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Margaret Millar (1915–1994)

Auteur van Beast in View

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Margaret Millar (1915-1994) was horn 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, toon meer in 1941 and she worked as a screenwriter for Warner Brothers. It was her 1955 novel, Beast in View, that won Millar the coveted Edgarsup/sup Award for Best Novel and the boob was later adapted for the Alfred Hitchcock Hour. She was active in the environmental conservation movement in California in the 1960s and was named a Woman of the Year by the Los Angeles Times in 1965, and in 1983 she became a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. toon minder

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Beast in View (1955) 401 exemplaren
Een vreemde in mijn graf (1960) 243 exemplaren
De mooipraters (1957) 157 exemplaren
The Iron Gates (1945) 137 exemplaren
Net een engel (1962) 133 exemplaren
De kindervriend (1964) 131 exemplaren
Beyond this Point are Monsters (1970) 127 exemplaren
Wall of eyes (1959) 125 exemplaren
De man van mevrouw Decker (1976) 119 exemplaren
Vanish in an Instant (1952) 94 exemplaren
The Murder of Miranda (1979) 83 exemplaren
Rose's Last Summer (1952) 81 exemplaren
Muren hebben ogen (1943) 74 exemplaren
Fire Will Freeze (1944) 74 exemplaren
Do Evil in Return (1950) 73 exemplaren
Mermaid (1982) 64 exemplaren
Banshee de doodsgeest (1983) 63 exemplaren
Spider Webs (1986) 56 exemplaren
The Cannibal Heart (1949) 37 exemplaren
Wives and Lovers (1954) 32 exemplaren
The Devil Loves Me (1942) 28 exemplaren
It's All in the Family (1948) 21 exemplaren
Experiment in Springtime (1947) 12 exemplaren
The Invisible Worm (1941) 10 exemplaren
The Weak-Eyed Bat (1942) 4 exemplaren
El Maligno (1964) 2 exemplaren
Sólo monstruos 1 exemplaar
A CAIXA DE PRATA 1 exemplaar
VIDA POR VIDA 1 exemplaar
Muro de ojos 1 exemplaar
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Gangbare naam
Millar, Margaret
Officiële naam
Millar, Margaret Ellis
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Sturm, Margaret Ellis
Geboortedatum
1915-02-05
Overlijdensdatum
1994-03-26
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
Canada
Geboorteplaats
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Plaats van overlijden
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Woonplaatsen
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Los Angeles, California, USA
Montecito, California, USA
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Opleiding
University of Toronto (1936)
Beroepen
novelist
screenwriter
mystery writer
Relaties
Macdonald, Ross (husband)
Organisaties
Mystery Writers of America (President, 1957-1958)
National Audubon Society
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
MWA Grand Master (1983)
Korte biografie
Margaret Ellis Sturm, born in Canada, moved to the USA after marrying writer Kenneth Millar (who used the pen name Ross Macdonald) in 1938. They lived for many years in Santa Barbara, California, which often appears as a locale in her books under the pseudonyms San Felice or Santa Felicia. She published her first novel in 1941 and went on to write popular mysteries and non-mystery novels. Her autobiography appeared in 1968.

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I read it in one sitting, starting after dinner and going past midnight. I couldn't put it down!
 
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blueskygreentrees | 1 andere bespreking | Dec 19, 2023 |
Crime Novels: Four Classic Thrillers 1964-1969 is a wonderful snapshot of how the genre was evolving during this time frame. The novels are classics and having them together in one volume takes the reader back to the late 60s. Some of my general comments here will resemble what I wrote for the volume covering 1961-1964 since they have the same goals.

Collections like this I generally rate as a whole based on their purpose rather than, for instance, a collection of stories recently written that are presented to the world for the first time. In other words, while I think about how good they are I am more concerned with how representative they are of the time period. And on that note, I think this volume succeeds very well.

I preferred this volume to the one covering the previous few years for purely personal reasons. This is the time frame during which I started reading a lot of mysteries and thrillers. The summer between 3rd and 4th grade my mother, trying to keep me from getting into (too much) trouble, challenged me to see which of us could read the stack of old, as well as the new issues we got, magazines. Ellery Queen, Michael Shayne, and Alfred Hitchcock mystery magazines. I've been a fan since and loved the shift from hardboiled to, well, more psychological, more backstory of criminals rather than always a straightforward whodunit. This collection highlights that shift very well.

I had read all of these previously but only remembered Run Man Run and The Tremor of Forgery in any detail, so revisiting all of them was great fun. Himes' work is a reflection of society still.

Some may find these novels "dated." I won't say I disagree, but any work of fiction that utilizes the society contemporary to the writing as an element in the story is going to be, by definition, dated. That is neither a positive nor a negative, to treat it as either is pointless beyond simply being a personal reason to not like it. In fact, in a collection that seeks to highlight how a genre was evolving during a time period, datedness is a positive attribute.

I would recommend this collection to any readers of crime fiction who enjoy good storytelling, these novels can each stand as an excellent example of crime fiction. For those who like to know how their favorite genre has developed over the years, this will give you a glimpse at the time when it was swinging from hardboiled private detectives to more psychologically, and sociologically, driven narratives, a trend started in the early part of the decade.

Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.
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pomo58 | Aug 5, 2023 |
This thriller/mystery isn't of the style I generally prefer (too dark & creepy) but it is extremely well written and the ending came as a complete surprise to me.
 
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leslie.98 | 20 andere besprekingen | Jun 27, 2023 |
Most of what you could want in a book of the type. Taut, pacy, tense, bit of humour, good characters. Bit dated in places but hard to fault it for that. Only missing a truly satisfying denouement. Not entirely sure the plot adds up but I did read it across two plane rides so quite possibly the fault is mine.
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