Elizabeth Sanxay Holding

Elizabeth Sanxay Holding

Elizabeth Sanxay Holding (1889 – 1955) was an American novelist and short story writer who primarily wrote detective novels in the hardboiled school of detective fiction. Her name is also variously listed as Elisabeth Sanxay Holding.

Life

Born and brought up 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 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 New York City, where Elizabeth Sanxay Holding died in 1955.

Literary career

Elizabeth 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 significant praise for her style and character development. Her series character for these novels was Lieutenant Levy. Holding also wrote numerous short stories for popular magazines of the day.

Critical reputation

Holding was much admired during her day. Raymond Chandler, one of the top writers of detective fiction during its golden age of 1920 – 1940, said of Holding that she was “the top suspense writer of them all.” [http://www.starkhousepress.com/holding.html] Literary critic Anthony Boucher wrote: “For subtlety, realistic conviction, incredible economy, she’s in a class by herself.” [http://gadetection.pbwiki.com/The-Innocent-Mrs-Duff-by-Elizabeth-Sanxay-Holding?doneSave=1] . Holding's novel “The Blank Wall” (1947) was so popular in its day that it was made into a movie titled “The Reckless Moment” in 1949. In 2001 it was made into the movie “The Deep End” starring Tilda Swinton. A number of Holding’s books have also been brought back into reprint by Stark House Press and made available to a new group of readers.

Bibliography

Romances

Invincible Minnie (1920)

Angelica (1921)

Rosaleen Among the Artists (1921)

The Unlit Lamp (1922)

Detective novels

Miasma (1929)

Dark Power (1930)

The Death Wish (1934)

The Unfinished Crime (1935)

The Strange Crime in Bermuda (1937)

The Obstinate Murderer (1938) also published as No Harm Intended

The Girl Who Had To Die (1940)

Who's Afraid? (1940) also published as Trial By Murder

Speak of the Devil (1941)

Kill Joy (1942) also published as Murder is a Kill-Joy

Lady Killer (1942)

The Old Battle Ax (1943)

Net of Cobwebs (1945)

The Innocent Mrs. Duff (1946)

The Blank Wall (1947)

Too Many Bottles (1951) also published as The Party Was the Pay-Off

The Virgin Huntress (1951)

Widow's Mite (1953)

External links

* [http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/pages/authors/elisabeth_sanxay_holding.htm]
* [http://vinpulp.blogspot.com/2008/02/blank-wall-by-elisabeth-sanxay-holding.html]
* [http://www.answers.com/topic/the-deep-end-film-1?cat=entertainment]
* [http://members.aol.com/MG4273/realist.htm]
* [http://gadetection.pbwiki.com/The-Innocent-Mrs-Duff-by-Elizabeth-Sanxay-Holding?doneSave=1]


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