Margaret Ellis Millar était une auteure de romans policiers et de thrillers dont les œuvres se distinguent par une caractérisation sophistiquée, explorant la vie intérieure complexe de ses personnages avec une qualité quasi littéraire. Elle abordait des thèmes tels que la classe sociale, l'insécurité, les ambitions déçues, la solitude et l'isolement existentiel, transcendant ainsi le genre du mystère habituel. Ses romans, souvent dotés d'intelligentes fins surprenantes, sont appréciés pour leur profondeur psychologique et leurs subtiles représentations de l'interaction humaine, qui restent captivants même lorsque le dénouement est connu. Millar fut une pionnière dans l'exploration intelligente de la psychologie féminine, offrant une perspective mature sur les questions sociétales et les codes moraux.
Set against the backdrop of 1960s Santa Barbara, this narrative follows the journey of renowned mystery writers Margaret Millar and her husband Ken (Ross Macdonald) as they embark on an adventure to observe nearly 400 species of birds. Blending their passion for literature with a love for nature, the story captures their unique quest and the charm of their surroundings.
A Canadian businessman living near Toronto disappears on the eve of a fishing trip with friends. Is he dead? Has he been the lover of his wife's best friend? Soon these questions appear to be answered...
Helen Clarvoe, a wealthy recluse, receives a threatening call from someone who claims to know her, and she asks Mr. Blackshear, one of her late father's advisors, to investigate
A rediscovered classic of American noir - a suspenseful masterpiece about corrupted love, from one of crime writing's greatest talents
A rediscovered classic of American noir from one of crime writing's greatest talents
Young housewife Daisy Harker's world is upended when a blank spot in her memory and a reoccurring nightmare link her to an unsolved murder and a decades-old conspiracy.
In 1950s America the men are back to work and the women are home raising a new generation. The war is over and the boom is on. Everyone is happy. It is to this myth of the perfect American family that novelist Margaret Millar applied her scalpel. This volume includes five of Millar's novels of the 1950s, among her best-known works of literary suspense as well as some of the most compulsively readable, please-leave-a-light-on thrillers ever put to paper
