International Mystery Film Festival.

His collection 100 GREAT DETECTIVES won the Anthony Award, and for the past 7 years he has been editing an annual anthology BEST BRITISH MYSTERIES, stories from which have won the CWA (Crime Writers Association) Short Story Award on several occasions. In addition, he is also recognised as one of the leading authorities on erotica and has been editing the MAMMOTH BOOK OF EROTICA for 14 years, sales of which have now reached over 700,000 copies.

His fiction has seen him acclaimed as 'The King of the Erotic Thriller' and he is translated into many foreign languages.