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Beast In View (Crime Masterworks)

Beast In View (Crime Masterworks)

by Margaret Millar (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

At thirty, Helen Clarvoe is only: her only visitors are the staff at the hotel where she lives, and her only phone calls come from a stranger. A stranger whose quiet, compelling voice lures the aloof and financially secure Miss Clarvoe into a world of extortion, pornography, vengeance, madness and murder...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 17 Oct 2002
ISBN 10: 0752851748
ISBN 13: 9780752851747
Book Overview: Winner of the 1955 Edgar award 'Dazzling...In the whole of crime fiction's distinguished sisterhood there is no one quite like Margaret Millar' Matthew Coady 'She is the very top rank of crime writers' Julian Symonds 'Consistently entertaining...[a] justly celebrated classic' Waterstone's Guide to Crime Fiction Beast in View is a brilliant whodunit and a deep, disturbing study of the dark places of the human psyche

Author Bio
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.