Sara Woods

Lana Hutton Bowen-Judd (7 March 1922 – 6 November 1985) was a British mystery writer, better known under her pseudonym Sara Woods, but using also the pen names of Anne Burton, Mary Challis, and Margaret Leek.

During World War II, Woods worked in a bank and as a solicitor's clerk in London, where she gained much of the information later used in her novels.

As Eileen B Hutton she married Anthony George Bowen-Judd on 25 April 1946, and with him ran a pig breeding farm from 1948 to 1954.

In 1961 she wrote her first novel, Bloody Instructions, introducing the hero of forty-nine of her mysteries, Antony Maitland, an English barrister.

She was also instrumental in forming Crime Writers of Canada, serving on its first executive committee.