A cheery young woman takes a job as a traveling salesperson, and almost immediately finds herself surrounded by menace, in Elisabeth Sanxay Holding's Who's Afraid?
Our protagonist is calling on housewives in a small town, but quickly finds the husband of one of them dead along a path, with herself in the law's sights. She tries to keep up her spirits even while a pair of young men--whose motives she begins to question--both vie to help her.
Stark House Press seems to be trying singlehandedly to bring Holding's work back into the public eye (she wrote from the 20s-50s), and deservedly so; she is a sharp, darkly funny crime writer.
I was very shocked to find an Ace Double with this on one side and her Widow's Mite on the other out in the wild on a camping trip, as her books are hard to find outside of Stark House Press reprints. Unfortunately, I dropped it and my dog promptly peed on it. I bought the Stark House Kindle version to finish it up.
Credit where credit is due, when I posted about this on social media, Stark House Press sent me two more Holding books for Kindle, a welcome surprise.
I read this one quickly and enjoyed it; recommended for those who have yet to discover Elisabeth Sanxay Holding.
No comments:
Post a Comment