Annie Haynes (September 1864 – 30 March 1929) was a British mystery writer.
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About Annie Haynes
Annie Haynes was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. The exact date of her birth is unknown, she was christened on 7 October 1864. She was the eldest child of ironmonger, Edwin Haynes, and his wife, Jane. Her parents separated when she was young and she grew up living with her mother, brother, and grandparents on the Coleorton Hall estate where her grandfather, Montgomery Henderson, worked as a gardener.
After her mother’s death in 1905, Haynes moved from Leicestershire to London and lived with her friend Ada Heather-Bigg, a journalist, philanthropist and feminist, at 14 Radnor Place, Hyde Park. According to Heather-Bigg, Haynes had an ‘intense interest in crime and criminal psychology’. She once cycled to Ightham in Kent to visit the scene of Caroline Mary Luard ’s 1908 murder and pushed her way into the Hilldrop Crescent home of Dr Crippen after the remains of his wife Corrine were found in the cellar in 1910. Haynes also attended Dr Crippen’s trial.
In 1914, at the age of 50, Haynes began suffering from rheumatoid arthritis which left her confined to her home. Haynes’s first novel, The Bungalow Mystery, was published by Agatha Christie ’s publisher, The Bodley Head, in 1923. Haynes and Christie were the only two female authors to be published by the imprint.
Bibliography
Inspector Furnival Mysteries
- The Abbey Court Murder (1923)
- The House in Charlton Crescent (1926)
- The Crow’s Inn Tragedy (1927)
Inspector Stoddart Mysteries
- The Man with the Dark Beard (1928)
- The Crime At Tattenham Corner (1929)
- Who Killed Charmian Karslake? (1929)
- The Crystal Beads Murder (1930)
Standalone Novels
- The Bungalow Mystery (1923)
- The Secret of Greylands (1924)
- The Blue Diamond (1925)
- The Witness on the Roof (1925)
- The Master of the Priory (1927)
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