Hazel Holt (nee Young, 3 September 1928 – 23 November 2015)[1] was a British novelist.
She studied at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham, England, and then Newnham College, Cambridge.
She went on to work at the International African Institute in London, where she became acquainted with the novelist Barbara Pym, whose biography she later wrote.
[2] Holt wrote My Dear Charlotte,[3] a story that uses the actual language of Jane Austen's letters to her sister Cassandra to construct a Regency murder mystery.
Holt wrote her first novel in her sixties, and was a leading crime novelist.