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The Unlit Lamp and Selected Stories

The Unlit Lamp and Selected Stories

ClassicsLiterary Fiction
Pages
306
Published
2018
Language
English

Synopsis

This collection features the chilling novella 'The Unlit Lamp' alongside other selected stories from Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, a master of psychological suspense. Readers will find themselves drawn into tales of domestic unease, hidden dangers, and the unsettling truths lurking beneath ordinary lives. Holding's sharp prose explores the darker corners of human nature and the quiet desperation of her characters.

Prose complexity
7/10

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TenseDarkAtmospheric

Genres

Classics Literary Fiction Mystery Thriller Psychological Thriller

About the author

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Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

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-...