He is the son of Professor
Robert Dudley Edwards and brother to the Irish writer,
Ruth Dudley Edwards. He is the general editor of the Oxford
Sherlock Holmes series, and is a recognised expert on Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle,
P. G. Wodehouse and
Oscar Wilde. Dudley Edwards attended
Belvedere College, Dublin,
University College Dublin, and
Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore. In 1966 he married Barbara Balbirnie Lee. They have three children. ==Selected bibliography==