{"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-isbn-9781681990279","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","description":"\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.\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eCOLLECTED MILLAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of 2016\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Millar's mysteries are filled with clever twists, yet what makes them special is her surgical approach to her characters' inner lives. She's got an eagle eye for the juicy stuff lots of mystery writers still ignore—questions of class, status, sexual desire and the difficult position of women. This last was something she knew about firsthand. Millar's work was long overshadowed by that of her husband, detective novelist Ross Macdonald. In fact, her best novels — like 1955's \u003ci\u003eBeast in View\u003c\/i\u003e — have a ferocious edge that make him look rather tame.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—John Powers, NPR's Fresh Air\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the greatest this country has ever produced.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Millar] writes with care and devises clever plots, holding back plenty of surprises until she is ready to let the reader know... She exhibits a virtuoso talent for creating distinct identities for her characters, even if they  might have more than one identity.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The Buffalo News\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A writer whose own work is every bit as psychologically bruising and critically acclaimed as that of her husband [Ross Macdonald], if not as well known. But [Syndicate Books] hopes to rectify that with \u003ci\u003eCollected Millar\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kevin Burton Smith, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMystery Scene Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Razor-sharp.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The Seattle Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A major project.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Classic, taut, original prose.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Campus Circle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRAISE FOR MARGARET MILLAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMystery Writers of America Grand Master\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Woman of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the most original and vital voices in all of American crime fiction.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Laura Lippman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“I long ago changed my writing name to Ross Macdonald for obvious reasons.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kenneth Millar (Ross Macdonald), in a letter to the \u003ci\u003eToronto Saturday Night\u003c\/i\u003e newspaper\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Very Original.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Agatha Christie\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stunningly original.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Val McDermid\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“She has few peers, and no superior in the art of bamboozlement.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eJulian Symons\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Written with such complete realization of every character that the most bitter antagonist of mystery fiction may be forced to acknowledge it as a work of art.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eAnthony Boucher reviewing \u003ci\u003eBeast in View\u003c\/i\u003e for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Margaret Millar can build up the sensation of fear so strongly that at the end it literally hits you like a battering ram.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eBBC\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Wonderfully ingenious.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eThe New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Brilliantly superlative… One of the most impressive additions to mystery literature—and the word “literature” is used in its fullest sense.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In the whole of crime fiction’s distinguished sisterhood, there is no one quite like Margaret Millar.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eThe Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A superb writer.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eH.R.F. Keating\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“She writes minor classics.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eWashington Post   \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mrs. Millar doesn't attract fans she creates addicts.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eDilys Winn, namesake of the Dilys Award\u003c\/b\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.","brand":"Soho Syndicate","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304766460133,"sku":"NP9781681990279","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681990279.jpg?v=1767723905","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/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-isbn-9781681990279","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}