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Mar 29, 1994 · March 29, 1994 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. Margaret Millar, the prolific author of more than 25 psychological mystery novels and two-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award, has died. She was ...
Nov 28, 2013 · The New Yorker praised The Invisible Worm, and critics announced that Margaret Millar was a writer “of considerable voltage.” Elated, she fell to work on the second book.
Margaret Millar has 131 books on Goodreads with 20992 ratings. Margaret Millar’s most popular book is Beast In View.
Hailed as one of the greatest psychological mysteries ever written and winner of the 1956 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Novel, Beast in View remains as freshly sinister today as the day it was first published. Thirty-year-old Helen Clarvoe is scared and all alone. The heiress of a small fortune, she is resented by her mother ...
Perhaps Margaret Millar’s most controversial book—and certainly among her best— Do Evil in Return is a meticulously plotted and suspenseful meditation on abortion and the hypocrisy of the laws governing a woman’s body. Millar may be known as the Grande Dame of domestic suspense, but this brutal tale of a doctor hell-bent on uncovering ...
Millar was the 1983 Mystery Writers of America Grand Master award winner. Beast in View is a sharp-edged, lean, masterpiece. The story was published in 1955 and won the Best Novel Edgar Award in 1956. It is approximately 200 pages long, depending on the edition. Beast in View is set-up as a standard PI investigation, focusing on a stalker in ...
Margaret Millar (1915-1994) was the author of 27 books and a masterful pioneer of psychological mysteries and thrillers. Born in Kitchener, Ontario, she spent most of her life in Santa Barbara, California, with her husband Ken Millar, who is better known by his nom de plume of Ross Macdonald. Her 1956 novel Beast in View won the Edgar Allan Poe ...
