The Strange Crime in Bermuda
1937
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Elisabeth Sanxay Holding was an American novelist and short story writer who primarily wrote detective novels in the hardboiled school of detective fiction. Raymond Chandler called her “the top suspense writer of them all.” In "The Strange Crime in Bermuda," Hamish Grier travels to the island of Bermuda in response to the telegram from a friend, but when he arrives his friend has disappeared. And then, Hamish will find one of his friend wife’s servant dead in a trunk. What is happening? It will not be long before the local Inspector becomes involved, with Hamish very much in the thick of it all.
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Author
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
Author · 12 books
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 among her books; it was filmed as The Reckless Moment in 1949 (by Max Ophuls) and as The Deep End (with Tilda Swinton) in 2001. After her husband's retirement the Holdings lived in New York City. Her series character was Lieutenant Levy. Holding also wrote numerous short stories for popular magazines of the day.
