C. Hugh Holman (February 24, 1914 – October 14, 1981) was an American literary scholar, academic administrator and detective novelist.
Clarence Hugh Holman was born on February 24, 1914, in Cross Anchor, Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
[1] He enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1946, and he earned a PhD in American Literature in 1949.
[1] Holman became an Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 1949.
[1] Holman was a member of the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina Press from 1957 to 1973, and its chairman from 1961 to 1973.
[2] It tells the story of Michael Leister, a radio programmer from New York City who is wrongly accused of murdering a faculty member.
[2] His second novel, Trout in the Milk, is about the murder of William T. Sirdar, the owner of a cotton mill, in his mansion.
[2] In this novel, a radio script-writer, also from New York City, works alongside the sheriff to resolve the murder.
[2] Called Small Town Corpse, it is about sheriff John McNarly's investigation into a murder disguised as a suicide.