Margaret Millar

Private detective Joe Quinn gambles. That's how he's lost his job, car, clothes, and girlfriend; it's why he's hitchhiking from Reno to California....

Two women travel together. One mysteriously falls to her death from a balcony in a Mexico City hotel. The other returns to San Francisco and then disappears....

Margaret Millar's husband, Kenneth, who wrote under the name of Ross Macdonald, received more attention for his Lew Archer books, but her equally noteworthy mysteries are among the best of the genre....

Margaret Millar is somewhat of a hidden treasure among American "mystery writers"....

Cleo Jasper, a beautiful woman in her early 20s drops out of sight while attending an exclusive school for the learning disabled....

Dr. Prye, 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....

Lucille Morrow was blessed -- a beautiful woman with a devoted husband....

Isobel Seton, a witty New Yorker, is riding to a lodge in the wilds of Quebec in the middle of a blizzard....

There are worse crimes than murder....

A New York family rents a house in California hoping for tranquil summer....

When Miranda Shaw, rich and recently widowed, and Grady Keaton, the head lifeguard at the Penguin Beach Club, drop out of sight at the same time....

Beyond This Point Are Monsters is a model of taut, credible, completely contained plotting, and a book with full marks for entertainment....

A yacht captain is on trial for murdering a woman he hired with more than the boat's cooking in mind....

When Rose French, a former silent film star best known for periodic binges and recently leaving her fifth husband, is found dead, only Frank Clyde, a friend and social worker, believes it was murder....