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An investigation into a suicide leads to an investigation of murder. Holding's rarest mystery. First published in 1937.

DEATH WISH

Poor Mr. Delancey. His wife Josephine belittles him, controlling his purse strings and managing his life. It's understandable that one might grow a bit resentful. His best friend, Robert Whitestone, is a frustrated artist. Whitestone hates his wife, and is in love with a young girl named Elsie who has come to stay with their neighbors, the Luffs. But Whitestone has a plan to free himself, and naturally Delancey is pulled into the middle of it, willingly or not. And when Mrs. Whitestone is found drowned, what can poor Delancey do? He has to help his friend, no...

LADY KILLER

Perhaps Honey hadn't married Weaver for love, but it wasn't entirely for money. When he had proposed to her he had been so attentive, the perfect gentleman. Now he quarrels with her all the time. And by the time they embark together on a cruise ship to the Caribbean, she begins to have serious doubts about their future together. So it really is quite a welcome distraction to find that the newly-wedded woman who shares the cabin next door with her handsome husband, Captain Lashelle, seems to be in need of her help. Poor Alma has victim written all over her. Soon...

On a Caribbean cruise with her older husband, Honey is convinced that the man in the next cabin plans to murder his wife. But why wouldn't anyone believe her? And why has her own husband turned against her?

With a beautiful country guesthouse for background, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding draws the reader into the sinister web of fear and terror that holds the occupants of the house in its grasp. Van Cleef, the detective, becomes one of the central characters in a charming romance which affords him some relief from the horrible chain of events which follows.

STRANGE CRIME IN BERMUDA

Hamish Grier received a telegram from his old friend Hector Malloy asking him to visit him in Bermuda. On the ship down he meets Stephanie Rose, a brash young lady who turns out to be Molloy's island neighbor. But the day Hamish arrives, Molloy disappears. His beautiful wife, Faquita, believes there is something horribly wrong but Molloy's business partner, Reggie Cornwall, is positive that everyone is simply overreacting--Molloy will turn up. But the rumors suggest that Molloy may have been involved with Miss Rose. Were they planning to run away...

SPEAK OF THE DEVIL

When Karen Peterson first meets Mr. Fernandez on the cruise ship, he is so charming. Still, when he offers her a job as hostess at his new island hotel, she accepts with a great deal of reluctance. After all, charm can hide a multitude of flaws. And when she meets her predecessor, the very young and headstrong Cecily, Miss Peterson is sure that she seems more than a mere employee. Even the guests have their secrets--Mrs. Fish tells her that she is looking for her husband's murderer at the hotel.

But that first night Cecily surprises them...

KILL JOY

People call her a goody-goody, but Maggie just wants to do the right thing. Perhaps she shouldn't have left the comfortable employ at the Camford house, but Miss Dolly was so insistent that she needed Maggie to accompany her as her new secretary. But why did they need to leave in the middle of the night? When they arrive at their secretive destination, it's nothing but a rather decrepit cottage by a lake--and occupied by two men, the artist Neely and his inebriated companion, Johnny Cassidy. This wouldn't do

The next morning Miss Dolly's lawyer,...

THE UNFINISHED CRIME

Andrew Branscombe has been courting Hilda Patrell in his old-fashioned, priggish way. He doesn't realize that, though separated from her husband, she is still married. So when Charles Patrell returns and begins to interfere with his plans, Andrew accidentally kills him in a fit of rage and fear. At first panicked, his terror turns to exhilaration as he realizes that he can get away with the deed. All he has to do is keep everyone from the truth.

First there is his sister Eva, who is trusting enough to believe everything he tells her. And...