Beast In View

A work of art - terrifyingly believable * NEW YORK TIMES *Millar was the master of the surprise ending (exemplified in BEAST IN VIEW) * INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY *Superb … BEAST IN VIEW is cunningly plotted and has an ingenious final twist * MAIL ON SUNDAY *Deeply creepy – Megan AbbottA wonderfully creepy and terrifying slice of noir * CATHOLIC HERALD *Margaret Millar is surely one of late 20th century crime writer’s best writers… the prose is of superb quality… But it is the use to which Mrs Millar puts her strongly imagined words that makes this book so exceptional – H R F KeatingShe is the very top rank of crime writers – Julian SymonsDazzling … In the whole of crime fiction’s distinguished sisterhood there is no one quite like Margaret Millar – Matthew CoadyConsistently entertaining… a justly celebrated classic * WATERSTONES GUIDE TO CRIME FICTION *Steadily mounting horror! * WASHINGTON STAR *Warrants the highest recommendation on all scores * NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE *Millar was the master of the surprise ending (exemplified in BEAST IN VIEW) – Christopher Fowler * INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY *Superb … BEAST IN VIEW is cunningly plotted and has an ingenious final twist – Simon Shaw * MAIL ON SUNDAY *A wonderfully crepy and terrifying slice of noir * CATHOLIC HERALD *

Margaret Millar (1915-1994) was born in Ontario, Canada and was educated at Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto, majoring in Classics. In 1938 she married Kenneth Millar (who wrote under the name Ross Macdonald). She published her first novel, THE INVISIBLE WORM, in 1941 and she worked as a screenwriter for Warner Brothers. She was active in the conservation movement in California in the 1960s and was named a Woman of the Year by the Los Angeles Times in 1965 and in 1982 she became a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America.

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