Hazel Holt

Hazel Holt (3 September 1928 – 23 November 2015)[1] (born Hazel Young) was a British novelist.

She studied at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham, England, and then Newnham College, Cambridge. She went on to work at the International African Institute in London, where she became acquainted with the novelist Barbara Pym, whose biography she later wrote. She also finished one of Pym's novels after Pym died.[2] Holt has published My Dear Charlotte,[3] a story that uses the actual language of Jane Austen's letters to her sister Cassandra to construct a Regency murder mystery.

Holt wrote her first novel in her sixties, and was a leading crime novelist. She is best known for her Sheila Malory series. She was also a regular contributor to The Stage for some years.[4] She married Geoffrey Louis Holt (1924-2010) in 1951; their son is novelist Tom Holt.

Bibliography

Sheila Malory
  1. Gone Away [US title Mrs Malory Investigates] (1989)
  2. The Cruellest Month (1991)
  3. The Shortest Journey (1992)
  4. An Uncertain Death (1993)
  5. Murder on Campus (1994)
  6. Superfluous Death (1995)
  7. Death of a Dean (1996)
  8. The Only Good Lawyer... (1997)
  9. Dead and Buried (1998)
  10. Fatal Legacy (1999)
  11. Lilies That Fester (2000)
  12. Leonora (2002)
  13. Delay of Execution (2001)
  14. Death in Practice (2003)
  15. The Silent Killer (2004)
  16. No Cure for Death (2005)
  17. Death in the Family (2006)
  18. A Time to Die (2008)
  19. Mrs. Malory and Any Man's Death (2009)
  20. Mrs. Malory and a Necessary End (2012)
  21. Death is a Word (2014)
gollark: I do think it would be good for cities to be split out into somewhat smaller cities with better land prices/traffic/etc, though.
gollark: Entirely anecdotally, I live in [RURAL AREA REDACTED] and don't like it because there is *nothing to do here*. Generally speaking, cities being less city-y would probably reduce productivity a lot which would be bad.
gollark: Hmm, so we need better treatments for age-related mental issues, you mean.
gollark: I mean, if you end up in horrible health in the later bits, yes, but otherwise it seems pretty great.
gollark: ... *seriously*?

References
  1. "HOLT". Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  2. "Toledo Blade - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  3. See the author's blog site: http://hazelholt.coffeetownpress.com
  4. Encyclopedia.com


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