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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
1956 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel (Beast in View).
1965 Woman of the Year Award from the Los Angeles Times.
1983 Mystery Writer's of America Grand Master Award for Lifetime Achievement.
In the novels of Margaret Millar the polished veneer of the so-called "Greatest Generation" is peeled back to expose misogyny, racism, greed, and murder... lots and lots of murder.
Margaret Millar (1915 - 1994) was one of the most important mystery writers of her era and her novels, although now set decades in the past, contained a sharpness and psychological acuity that would be the envy of contemporary writers. Millar's prose was as meticulous as her plotting and as cutting as the murder weapons implemented in her stories. She won the 1956 Edgar Award for Best Novel and was a Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster, a Los Angeles Times "Woman of the Year", and a fascinating study in feminism in action.
Born in Kitchener, Ontario, she spent most of her life in Santa Barbara, California with her husband Ken Millar, better known under the nomme de plume, Ross Macdonald. Although in more recent times the name of Ross Macdonald is better known than Margaret Millar's, there was very good reason for Ken to write under a different name.
COLLECTED MILLAR
Volume I: THE FIRST DETECTIVES
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 [Taste of Fears] (1945)
Volume II: DAWN OF DOMESTIC SUSPENSE
Fire Will Freeze (1944)
Experiment in Springtime (1947)
The Cannibal Heart (1949)
Do Evil in Return (1950)
Rose's Last Summer (1952)
Volume III: THE MASTER AT HER ZENITH
Vanish in an Instant (1952)
Wives and Lovers (1954)
Beast in View (1955)
An Air That Kills (1957)
The Listening Walls (1959)
Volume IV: LEGENDARY NOVELS OF SUSPENSE
A Stranger in My Grave (1960)
How Like an Angel (1962)
The Fiend (1964)
Beyond This Point Are Monsters (1970)
Volume V: THE TOM ARAGON NOVELS
Tom Aragon Novels
Ask for Me Tomorrow (1976)
The Murder of Miranda (1979)
Mermaid (1982)
Volume VI: FIRST THINGS, LAST THINGS
Banshee (1983)
Spider Webs (1986)
The Couple Next Door: Collected Short Mysteries. Ed. Tom Nolan (2004)
It’s All in the Family (1948) (semi-autobiographical children’s novel book)
Volume VII
The Birds and the Beasts Were There: The Joys of Birdwatching in California's Richest Habitat (1968) (memoir)
