Occupation Novelist Name Anne Hocking | Role Writer Movies The Surgeon's Knife | |
Genre Murder mystery, Crime fiction Died 1966, Wokingham, United Kingdom Books The House of En-dor, Without the option, Candidates for murder, The hunt is up, Epitaph for a Nurse | ||
Naomi Annie Hocking Messer (1889 – 17 March 1966), known as Anne Hocking and nicknamed "Mona," was an English crime writer, best remembered for her detective stories featuring Chief Superintendent William Austen.
Life and career
The daughter of Joseph Hocking, niece of Silas Hocking and Salome Hocking and sister of Elizabeth Nisot and Joan Shill, all writers, Anne Hocking was a prolific mystery writer, author of more than 40 genre novels between 1930 and 1962. One of them (1940's The Wicked Flee) was made into a British crime film in 1957.
She was married first, in 1910, to Frederick William Dunlop, who died in August 1914 in Buckinghamshire. She married secondly, in 1918, to Henry R. Messer. She died at Battle Hospital in Reading, Berkshire in 1966.
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