Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

Born June 18, 1889, in Brooklyn, New York, Sanxay attended Miss Whitcombe's and other schools for young ladies before marrying British diplomat George E. Holding in 1913.

A number of Holding's crime novels have been more recently reprinted by Stark House Press and other publishers and made available to new readers.

It appeared in 2015 as part of the Library of America's omnibus Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s.

"[2] Literary critic and editor Anthony Boucher wrote that "For subtlety, realistic conviction, incredible economy, she’s in a class by herself.

"[3] Boucher also praised Holding's Miss Kelly, about a cat who learns to speak with humans, as "one of those too-rare juvenile fantasies with delightful appeal to the adult connoisseur.