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Sara Woods

Sara Woods is a pseudonym of Lana Hutton Bowen-Judd. She was a British mystery writer, who also used the pen names of Anne Burton, Mary Challis, and Margaret Leek.

Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, Woods was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Filey, Yorkshire.

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. She married Anthony George Bowen-Judd on 25 April 1946, and with him ran a pig breeding farm from 1948 to 1954. In 1957 they moved to Nova Scotia in Canada. There she worked as registrar for St. Mary's University until 1964. In 1961 she wrote her first novel, Bloody Instructions, introducing the hero of forty-nine of her mysteries, Anthony Maitland, an English barrister.

Lana Bowen-Judd was a member of the Society of Authors in England, the Authors League of America, the Mystery Writers of America, and the English Crime Writers' Association. She was also instrumental in forming Crime Writers of Canada, serving on its first executive committee.

Her last years were passed with her husband in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. She died in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on 5 November 1985.

Born 7 March 1922
Died 5 November 1985

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  • Cover of: Bloody instructions
    Cover of edition bloodyinstructio0000sara First published in 1962 7 editions

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  • Cover of: The bloody book of law
    First published in 1984 7 editions

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  • Cover of: The Lie Direct
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  • Cover of: Nor live so long
    First published in 1986 7 editions

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  • Cover of: Most deadly hate
    First published in 1986 6 editions

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  • Cover of: Naked villainy
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  • Cover of: Let's choose executors
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  • Cover of: Enter certain murderers.
    First published in 1966 5 editions

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  • Cover of: This fatal writ.
    First published in 1979 5 editions

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  • Cover of: And Shame the Devil
    First published in 1967 5 editions

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  • Cover of: Dearest enemy
    First published in 1981 5 editions

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  • Cover of: Murder's out of tune
    First published in 1984 5 editions

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  • Cover of: Defy the devil
    First published in 1984 5 editions

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  • Cover of: Proceed to judgement
    First published in 1979 5 editions

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  • Cover of: Error of the Moon
    First published in 1963 4 editions

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  • Cover of: Tarry and Be Hanged
    First published in 1969 4 editions

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  • Cover of: The case is altered.
    First published in 1967 4 editions

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  • Cover of: Knives have edges
    First published in 1968 4 editions

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  • Cover of: The law's delay
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  • Cover of: A Thief or Two
    First published in 1977 4 editions

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