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Lady Killer: A Psychological Suspense Novel of Marriage, Fear, and Murder
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515425700
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lady Killer is a tense psychological suspense novel by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, one of the most quietly formidable writers of American crime fiction. Honey had not married Weaver for love, but she had expected comfort, safety, and a more graceful life. Instead, seven months later, aboard a cruise ship and trapped inside a marriage already curdling into dread, she begins to understand that respectability can become its own kind of prison.
First published in 1942, Lady Killer belongs to the tradition of domestic noir, psychological crime fiction, and mid-century American suspense. Holding's fiction is rarely built on spectacle; its force comes from pressure, fear, moral uncertainty, and the gradual revelation of danger inside ordinary arrangements. For readers of vintage mystery, noir fiction, psychological suspense, women-centered crime fiction, and rediscovered mid-century thrillers, Lady Killer offers the controlled menace and emotional intelligence that made Holding admired by later crime writers and editors.
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