We're over half-way through issuing the complete works of Margaret Millar as eBooks. Below is a handy visual guide to what's available now. Click through each cover for more title information in the Syndicate Bookstore.
All eBook covers by Jeff Wong.
Syndicate is thrilled to announce that we're issuing stand-alone trades for several of Margaret Millar's classic works of suspense. This is a perfect way for new readers to discover the MWA Grandmaster's brilliant work and also get a print copy of artist Jeff Wong's excellent covers.
In February we're publishing the Edgar Award for Best Novel-winning BEAST IN VIEW and following that in April with the cunningly plotted A STRANGER IN MY GRAVE. More stand-alones will follow. Stay tuned for those announcements.
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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 and, to a lesser degree, her brother. The only person who seemingly cares for her is the family’s attorney, Paul Blackshear. A shut-in, Helen maintains her residence in an upscale hotel downtown.
But passive-aggressive resentment isn’t the only thing hounding Helen Clarvoe. A string of bizarre and sometimes threatening prank phone calls has upended her spinster’s routine. Increasingly threatened, she turns to a reluctant Mr. Blackshear to get to the bottom of these strange calls. Blackshear is doubtful of their seriousness but he quickly realizes that he is in the midst of something far more sinister than he thought possible. As he unravels the mystery of the calls the identity behind them slowly emerges, predatory and treacherous.
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Young housewife Daisy Harker’s world is upended when a blank spot in her memory and a reoccurring nightmare link her to an unsolved murder and a decades-old conspiracy
Jim and Daisy Harker are a young, well-to-do couple in San Felice, California, and though childless they maintain the sort of domestic happiness that others can only aspire to. But a darkness exists at the outer edges of Daisy’s mind and she has no idea why it’s there. In a series of reoccurring nightmares she wanders a cemetery, eventually finding her own gravestone. According to the dream, December 2nd, 1955 is the day she died.
Street smart but honorable, Stevens Pinata is a man with his own mysteries. An orphan left on a church doorstep as a child, he isn’t even certain of his ethnicity, let alone his goals in life. As a private investigator he works with bail bonds and quick shakedowns. But when a pretty young woman like Daisy Harker comes into his office with a crazy request to “find her lost day” he is intrigued. He is too decent to take advantage of a crazy woman, but Mr. Harker is a wealthy man and who is Pinata to turn down money?
What unfolds is a masterpiece of suspense and one of the books that forever changed the domestic thriller. Millar’s razor sharp prose cuts a masterful plot and slashes at the racism, sexism, and entitlement endemic to an era otherwise celebrated for its prosperity.
It's been a long haul but COLLECTED MILLAR is nearly a reality. The final two volumes are scheduled to release in April and there's a very cool run of stand-alone novels we're issuing this year for those wanting to get their feet wet before diving in. BEAST IN VIEW and A STRANGER IN MY GRAVE are set to release in trade paperback in February and April respectively.
To order COLLECTED MILLAR (first five volumes ship immediately and the last two in March) CLICK HERE.
For details on the the schedule of COLLECTED MILLAR see blow.
This is shaping up to be a big year for Syndicate Books so be sure to stay tuned for some very cool project announcements.
Almost there...
This handsome paperback set represents the first ever complete accounting of the life's work of one of the 20th century's most important suspense writers.
VOLUME I
Collected Millar: The First Detectives
AVAILABLE NOW
The Paul Prye Mysteries
The Invisible Worm (1941)
The Weak-Eyed Bat (1942)
The Devil Loves Me (1942)
Inspector Sands Mysteries
Wall of Eyes (1943)
The Iron Gates (1945)
VOLUME II Collected Millar: Dawn of Domestic Suspense
AVAILABLE NOW
Fire Will Freeze (1944)
Experiment in Springtime (1947)
The Cannibal Heart (1949)
Do Evil in Return (1950)
Rose's Last Summer (1952)
VOLUME III
Collected Millar: The Master at Her Zenith
AVAILABLE NOW
Introduction by Tom Nolan
Vanish in an Instant (1952)
Wives and Lovers (1954)
Beast in View (1955)
An Air That Kills (1957)
The Listening Walls (1959)
VOLUME IV
Collected Millar: Legendary Novels of Suspense
AVAILABLE NOW
A Stranger in My Grave (1960)
How Like an Angel (1962)
The Fiend (1964)
Beyond This Point Are Monsters (1970)
VOLUME V
Collected Millar: The Tom Aragon Novels
AVAILABLE NOW
Ask for Me Tomorrow (1976)
The Murder of Miranda (1979)
Mermaid (1982)
VOLUME VI
Collected Millar: First Things, Last Things
Publishing on April 3rd, 2018
Banshee (1983)
Spider Webs (1986)
It’s All in the Family (1948)
Collected Short Fiction
VOLUME VII
The Birds and Beasts Were There
Publishing on April 10th, 2018
The Birds and Beasts Were There: The Joys of Birdwatching and Wildlife Observation in California's Richest Habitat
