{"product_id":"collected-millar-the-master-at-her-zenith-vanish-in-an-instant-wives-and-lovers-beast-in-view-an-air-that-kills-the-listening-walls-paperback-by-margaret-millar","title":"Collected Millar: The Master at Her Zenith: Vanish in an Instant; Wives and Lovers; Beast in View; An Air That Kills; The Listening Walls Paperback by Margaret Millar","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eSoho Syndicate\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2016-09-13)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e576\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781681990279\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e589.68\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e22.86 x 15.24 x 3.81\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFive acclaimed novels from the Golden Age of Suspense, including the Edgar Award-Winning Novel \u003ci\u003eBeast in View\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eIntroduction by Tom Nolan\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eVANISH IN AN INSTANT (1952)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this classic noir tale of blurred guilt and flawed innocence, a cynical lawyer uncovers the desperate lives of a group connected only by a gruesome murder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWIVES AND LOVERS (1954)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A sincere and compassionate novel about the complications of married life, and the love, loathing, pain, loyalty, disappointments and friendship that grow out of a marriage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBEAST IN VIEW (1955) – Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hailed as one of the greatest psychological mysteries ever written and winner of the 1956 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Novel, \u003ci\u003eBeast in View\u003c\/i\u003e remains as freshly sinister today as the day it was first published.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAN AIR THAT KILLS (1957)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When Ron Galloway never arrives at a boys' weekend fishing retreat, it becomes increasingly clear that something terrible has befallen him. Was he a victim of his own lust? Or of someone else's greed?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTHE LISTENING WALLS (1959)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this suspenseful masterpiece about corrupted love, Rupert Kellogg's wife, Amy, goes missing after an ill-fated trip to Mexico—and Rupert becomes the focus of a paranoid investigation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003eMargaret Millar (1915-1994) was the author of 27 books and a masterful pioneer of psychological mysteries and thrillers. Born in Kitchener, Ontario, she spent most of her life in Santa Barbara, California, with her husband Ken Millar, who is better known by his nom de plume of Ross Macdonald. Her 1956 novel Beast in View won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel. In 1965 Millar was the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year Award and in 1983 the Mystery Writers of America awarded her the Grand Master Award for Lifetime Achievement. Millar's cutting wit and superb plotting have left her an enduring legacy as one of the most important crime writers of both her own and subsequent generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46556262826145,"sku":"BBSNIJ9781681990279","price":19.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9781681990279.jpg?v=1781810763","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/collected-millar-the-master-at-her-zenith-vanish-in-an-instant-wives-and-lovers-beast-in-view-an-air-that-kills-the-listening-walls-paperback-by-margaret-millar","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}