Margaret Millar has written at least 23 books. Their most popular book is Beast in view with 10 saves with an average rating of 3.5⭐.
They are best known for writing in the genres Fiction and Fiction in English.
dark and mysterious are their most common moods.
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
10 Readers • 3.5
5 Readers
1952 • 3 Readers • 240 pages • 3.5
1944 • 2 Readers • 3
1964 • 2 Readers • 246 pages
#2 of 2 in Women Crime Writers: Library of America
2015 • 2 Readers
1 Reader
#2 of 2 in Women Crime Writers: Library of America
2015 • 1 Reader • 767 pages
1 Reader
2010 • 1 Reader • 332 pages
1 Reader • 950 pages
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1961 • 1 Reader • 469 pages
1989 • 1 Reader
1 Reader
1957 • 1 Reader
1949 • 1 Reader
1959 • 1 Reader
2018 • 122 pages
1976 • 271 pages