Margaret Millar

24 featured booksMargaret Millar

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

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Pieknym za nadobne (polish)
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An Air That Kills / Do Evil in Return
Representative edition published 2006
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The Couple Next Door
Representative edition published 2004
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Beast in View
Representative edition published 2002
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A stranger in my grave
Representative edition published 2002
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Antologia del Relato Policial (Aula de Literatura)
Representative edition published 2002
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Fragt morgen nach mir
Representative edition published 2002
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The Soft Talkers
Representative edition published 2001
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The cannibal heart
Representative edition published 2000
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Beyond This Point Are Monsters
Representative edition published 2000
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How like an angel
Representative edition published 2000
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Von hier an wird's gefährlich. Roman
Representative edition published 2000
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The devil loves me
Representative edition published 1999
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The iron gates
Representative edition published 1999
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Un étranger dans ma tombe
Representative edition published 1999
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The murder of Miranda
Representative edition published 1998
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Banshee, die Todesfee. Roman
Representative edition published 1998
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Der Mord von Miranda
Representative edition published 1998
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The soft talkers
Representative edition published 1997
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Ein Fremder liegt in meinem Grab. Roman
Representative edition published 1997
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Letzter Auftritt von Rose. Roman
Representative edition published 1994
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Mermaid
Representative edition published 1992
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Das eiserne Tor. Roman
Representative edition published 1992
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Vanish in an instant
Representative edition published 1989
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