Carol Higgins Clark, who as a young woman retyped manuscripts by her mother, the famed mystery writer Mary Higgins Clark, before going on to become a best-selling suspense novelist herself, died on Monday in Los Angeles. Ms. Higgins Clark wrote more than a dozen novels on her own, beginning with “Decked” in 1992, and several others with Christmas themes in collaboration with her mother, who died in 2020. “She had her first suspense novel coming out, and had to get her second one in to her agent,” Carol Higgins Clark told NPR in 2008. “It was before computers, and she didn’t know how she was going to get it retyped in time, so I did it. And I did that for a number of her books, which was great for me to learn about how to write.”

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Persons: Carol Higgins Clark, Mary Higgins Clark, Higgins Clark, ” Carol Higgins Clark, ” Organizations: Mount Holyoke College, NPR Locations: Los Angeles, Massachusetts