3 Books by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
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Overview: Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (1889-1955) was born and brought up in New York and educated at Miss Whitcombe’s and other schools for young ladies. In 1913 she married George Holding, a British diplomat. They had two daughters and lived in various South American countries, and then in Bermuda, where her husband was a government official. Elisabeth Sanxay Holding wrote six romantic novels in the 1920s but, after the stock market crash, turned to the more profitable genre of detective novels: from 1929-54 she wrote eighteen, as well as numerous short stories for magazines.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
The innocent Mrs. Duff
“My God!” Jacob Duff said to himself, standing stripped before the bathroom mirror. “I’m putting on weight!”
He was a big man, and very well-built, with broad shoulders and narrow flanks; it shocked him to study that thickening around his middle. And his ruddy, handsome face showed a sagging about the jowls. My God! he thought. I’m only forty-two. There shouldn’t be anything like this…
Reggie began singing in her bedroom. Oh, shut up! he cried in his heart. You can’t carry a tune. You know that; you know how it gets on my nerves, and still you keep on. Shut up!…
Net of Cobwebs
Malcolm Drake waked early that morning; a little after five. It was a fine September morning and he felt fine, simply fine; he went into his bathroom and took a cold shower, and then there was the thermos bottle of hot coffee on the table. Virginia left it there every night; she was always trying to help him…
The Girl Who Had to Die
Here’s the most important crime novelty in a month of Sundays, so different in approach and execution from the standard brands as to take first place in any list of current offerings. To come right out with the talking points, Mrs. Holding’s narrative style is probably foremost, and if you think that couldn’t help turn a brilliant trick, you haven’t sampled THE GIRL WHO HAD TO DIE… It is admirably suited to the special kind of shudders, horrid hints, nightmare overtones and general wickedness dealt in by the wicked characters.
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