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
Birmingham
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, England, and then
Newnham College, Cambridge
Newnham College is a women's Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies, members of which included philosopher Henry Sid ...
. She went on to work at the
International African Institute
The International African Institute (IAI) was founded (as the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures - IIALC) in 1926 in London for the study of African languages. Frederick Lugard was the first chairman (1926 to his death in 194 ...
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 ''
The Stage
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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
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