Hazel Holt, Author Dutton Books $22.95 (194p) ISBN 978-0-525-94150-7
As usual, the charm lies thick as 50-something widow Sheila Malory (Mrs. Malory Wonders Why, 1995, etc.) sheathes her guile in a shell of matronly pleasantry to nab a murderer. Sheila's childhood friend, actor David Beaumont, has fallen on hard...
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Hazel Holt, Author Signet Book $5.99 (246p) ISBN 978-0-451-20002-0
Sheila Malory, amateur sleuth, novelist and critic, is happiest writing in her home outside London and spending time with her family. On one of her occasional trips to the capital, she sees her old college friend Beth, a bestselling author, along...
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Hazel Holt, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (186p) ISBN 978-0-312-05840-1
The death of a decidedly unpleasant librarian in Oxford's New Bodleian stirs Sheila Malory, first met in Mrs. Malory Investigates , to probe the present and her personal past. Sheila's godson Tony, who works at the library, finds Gwen Richmond...
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Hazel Holt, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-03894-6
Writing with originality but staying within the conventions of British whodunits, Holt makes her debut in a witty and oddly poignant story. The narrator is Sheila Mallory, middle-aged and widowed, the brightest among her friends in the almost...
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Hazel Holt, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-24937-5
Well-written and filled with new details about Barbara Pym's private life as well as her published and unpublished writings, this biography by Pym's literary executor is the first complete life of the once-ignored and now widely read British...
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Hazel Holt, Author Plume Books $12 (320p) ISBN 978-0-452-26822-7
This biography by the late Pym's literary executor is the first complete life of the once ignored, now widely read British novelist. Photos. (July)
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Hazel Holt, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (171p) ISBN 978-0-312-08852-1
The constricted society of an English village and the uneasy relationships between its natives and newcomers, especially pretentious weekenders, is carefully and forcefully etched in the return of writer Sheila Malory, seen before in Mrs. Malory...
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Hazel Holt, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-525-93903-0
In her first Dutton hardcover appearance, British widow and author Sheila Malory agrees to an old friend's long-standing request that she teach a course on women writers at Wilmot College, near Bucks County, Pa. Upon arrival, she catches up with her
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Hazel Holt, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (171p) ISBN 978-0-312-11140-3
This slim mystery, a study of the relations between adult children and their parents, rings true in its depiction of the warmth as well as the petty cruelty that exists between generations. In the English village of Taviscombe, writer Sheila Malory,
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Hazel Holt, Author Dutton Books $20.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-525-93932-0
The picturesque English seaside village of Taviscombe, which bustles with small-town activity, proves not only a breeding ground for gossip but the perfect testing ground for Sheila Malory's ability to decode what she hears and overhears in order to
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Hazel Holt, Author Dutton Books $22.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-525-94151-4
Amateur sleuth Sheila Malory returns (after Mrs. Malory and the Death of a Dean, 1996) in an uncharacteristically lackluster eighth outing. Sheila and her grown son, Michael, steel themselves for the annual visit of attorney Graham Percy, an...
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