Margaret Millar

Margaret Millar has written at least 24 books. Their most popular book is Beast In View with 14 saves with an average rating of 3.5⭐.

Author Bio

Margaret Ellis Millar (née Sturm) was an American-Canadian mystery and suspense writer.

Born in Kitchener, Ontario, she was educated at the Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto. She moved to the United States after marrying Kenneth Millar (better known under the pen name Ross Macdonald). They resided for decades in the city of Santa Barbara, which was often used as a locale in her later novels under the pseudonyms of San Felice or Santa Felicia. The Millars had a daughter who died in 1970.

In the early '60s, two of her novels (Beast in View and Rose's Last Summer) were adapted for the anthology TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Thriller.

She was a master of character, a genius of plot twists, and a superb stylist. It’s rare to find those three talents in one literary package, yet, over the course of a 55-year-long career, Maggie maintained her high standards throughout her 27 books, short stories, half a dozen screenplays, poems, radio stories, and one touching memoir. Plus, she did it while struggling to raise a child, keep a house, and deal with a husband who later became more famous than she. Perhaps you’ve heard of Ken Millar. He wrote under the pseudonym of Ross Macdonald and created the Lew Archer detective series, which paid homage to the hard-boiled detective masters Dashiell Hammet and Raymond Chandler, and he eventually joined them in that genre’s pantheon of men.

Source: Wikipedia & L. A. Review of Books

L. A. Review of Books

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Beast In View Margaret Millar	3.5	2 reads
A stranger in my grave Margaret Millar	0	0 reads
Vanish in an Instant Vanish in an Instant Margaret Millar	3.5	2 reads
Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s Charlotte Armstrong Patricia Highsmith Margaret Millar Dolores Hitchens	0	0 reads
The Fiend The Fiend Margaret Millar	0	0 reads
Fire Will Freeze Fire Will Freeze Margaret Millar	3	1 read
Chambers Concise Dictionary of Scientists David Millar John Millar Ian Millar Margaret Millar	0	1 read
The Listening Walls The Listening Walls Margaret Millar	0	1 read
An Air That Kills An Air That Kills Margaret Millar	0	0 reads
The Cannibal Heart Margaret Millar	0	0 reads
Pagarás con maldad Margaret Millar	0	0 reads
How Like an Angel Margaret Millar	0	0 reads
Beyond This Point Are Monsters Margaret Millar	0	0 reads
Women Crime Writers Charlotte Armstrong Patricia Highsmith Margaret Millar Dolores Hitchens	0	0 reads
Murder of Miranda Margaret Millar	0	0 reads
The Iron Gates The Iron Gates Margaret Millar	5	1 read
Crime Novels: Four Classic Thrillers 1964-1969 Geoffrey O'Brien Margaret Millar Ed McBain Chester Himes Patricia Highsmith	0	0 reads
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories for Late at Night	0	0 reads
Listening Walls Margaret Millar	0	0 reads
Mermaid Margaret Millar	0	0 reads
Ask for Me Tomorrow Ask for Me Tomorrow Margaret Millar	0	0 reads
Los Angeles Noir 2 Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics Raymond Chandler Joseph Hansen William Campbell Gault Jervey Tervalon Yxta Maya Murray Kate Braverman Paul Cain Leigh Brackett James M. Cain Chester Himes Ross Macdonald Naomi Hirahara James Ellroy Margaret Millar Walter Mosley	0	0 reads
Experiment in Springtime Margaret Millar	0	0 reads
The devil loves me Margaret Millar	0	0 reads