Beast In View

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 of the crime fiction genre.

Margaret Millar (1915-1994) was born in Ontario, Canada and was educated at Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto, majoring in Classics. In 1938 she married Kenneth Millar (who wrote under the name Ross Macdonald). She published her first novel, THE INVISIBLE WORM, in 1941 and she worked as a screenwriter for Warner Brothers. She was active in the conservation movement in California in the 1960s and was named a Woman of the Year by the Los Angeles Times in 1965 and in 1982 she became a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America.

A work of art - terrifyingly believable * NEW YORK TIMES * Millar was the master of the surprise ending (exemplified in BEAST IN VIEW) * INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY * Superb ... BEAST IN VIEW is cunningly plotted and has an ingenious final twist * MAIL ON SUNDAY * Deeply creepy -- Megan Abbott A wonderfully creepy and terrifying slice of noir * CATHOLIC HERALD * Margaret Millar is surely one of late 20th century crime writer's best writers... the prose is of superb quality... But it is the use to which Mrs Millar puts her strongly imagined words that makes this book so exceptional -- H R F Keating She is the very top rank of crime writers -- Julian Symons Dazzling ... In the whole of crime fiction's distinguished sisterhood there is no one quite like Margaret Millar -- Matthew Coady Consistently entertaining... a justly celebrated classic * WATERSTONES GUIDE TO CRIME FICTION * Steadily mounting horror! * WASHINGTON STAR * Warrants the highest recommendation on all scores * NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE * Millar was the master of the surprise ending (exemplified in BEAST IN VIEW) -- Christopher Fowler * INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY * Superb ... BEAST IN VIEW is cunningly plotted and has an ingenious final twist -- Simon Shaw * MAIL ON SUNDAY * A wonderfully crepy and terrifying slice of noir * CATHOLIC HERALD *