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A suburban matron, harassed by wartime domestic problems - her husband is overseas - finds herself implicated in the murder of her young daughter's extremely unattractive beau. This novel is about maternal love and about the heroine's relationship with those around her, especially her children and her maid.
South America and the Caribbean before living in Bermuda for a number of years, where Mr. Holding was a government official. After Mr. Holding's retirement, the couple lived in the Bronx section of New York City, where Elisabeth Sanxay Holding died on February 7, 1955. Elisabeth Sanxay Holding wrote romantic novels during the 1920s, but, after the stock market crash in 1929, she turned to the more lucrative genre of the detective novel. From 1929 through 1954, she wrote eighteen detective novels, which sold well and earned her praise for her style and character development. Her series character for these novels was Lieutenant Levy.
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. The Blank Wall is about a housewife trying to protect her teenage daughter from a sleazy older married man.
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...
"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
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A landmark collection of four brilliant novels by the female pioneers of crime fiction—women who paved the way for Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Lisa Scottoline Though women crime and suspense writers dominate today’s bestseller lists, the extraordinary work of their mid-century predecessors is largely unknown. Turning from the mean streets of the hardboiled school, these groundbreaking female novelists found the roots of fear and violence in a quiet suburban neighborhood, on a college campus, or in a comfortable midtown hotel. Their work—influential in its day and still vibrant today—is long overdue for discovery. Edited by The Real Lolita author Sarah Weinman, this collection gat...
Fourteen chilling tales from the pioneering women who created the domestic suspense genre Murderous wives, deranged husbands, deceitful children, and vengeful friends. Few know these characters—and their creators—better than Sarah Weinman. One of today’s preeminent authorities on crime fiction, Weinman asks: Where would bestselling authors like Gillian Flynn, Sue Grafton, or Tana French be without the women writers who came before them? In Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives, Weinman brings together fourteen hair-raising tales by women who—from the 1940s through the mid-1970s—took a scalpel to contemporary society and sliced away to reveal its dark essence. Lovers of crime fiction from any era will welcome this deliciously dark tribute to a largely forgotten generation of women writers.