Naomi Anne Messer Hocking (1890-1966) was an English writer and the daughter of the writer Joseph Hocking. Her series characters were Inspector Curtis and Sergeant Flyte. She also wrote one book (Mouse Trap) as Mona Messer.

Bibliography

A Castle For Sale (1930)

Mouse Trap (1931)

Cat's Paw (1933)

Death Duel (1933)

Walk Into My Parlour (1934)

The Hunt is Up (1934)

Without the Option (1935)

Stranglehold (1936)

The House of En Dor (1936)

As I Was Going To St Ives (1937)

What A Tangled Web (1937)

Ill Deeds Done (1938)

The Little Victims Play (1938)

So Many Doors (1939)

Old Mrs Fitzgerald (1939) {aka Deadly is the Evil Tongue}

The Wicked Flee (1940)

Miss Miverton (1941) {aka Poison Is a Bitter Brew}

Night's Candles (1941)

One Shall Be Taken (1942)

Nile Green (1943) {aka Death Loves a Shining Mark}

Six Green Bottles (1943)

The Vultures Gather (1945)

Death at the Wedding (1946)

Prussian Blue (1947) {aka The Finishing Touch}

At the Cedars (1949)

Death Disturbs Mr Jefferson (1951)

Mediterranean Murder (1951) {aka Killing Kin}

The Best Laid Plans (1952)

There's Death in the Cup (1952) {aka Death in the Cup}

Death Among the Tulips (1953)

The Evil That Men Do (1953)

And No One Wept (1954)

Poison in Paradise (1955)

A Reason For Murder (1955)

Murder at Mid Day (1956)

Relative Murder (1957)

The Simple Way of Poison (1957)

Epitaph For A Nurse (1958)

Poisoned Chalice (1959)

To Cease Upon the Midnight (1959)

The Thin Spun Life (1960)

Candidates For Murder (1961)

He Had To Die (1962)

Murder Cries Out (1968) Finished by Evelyn Healey