Margaret yorke biography

          Margaret Beda Nicholson (née Larminie; 30 January – 17 November ), known professionally as Margaret Yorke, was an English crime fiction writer.

        1. Margaret Yorke is one of the most renowned British female authors of the mystery novel.
        2. Margaret was born in Surrey and spent her childhood in Ireland.
        3. Margaret Beda Nicholson, known professionally as Margaret Yorke, was an English crime fiction writer.
        4. Margaret Yorke, who has died aged 88, wrote more than 40 crime novels, was chair of the Crime Writers' Association and in won the CWA's Cartier Diamond.

          5. Margaret was born in Surrey and spent her childhood in Ireland....

          Margaret Yorke

          English crime fiction writer

          For the badminton player Margaret Larminie, see Margaret Tragett.

          Margaret Beda Nicholson (née Larminie; 30 January 1924 – 17 November 2012), known professionally as Margaret Yorke, was an English crime fiction writer.

          Life and work

          Margaret Larminie was born in Compton, Surrey, near Godalming,[1][2] on 30 January 1924. She spent her childhood in Dublin, moving to England in 1937.

          Margaret Yorke was an English crime fiction writer, real name Margaret Beda Nicholson (née Larminie).

          During World War II she worked as a hospital librarian, then at eighteen she joined the WRNS as a driver.

          She changed to the Yorke pen name to avoid readers' confusion with a similarly-named published family member.[3] She published her first novel Summer Flight in 1957, and in Dead in the Morning invented an Oxford don sleuth, Patrick Grant, who shared her love of Shakespeare.

          Her last novels were A Case to Answer (2000) and Cause for Concern (2001). Her five Patrick Grant books were reissued as ebooks i