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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1941
  • Latest Book:
    July 2018
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Full Series List in Order

Inspector Sands

1 - Wall of Eyes (1943)
2 - The Iron Gates ()

Paul Pyre

1 - The Invisible Worm (1941)
2 - The Weak-Eyed Bat (1942)
3 - The Devil Loves Me (1942)

A Rainbow Romance

29 - Fire Will Freeze (Feb-1967)

Tom Aragon

1 - Ask For Me Tomorrow (1976)
2 - The Murder of Miranda (1979)
3 - Mermaid (Dec-1981)

Book List in Order: 29 titles



    • / Amateur Sleuth
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    Margaret Millar's debut novel introduces readers to the psychiatrist Dr. Paul Prye, a cynical man of reason with a penchant for quoting William Blake and making enemies. When Prye finds himself first the suspect in a murder investigation and then...



    • / Amateur Sleuth
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    UNTIL DEATH DO US PART... Dr. Frye: I have arranged a little surprise for you. Knowing how interested you are in murders I have decided to give you one on your own doorstep, as it were. Don't be too flattered. I intended to do it anyway. ...




    • / Law Enforcement
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    “I’M COMING! WAIT FOR ME, KELSEY!” But Kelsey was running away from her, fleetly, as if she knew this dark wood well. “Kelsey! Wait for me…” She heard the soft laughing of birds from the branches, and a cry that throbbed into an ech...



  • Hailed as one of the greatest psychological mysteries ever written and winner of the 1956 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Novel, Beast in View remains as freshly sinister today as the day it was first published.  Thirty-year-old...



  • As the stranded vacationers slogged through the snow toward the house in the distance, two shots whizzed over their heads. In the doorway of the house a woman stood weeping. This was hardly her idea of a romantic ski resort, thought Isobel Seton, but...



  • “Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.” W.H. Auden A dark chain of evil inexorably strangles the lives of those involved: the spirited heroine, Charlotte Keating, a woman doctor; Violet O’Gorman, the innocent victim: Lewis...



  • TEMPTRESS IN TOWN Gordon Foster's activities took a sudden bounce off the track of his daily pattern of staid middle-class living when a girl asked him for a match in the lobby of a San Francisco hotel. In a matter of weeks, the girl, Ruby, f...



    • / Law Enforcement
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    Gilly Decker is rich, fifty and married to a human vegetable. Cut down by a stroke on their honeymoon, Marco has given up. He hungers only for pills and thirsts only for the fluid in the hypodermic needle. Gilly Decker has lost one husband and is...






    • / Law Enforcement
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    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 circulated among the ot...



  • Cleo Jasper, a beautiful woman in her early twenties, 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...



  • BLESSED ARE THE LIVING Martha O'Gorman's husband had walked out the door one rainy night five years ago and never come back. The police verdict was accidental death - but Patrick O'Gorman's body was never found. Now a stranger had come to town ...



  • The decomposed body of a much-loved eight-year-old Annamay Hyatt, is found in a wooded Creekside area. To an agonizing degree everyone concerned with Annamay feels responsible. To an even more agonizing degree, someone is. The effect of the child...



  • On a Saturday night in April, Ron Galloway's friends have all arrived at his Ontario lakeside vacation lodge for a boys' weekend without their wives. But as the night wears on and the host himself doesn't arrive, the party turns sour. The...



  • 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...



  • The investigation into the disappearance of a wealthy California rancher brings to light the secrets of a whole community in this haunting masterpiece of suspense On a small family ranch outside Boca de Rio, a California city just across the Mex...



  • The motives and prejudices of twelve jurors are on full display in the case of a Carribean yacht capitain who has been accused of murdering a wealthy white client for her jewelry.Twelve Santa Felicia County citizens have assembled for their civic dut...



  • A Fatal Vacation Amy Kellogg and Wilma Wyatt appeared simply to be two bored, wealthy American ladies on holiday in Mexico City. But when Wilma suddenly; inexplicably jumped to her death from her hotel window, the carefree vacation turned into tra...



  • Viginia Barkeley, spoiled child of a wealthy family, sat in a Michigan jail cell and refused to answer her lawyer's questions. Her husband knew that she had been out with Claude Margolis. Her mother knew that Virginia was capable of killing Margolis ...






  • What happened to Daisy Harker on Decemeber 2,1955? That was the date she had seen on the tombstone and yet she was still alive. The name on the grave was hers but whose was the body? Regardless of the lives that would be shattered by the truth, her i...



  • No hit-or-miss anthology, this first-rate collection of 25 contemporary mysteries offers a cross-section view of the American detective, suspense and mystery short-story worlds. Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene, gathers the works of such masters as To...



  • Out of print for decades, and extremely hard to find until now, Margaret Millar’s bestselling and only book-length foray into children’s literature stars a precocious (maybe pernicious) young girl named Priscilla, whose flair for the dramatic is ...



  • A MASTER OF SUSPENSE Margaret Millar (1915-1994) was an internationally popular author whose well-crafted and sharply-written books pioneered the subgenre of psychological suspense. In a nearly 50-year writing career which began in her native Canada...



  • In this complex and psychologically acute critique of the post-war family a husband’s paranoia concerning his young wife’s fidelity escalates just as she struggles to survive while surrounded by his oppressive insecurity.Martha and Charles Pearso...



  • Santa Barbara in the 1960s was home to two of the 20th century’s most important mystery writers, Margaret Millar and her husband, Ken (Ross Macdonald). It was also home to nearly 400 species of bird. This is the charming story of Ken and Maggie’s...



    • / Gothic
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    A New York family rent a house in California in the hope of a tranquil summer. Mark Banner is a young, successful publisher, and his wife Evelyn is afraid of losing him. When the owner of the house returns, Evelyn recognizes the enemy at first sight....



    • / Gothic
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    First Warning Your daughter takes too dangerous risks with her delicate body. Children must be guarded against the cruel hazards of life and fed good, nourishing food so their bones will be padded. Also clothing. You should put plenty of clothing ...



    • / Law Enforcement
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    PATHWAY TO MADNESS Lucille Morrow was a fortunate and happy woman. Though middle-aged, she retained the beauty of youth; her husband, a wealthy physician, was devoted to her; she was mistress of a large and charming home. Suddenly she was gone...



    • / Suspense
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    On a Saturday night in April, Ron Galloway's friends have all arrived at his Ontario lakeside vacation lodge for a boys' weekend without their wives. But as the night wears on and the host himself doesn't arrive, the party turns sour. The...





Award-Winning Books by Margaret Millar

Beast in View
1956 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Margaret Millar has published 29 books.

Margaret Millar does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Birds and the Beast Were There, was published in July 2018.

The first book by Margaret Millar, The Invisible Worm, was published in January 1941.

Yes. Margaret Millar has 4 series.