'A suburban matron, harassed by wartime domestic problems - her husband is overs
eas - finds herself implicated in the murder of her young daughter's extremely u
nattractive beau' (The New Yorker). An outstanding example of the psychological
thriller genre, 'worthy of the great Patricia Highsmith herself,' as Lady Antoni
a Fraser said in the Spectator. The Blank Wall (1947) was filmed as The Reckless
Moment in 1949 and as The Deep End in 2001, starring Tilda Swinton. In 1950 Ray
mond Chandler asked his English publisher, 'Does anybody in England publish Elis
abeth Sanxay Holding? For my money she's the top suspense writer of them all. Sh
e doesn't pour it on and make you feel irritated. Her characters are wonderful;
and she has a sort of inner calm which I find very attractive.'
