Margaret Millar
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
The quintessential Hollywood mystery novel—clever, humorous, and thoroughly Hitchcockian—a faded actress’s death sows chaos among a quirky set of characters in the nervous hills of California.
Rose’s best days are behind her. No longer does she star on the silver screen, and her drinking and money troubles have eroded her wealth and societal status. Rose has no friends in the world except for a nosy landlord and...
Rose’s best days are behind her. No longer does she star on the silver screen, and her drinking and money troubles have eroded her wealth and societal status. Rose has no friends in the world except for a nosy landlord and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jim and Daisy Harker are a young, well-to-do Californian couple, and though childless they maintain the sort of domestic happiness that others can only aspire to. But a darkness exists at the outer edges of Daisy's mind and she has no idea why it's there. In a series of recurring nightmares she wanders a cemetery, eventually finding her own gravestone. According to the dream, December 2nd, 1955 is the day she died. Street smart but honorable, Stevens...
Author
Language
English
Description
At thirty, Helen Clarvoe is alone: her only visitors are the staff at the hotel where she lives, and her only phone calls come from a stranger. Until that stranger, with a quiet, compelling voice, lures the aloof and financially secure Miss Clarvoe into a world of extortion, pornography, vengeance, madness and murder. But who is the hunter and who is the victim...? A gothic chiller which still feels incredibly modern, BEAST IN VIEW is a true classic...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Virginia Barkeley is a nice, well brought-up girl. So what is she doing wandering through a snow storm in the middle of the night, blind drunk and covered in someone else's blood? When Claude Margolis' body is found a quarter of a mile away with half-a-dozen stab wounds to the neck, suddenly Virginia doesn't seem such a nice girl after all. Her only hope is Meecham, the cynical small-town lawyer hired as her defence. But how can he believe in Virginia's...
Author
Publisher
Syndicate Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Perhaps no other installment in Collected Millar displays the staggering variety of form and ranging interests of Margaret Millar as the present volume. On one end readers will find her final two mystery novels, which display the hallmarks of the writer in her heyday; the sharp social commentary and poignant black humor both well-couched in a brilliantly devised plot. The other end of the collection sees her collected shorter works, which includes...
6) Spider webs
Author
Publisher
William Morrow and Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
"In Santa Felicia County, California, Cully Paul King, an attractive Caribbean captain of a private yacht -- a black man, a ladies' man -- is on trial for first-degree murder. Madeline Pherson, a married woman whose body was found in the ocean, wrapped in kelp, was last seen on Cully's boat, Bewitched. Cully is accused of killing her for her jewelry, which she kept in a green box that has mysteriously disappeared." --
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
Description
"Miranda Shaw was a rich and recent widow in her early fifties. The head lifeguard at the Penguin Beach Club, Grady Keaton, was exactly half her age. When Grady and Miranda dropped out of sight at the same time, rumors began to circulate among the other members and employees of the club. And when Admiral Young's two somewhat addled daughters, Cordelia and Juliet, spotted some of Miranda's jewels at an estate auction, the rumors darkened and the hunt...
8) Mermaid
Author
Publisher
William Morrow and Company, Inc
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
"Cleo Jasper, a beautiful woman in her early twenties, inexplicably drops out of sight while attending an exclusive school for retarded young people. Shortly before her disappearance she had gone to the office of Tom Aragon, a young Hispanic lawyer, for what seems to have been a trivial reason. Cleo's older brother, Hilton, hires Aragon to find the vulnerable girl and bring her back home ..." --
Series
Library of America ; 269
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
These four stories examine isolated crimes within society that not only breed murder but destructive suspicions.
Publisher
KCRW
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The writers whose stories are dramatized in KCRW's "More Mean Streets USA" range from a semi-legendary figure from the Jazz Age, to some of the most skillful storytellers of the post-World War II years, to the fastest-rising genre-stars of today and tomorrow. This all new, thrilling and engrossing 8-hour production from KCRW own studios features newly recorded detective stories by contemporary and classic hard-boiled mystery writers. Stories by Walter...
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A salute to the real femmes fatales of the domestic suspense genre, and the deceitful children, deranged husbands, vengeful friends, and murderous wives they unleashed. Sarah Weinman, one of today's preeminent authorities of crime fiction, brings together fourteen chilling stories by women who -- from the 1940s through the mid-1970s -- took a scalpel to contemporary society and sliced away to revel its dark essence.
