Margaret Millar (1915-1994) was the author of 27 books and a masterful pioneer of psychological mysteries and thrillers. Born in Kitchener, Ontario, she spent most of her life in Santa Barbara, California, with her husband Ken Millar, who is better known by his nom de plume of Ross Macdonald. Her 1956 novel Beast in View won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel. In 1965 Millar was the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year Award and in 1983 the Mystery Writers of America awarded her the Grand Master Award for Lifetime Achievement. Millar's cutting wit and superb plotting have left her an enduring legacy as one of the most important crime writers of both her own and subsequent generations.
PRAISE FOR COLLECTED MILLAR
"A writer whose own work is every bit as psychologically bruising
and critically acclaimed as that of her husband [Ross Macdonald],
if not as well known. But [Syndicate Books] hopes to rectify that
with Collected Millar."
—Kevin Burton Smith, Mystery Scene Magazine
"Razor-sharp."
—The Seattle Times
PRAISE FOR MARGARET MILLAR
Mystery Writers of America Grand Master
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel
Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year
“One of the most original and vital voices in all of American crime
fiction.”
—Laura Lippman
“I long ago changed my writing name to Ross Macdonald for obvious
reasons.”
—Kenneth Millar (Ross Macdonald), in a letter to the Toronto
Saturday Night newspaper
“Very Original.”
—Agatha Christie
"Stunningly original."
—Val McDermid
“She has few peers, and no superior in the art of
bamboozlement.”
—Julian Symons
“Written with such complete realization of every character that the
most bitter antagonist of mystery fiction may be forced to
acknowledge it as a work of art.”
—Anthony Boucher reviewing Beast in View for the New
York Times
“Margaret Millar can build up the sensation of fear so strongly
that at the end it literally hits you like a battering ram.”
—BBC
“Wonderfully ingenious.”
—The New Yorker
“Brilliantly superlative… One of the most impressive additions to
mystery literature—and the word “literature” is used in its fullest
sense.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“In the whole of crime fiction’s distinguished sisterhood, there is
no one quite like Margaret Millar.”
—The Guardian
“A superb writer.”
—H.R.F. Keating
“She writes minor classics.”
—Washington Post
“Mrs. Millar doesn't attract fans she creates addicts.”
—Dilys Winn, namesake of the Dilys Award
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