Hazel Holt (nee Young, 3 September 1928 – 23 November 2015) was a British novelist. She studied at King Edward VI High School for Girls in

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, England, and then

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. She went on to work at the

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in London, where she became acquainted with the novelist

Barbara Pym Barbara Mary Crampton Pym FRSL (2 June 1913 – 11 January 1980) was an English novelist. In the 1950s she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are ''Excellent Women'' (1952) and '' A Glass of Blessings'' (1958). In 1977 ...

, whose biography she later wrote. She also finished one of Pym's novels after Pym died. Holt has published ''My Dear Charlotte'', 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 ''

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'' for some years.''Encyclopedia.com
/ref>'' She married Geoffrey Louis Holt (1924-2010) in 1951; their son is novelist

Tom Holt Thomas Charles Louis Holt (born 13 September 1961) is a British novelist. In addition to fiction published under his own name, he writes fantasy under the pseudonym K. J. Parker. Biography Holt was born in London, the son of novelist Hazel H ...

Bibliography

* '' A Lot To Ask: A Life of Barbara Pym'' (1990) * ''My Dear Charlotte'' (2010)

Sheila Malory

# ''Gone Away'' S title ''Mrs Malory Investigates''(1989) # ''The Cruellest Month'' (1991) # ''The Shortest Journey'' (1992) # ''An Uncertain Death'' (1993) # ''Murder on Campus'' (1994) # ''Superfluous Death'' (1995) # ''Death of a Dean'' (1996) # ''The Only Good Lawyer...'' (1997) # ''Dead and Buried'' (1998) # ''Fatal Legacy'' (1999) # ''Lilies That Fester'' (2000) # ''Leonora'' (2002) # ''Delay of Execution'' (2001) # ''Death in Practice'' (2003) # ''The Silent Killer'' (2004) # ''No Cure for Death'' (2005) # ''Death in the Family'' (2006) # ''A Time to Die'' (2008) # ''Mrs. Malory and Any Man's Death'' (2009) # ''Mrs. Malory and a Necessary End'' (2012) # ''Death is a Word'' (2014)

References

External links

Hazel Holt at Fantastic Fiction
1928 births 2015 deaths Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge 20th-century English novelists 21st-century English novelists 20th-century English women writers 21st-century English women writers English women novelists English biographers English mystery writers Women mystery writers Writers of historical mysteries Women historical novelists English women non-fiction writers Women biographers {{England-novelist-stub