Order of Margaret Millar Books
Margaret Millar was an American-Canadian suspense and mystery writer who was highly recognized at the time. She was the recipient of the lifetime achievement award, the Grand Master Award by the Mystery Writers of America. Millar was known for her excellent characterization and her mature look at the psychology of her characters.
Millar was born in Berlin, Ontario in 1915. She would go to college at the Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto before moving to the United States after marrying her husband. The couple would move to California and it was there that she would do her writing and build her career. Her novel, Best in View was adapted for the TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Publication Order of Paul Prye Books
| The Invisible Worm | (1941) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Weak-Eyed Bat | (1942) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Devil Loves Me | (1942) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Inspector Sands Books
| Wall Of Eyes | (1943) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Iron Gates | (1945) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Tom Aragon Books
| Ask for Me Tomorrow | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Murder of Miranda | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mermaid | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Fire Will Freeze | (1944) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Experiment in Springtime | (1947) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| It's All in the Family | (1948) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Cannibal Heart | (1949) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Do Evil in Return | (1950) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Vanish in an Instant | (1952) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rose's Last Summer / The Lively Corpse | (1952) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wives and Lovers | (1954) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Beast In View | (1955) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Soft Talkers / An Air That Kills | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Listening Walls | (1959) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Stranger in My Grave | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| How Like an Angel | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Fiend | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Beyond This Point Are Monsters | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Banshee | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Spider Webs | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Collections
| The Couple Next Door | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The Birds and the Beasts Were There | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Akashic Noir Books
If You Like Margaret Millar Books, You’ll Love…
Beast in View may be Millar’s best known work and it is also an Edgar Award winner. The book follows thirty-year-old Helen Clarvoe who is all alone. She’s a shut-in who is not close to her family and survives of her family’s money with the only one close to her being the family’s attorney. A series of prank phone calls send her spiraling and running to the attorney for help. At first he doesn’t believe her, but he quickly realizes just how dangerous this situation is.
Another good book by Millar is The Listening Walls. Amy Kellogg is on vacation in Mexico, but she’s having a hard time as she keeps fighting with her freind Wilma. She wants to go home, but before she can Wilma is found dead outside of the hotel room and the authorities think it’s a suicide. Amy is traumatized by the incident and takes a holiday in New York – without her husband Robert. Her brother has his worries and when Amy’s stay drags on for months, the suspicions grow to a breaking point in the family.
