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, whose biography she later wrote. She also finished one of Pym's novels after Pym died. Holt wrote ''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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/ref>'' She married Geoffrey Louis Holt (1924-2010) in 1951; their son is novelist Tom Holt.

Bibliography

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

Sheila Malory

# ''Gone Away''

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(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 FictionHazel Holt at Find A Grave
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 British women mystery writers Writers of historical mysteries British women historical novelists English women non-fiction writers British women biographers {{England-novelist-stub