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Anne Hocking

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Anne Hocking
BornNaomi Annie Hocking[1]
1889
Thornton Heath, Surrey, England[2]
Died17 March 1966
Reading, Berkshire, England
OccupationNovelist
GenreMurder mystery, Crime fiction

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

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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.[3] She married secondly, in 1918, to Henry R. Messer.[4] She died at Battle Hospital in Reading, Berkshire in 1966.[3]

Bibliography

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Chief Superintendent William Austen Series

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  • Old Mrs. Fitzgerald (1939). Serialised Weekly, Sunday Post (1939)
  • The Wicked Flee (1940)
  • Miss Milverton (1941) AKA Poison is a Bitter Brew (Doubleday 1942)
  • One Shall Be Taken (1942)
  • Nile Green AKA Death Loves a Shining Mark (1943)
  • Six Green Bottles (1943)
  • The Vultures Gather (1945)
  • Death at the Wedding (1946)
  • Prussian Blue (1947) AKA The Finishing Touch (Doubleday 1947)
  • At "The Cedars" (1949)
  • Death Disturbs Mr. Jefferson (1950)
  • Mediterranean Murder AKA Killing Kin (1951)
  • The Best Laid Plans (1952) (Doubleday 1950)
  • There's Death in the Cup (1952)
  • Death Among The Tulips (1953)
  • The Evil That Men Do (1953)
  • And No One Wept (1954)
  • Poison in Paradise (1955)
  • A Reason for Murder (1955)
  • Murder at Mid-Day (1956)
  • Relative Murder (1957)
  • The Simple Way of Poison (1957)
  • Epitaph for a Nurse AKA A Victim Must Be Found (1958)
  • Poisoned Chalice (1959)
  • To Cease Upon the Midnight (1959)
  • The Thin-Spun Life (1960)
  • Candidates for Murder (1961)
  • He Had to Die (1962)
  • Murder Cries Out (1968) (Finished by Evelyn Healey)

Other Crime Novels

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  • Cat's Paw (1933)
  • Death Duel (1933)
  • Walk Into My Parlour (1934)
  • The Hunt is Up (1934)
  • Without the Option (1935)
  • Stranglehold (1936)
  • The House of En-dor (1936)
  • As I Was Going to St. Ives (1937)
  • What a Tangled Web (1937)
  • Ill Deeds Done (1938)
  • The Little Victims Play (1938)
  • So Many Doors (1939)
  • Deadly is the Evil Tongue (1940)
  • Night's Candles (1941)

Crime Novels, signed by "Mona Messer"

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  • A Castle for Sale (1930)
  • Mouse Trap (1931)

Non Crime Novels, signed by "Mona Messer"

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  • Eternal Compromise (1932)
  • A Dinner of Herbs (1933)
  • The End of the Lane (1933)
  • Playing Providence (1934)
  • Wife of Richard (1934)
  • Cuckoo’s Brood (1935)
  • Life Owes Me Something (1936)
  • Tomorrow Also (1937)
  • Marriage is Like That (1938)
  • Stranger’s Vineyard (1939)
  • The Gift of a Daughter (1940)

References

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  • John M. Reilly, Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers, 2e édition, New York, St. Martin’s Press, 2007, p. 460-461.
  • Jacques Baudou et Jean-Jacques Schleret, Le Vrai Visage du Masque, Volume 1, Paris, Futuropolis, 1984, p. 243.
  • Anne Martinetti, Le Masque. Histoire d'une collection, Paris, Éditions Encrage, 1997, p. 77.
  • Alan M. Kent, Pulp Methodism: The Lives & Literature of Silas, Joseph & Salome Hocking, Cornwall, Cornish Hillside Publications, 2002, chapter 6.

Notes

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  1. ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
  2. ^ 1891 England Census
  3. ^ a b England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995
  4. ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915
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