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7th November 2024

Although Elisabeth Sanxay Holding - "the top suspense writer of them all" according to Raymond Chandler - lived in many places with her British diplomat husband, she was born and brought up in New York and later retired there. NYC is also one of the settings for the thriller The Blank Wall (1947) which was filmed by Max Ophuls as The Reckless Moment (1949) with James Mason and Joan Bennett. 

 

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