Anne Hocking | |
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Born | 1890 London |
Died | 20 March 1966 Wokingham, Berkshire, England |
Occupation | Novelist |
Genre | Murder mystery, Crime fiction |
Mona Naomi Anne Messer Hocking (1890 – 1966) was an English crime writer, best remembered for her detective stories featuring Chief Superintendent William Austen.
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