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The Obstinate Murderer

2018138 pagesBlack Curtain Press

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Lucy Duff is accused of murdering her husband, but her memory of the night is fragmented and unreliable. As the investigation unfolds, her already fragile mental state begins to unravel, making it difficult to discern truth from delusion. This story explores the unsettling ambiguity of guilt and the depths of a troubled mind.

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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-...

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