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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.
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...
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.
The Thing Beyond Reason, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work, and hence their text is clear and readable. This remarkable volume falls within the genres of Language and Literatures American and Canadian literature
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (1889–1955) was an American novelist and short story writer. She primarily authored fiction in the hardboiled subgenre of detective novels.Born June 18, 1889 in Brooklyn, New York, Sanxay attended Miss Whitcombe's and other schools for young ladies before marrying British diplomat George E. Holding in 1913. The couple had two daughters, Skeffington (1917-2009) and Antonia (1920-2006), and traveled widely in 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.
On a Caribbean cruise with her older husband, Honey is convinced that the man in the next cabin plans to murder his wife. But why wouldn't anyone believe her? And why has her own husband turned against her?
"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
An investigation into a suicide leads to an investigation of murder. Holding's rarest mystery. First published in 1937.