Holden, David

David Shipley Holden (20 November 1924 – 7 December 1977) was a writer, journalist, and broadcaster, best known as the Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Sunday Times, specialising in Middle-Eastern affairs, where he had been since 1965. He was murdered execution-style in Cairo, Egypt. His editor, Harold Evans, assigned three of his top journalists to conduct a six-month investigation, which included several trips to the Middle East and one to the United States. The murder was never solved, and no political group claimed responsibility. In Evans' autobiography, My Paper Chase (2009), he covered the murder of Holden and investigation.