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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
The Girl Who Had To Die (1940)
“I’m going to be murdered,” she said in her muffled, sad little voice. Jocelyn is only nineteen but is convinced that she is going to die. She meets John Killian on a cruise ship heading back to New York. And when later than night she falls over the rail and into the ocean, it looks like her prediction had come true. Imagine Killian’s surprise when the rescued Jocelyn insists that he was the one who had pushed her.
She’s poison, he thought. She can’t help that, anymore than a rattlesnake can help it. But you have to get away from her. When they dock, Jocelyn convinces Killian to accompany her to the Bells for a visit. She’s claims that she is in love with Killian, and will keep his secret. And then one of the passengers, Elly L’O, and the ship’s purser, Chauverney, also show up at the Bells, followed by Angelo, who had been their ship’s waiter. Each one seems to have a connection to Jocelyn—even Mr. and Mrs. Bell–and it soon becomes clear to Killian that they are bonds of hate. But Jocelyn claims innocence. Is he being groomed to be her next victim—or her murderer?
Who’s Afraid? (1940) aka Trial by Murder
"Expert, ingenious suspense story of a cat and mouse chase — and of murder. How Susan, traveling for Gateways, a Charm School racket, is picked up and trailed by three men. How the husband of her first contact is murdered, of mounting confusion and terror as she is finally stalked. All set in an innocent New England village. Clever trick narration — and breathless build-up. Non-pareil and quite novelty." — Kirkus Reviews
Speak of the Devil (1941) aka Hostess to Murder
En route to Havana, Cuba by ship, Karen Peterson allows herself to be persuaded to dirvert to a smaller Caribbean island, Riquezas, to take the job of hostess at a new hotel. She isn’t there long before murder strikes…and the previous hostess confesses to the crime. But Miss Peterson is convinced she’s innocent. And then the murderer strikes again…
Net of Cobwebs (1945)
Witness? Murder? Or Sucker?
Malcolm Drake had been a merchant seaman but he had a nervous breakdown and now he lives in his brother’s house with his sister-in-law and her sister, Virginia-and domineering Aunt Evie. When Aunt Evie drops dead at a party one evening the rumors quickly spread that he had something to do with it. And now the police are starting to ask questions. Drake is enmeshed in a net of cobwebs, unable to trust his own thoughts, and the strands are growing tighter by the moment.
The Innocent Mrs. Duff (1946)
The Innocent Mrs. Duff is set in New York City and a Westchester suburb, and centers on an unraveling alcoholic widower newly remarried to a 21-year-old model.
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