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Margaret Millar Boeken

    5 februari 1915 – 26 maart 1994

    Margaret Ellis Millar was een schrijfster van mysterie- en suspenseromans, wier werken zich onderscheiden door verfijnde karakterisering, waarbij ze het complexe innerlijke leven van haar personages met een bijna literaire kwaliteit verkende. Ze verdiepte zich in thema's als klasseverschillen, onzekerheid, mislukte ambities, eenzaamheid en existentiële isolatie, waarmee ze het typische mysteriegenre oversteeg. Haar romans, vaak met ingenieuze verrassende eindes, worden gewaardeerd om hun psychologische diepgang en subtiele weergaven van menselijke interactie, die boeiend blijven, zelfs als de afloop bekend is. Millar was een pionier in het intelligent behandelen van de vrouwelijke psychologie en bood een volwassen perspectief op maatschappelijke kwesties en morele codes.

    Margaret Millar
    A Stranger in My Grave
    Vanish in an Instant
    The Listening Walls
    Beast in View
    The Soft Talkers
    The Birds and the Beasts Were There: The Joys of Birdwatching and Wildlife Observation in California's Richest Habitat

    • The Birds and the Beasts Were There: The Joys of Birdwatching and Wildlife Observation in California's Richest Habitat

      • 242bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen
      4,5(2)Tarief

      Set against the backdrop of 1960s Santa Barbara, this narrative follows the journey of renowned mystery writers Margaret Millar and her husband Ken (Ross Macdonald) as they embark on an adventure to observe nearly 400 species of birds. Blending their passion for literature with a love for nature, the story captures their unique quest and the charm of their surroundings.

      The Birds and the Beasts Were There: The Joys of Birdwatching and Wildlife Observation in California's Richest Habitat

    • The Soft Talkers

      4,0(21)Tarief

      A Canadian businessman living near Toronto disappears on the eve of a fishing trip with friends. Is he dead? Has he been the lover of his wife's best friend? Soon these questions appear to be answered...

      The Soft Talkers

    • Beast in View

      3,9(63)Tarief

      Helen Clarvoe, a wealthy recluse, receives a threatening call from someone who claims to know her, and she asks Mr. Blackshear, one of her late father's advisors, to investigate

      Beast in View

    • The Listening Walls

      3,9(45)Tarief

      A rediscovered classic of American noir - a suspenseful masterpiece about corrupted love, from one of crime writing's greatest talents

      The Listening Walls

    • Vanish in an Instant

      3,7(74)Tarief

      A rediscovered classic of American noir from one of crime writing's greatest talents

      Vanish in an Instant

    • A Stranger in My Grave

      3,6(44)Tarief

      Young housewife Daisy Harker's world is upended when a blank spot in her memory and a reoccurring nightmare link her to an unsolved murder and a decades-old conspiracy.

      A Stranger in My Grave

    • Collected Millar: The Master at Her Zenith: Vanish in an Instant; Wives and Lovers; Beast in View; An Air That Kills; The Listening Walls

      • 576bladzijden
      • 21 uur lezen

      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. 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

      Collected Millar: The Master at Her Zenith: Vanish in an Instant; Wives and Lovers; Beast in View; An Air That Kills; The Listening Walls