Pamela Branch

Pamela Jean Branch (née Byatt, 1920–1967) was a British author of four comic murder mystery novels.

Pamela Branch
Born	Pamela Jean Byatt 1920 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
Died	1967
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupation	novelist
Known for	The Wooden Overcoat
Spouses	Newton Branch James Edward Stuart-Lyon

She was born on her parents' tea plantation in Ceylon.^[1] She was educated in England, studied art in Paris, and attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

She married the solicitor Newton Branch, and they moved together to Cyprus.^[2] She divorced Branch in the late 1950s. In 1962, she married James Edward Stuart-Lyon. In 1967, she died from cancer, aged 47.^[2]

In 2009, The Wooden Overcoat was made into a one-hour BBC Radio 4 drama, adapted by Mark Gatiss, and starring David Tennant.^[3]

Bibliography

Novels

• The Wooden Overcoat. Robert Hale: London, 1951
• Lion in the Cellar. Robert Hale: London, 1951
• Murder Every Monday. Robert Hale: London, 1954
• Murder's Little Sister. Robert Hale: London, 1958

Stage plays

• Murder Every Monday (adapted from the novel) by Pamela Branch and Philip Dale. First performed in 1964