"Expert, ingenious suspense story of a cat and mouse chase – and of murder. How Susan, traveling for Gateways, a Charm School racket, is picked up and trailed by three men. How the husband of her first contact is murdered, of mounting confusion and terror as she is finally stalked. All set in an innocent New England village. Clever trick narration – and breathless build-up. Non-pareil and quite novelty." – Kirkus Reviews
The Death Wish by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, the author whom Raymond Chandler named "the top suspense writer of them all."<br><br>Everyone thought Bob and Rosalind Whitestone were happily married. But to Bob, a struggling artist, life with Rosalind was torment, for she had artfully destroyed his faith in himself. Then Elsa appeared, with her beauty and he impassioned eagerness, and suddenly Bob knew he needed to be free. With her arrival, life also takes a new turn...
En route to Havana, Cuba by ship, Karen Peterson allows herself to be persuaded to dirvert to a smaller Caribbean island, Riquezas, to take the job of hostess at a new hotel. She isn't there long before murder strikes…and the previous hostess confesses to the crime. But Miss Peterson is convinced she's innocent. And then the murderer strikes again…
