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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.

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

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


Bibliography



Chief Superintendent William Austen Series



Other Crime Novels



Crime Novels, signed by "Mona Messer"



Non Crime Novels, signed by "Mona Messer"



References



Notes


  1. England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
  2. 1891 England Census
  3. 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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