A Stranger in My Grave
by Margaret Millar
from International Polygonics
Beast in View
by Margaret Millar
from Carroll & Graf
The Couple Next Door: Collected Short Mysteries (Lost Classics)
by Margaret Millar
from Crippen & Landru Publishers
A MASTER OF SUSPENSE Margaret Millar (1915-1994) was an internationally popular author whose well-crafted and sharply-written books pioneered the subgenre of psychological suspense. In a nearly 50-year writing career – which began in her native Canada and continued in Southern California – she earned the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar and Grand Master Awards, and the enthusiasm of such discriminating readers as Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, W.H. Auden and Truman Capote.
Best-known for her novels, Margaret Millar also wrote a handful of short stories, tales much admired by peers (including her husband Kenneth Millar, who used the pseudonym Ross Macdonald) but never collected in book form. Now Macdonald’s biographer Tom Nolan has gathered and introduced those stories in this volume, which includes two all-but-unknown novellas from the 1940s. Here are half-a-dozen exhibits in evidence of the case made by English author and critic H.R.F. Keating, who judged: “No woman in twentieth-century American mystery writing is more important than Margaret Millar.”
The Couple Next Door is the 15th in the Crippen & Landru “Lost Classics” series. The cover design is by Deborah Miller.
How Like an Angel
by Margaret Millar
from Carroll & Graf
An Air That Kills / Do Evil in Return (Stark House Mystery Classics)
by Margaret Millar
from Stark House Press
Two classic mysteries originally published in 1957 and 1950, with a new introduction by Tom Nolan, author of Ross Macdonald: A Biography.
Banshee
Mermaid (Library of Crime Classics Series)
by Margaret Millar
from International Polygonics
The Cannibal Heart
Iron Gates (Library of Crime Classics)
by Margaret Millar
from International Polygonics
Best Mysteries of All Time: A Stranger in My Grave (The Best Mysteries of All Time)
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