Lady Killer: A Psychological Suspense Novel of Marriage, Fear, and Murder - Paperback

Holding, Elisabeth Sanxay: - Elisabeth Sanxay Holding was an American novelist and one of the important women writers of twentieth-century crime and suspense fiction. Born in 1889, she wrote both earlier literary and domestic novels and a substantial body of mystery and suspense fiction. Her work is especially associated with psychological tension, domestic unease, moral ambiguity, and the quiet terror that can develop within marriage, family, money, and respectable social arrangements. Her crime novels include The Blank Wall, The Innocent Mrs. Duff, Net of Cobwebs, Speak of the Devil, Kill Joy, Lady Killer, and others.Holding's reputation has grown among readers interested in noir fiction, women crime writers, domestic suspense, and the less obvious corners of mid-century American mystery. She is not merely a puzzle writer or a maker of melodrama; her strongest books turn ordinary life into a field of psychological pressure, where fear and guilt develop quietly before becoming inescapable. Lady Killer, first published in 1942 by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, belongs to that line of work: compact, controlled, and alert to the danger hidden inside apparently conventional lives.