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Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

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born

June 18, 1889 in Brooklyn, New York, The United States

died

February 07, 1955

gender

female

genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Romance

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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. In 1949 Raymond Chandler chose her as 'the best character and suspense writer (for consistent but not large production)', picking The Blank Wall (1947) as one of his favourites a...more

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Books by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

Average rating: 3.52 · 89 ratings · 24 reviews · 12 distinct works

	The Blank Wall 3.66 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1947	My rating:
	The Innocent Mrs. Duff / The Blank Wall (Two Novels Of Suspense) 3.31 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1946 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Death Wish: Net Of Cobwebs 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	My rating:
	The Girl Who Had to Die 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1940	My rating:
	The Deep End - Trügerische Stille. Roman zum Film. 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	The Old Battle Ax / Dark Power 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	My rating:
	The Strange Crime In Bermuda /Too Many Bottles 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Miasma 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1929	My rating:
	Angelica (1921) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Unlit Lamp: A Study of Interactions (1922) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating: