Hamilton Crane

Hamilton Crane is the pen name for Sarah J. Mason, the author a series of 13 sequels and the prequel to the highly popular mystery thriller novels the “Miss Seeton” series. As Sarah J Mason, she has also written several novels that include the “Trewley and Stone” detective fiction series of novels, and two freestanding novels. However, it is important not to confuse Sarah J Mason with Sarah Mason, the British romance novelist who has no middle name. Hamilton Crane has lived for about fifty years in Hertfordshire in England, and lived for a year in New Zealand and four years in Scotland. The Miss Seeton series of novels for which Crane is most popular for were originally written and published by Heron Carvic. Carvic wrote the first five titles of the series before making way for Hampton Charles who wrote as Roy Peter Martin. Hamilton Crane took up the series in 1991, when she wrote her first title “Miss Seeton Cracks the Case”, the ninth book in the series. She would also go on to write the prequel to the series that gave a background of the Miss Seeton character, eleven years before the events of the series. Hamilton Crane currently resides in Somerset, a few miles from the quaint city of Wells, which is just far enough from the big city of Glastonbury that she does not have to deal with the severe traffic snarl-ups.