Margaret Millar: Beast in View (USA 2015)

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Hailed as one of the greatest psychological mysteries ever written and winner of the 1956 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Novel, Beast in View remains as freshly sinister today as the day it was first published.

Thirty-year-old Helen Clarvoe is scared and all alone. The heiress of a small fortune, she is resented by her mother and, to a lesser degree, her brother. The only person who seemingly cares for her is the family's attorney, Paul Blackshear. A shut-in, Helen maintains her residence in upscale hotel downtown.

But passive-aggressive resentment isn't the only thing hounding Helen Clarvoe. A string of bizarre and sometimes threatening prank phone calls has upended her spinster's routine. Increasingly threatened, she turns to a reluctant Mr. Blackshear to get to the bottom of these strange calls. Originally doubtful of their seriousness, Blackshear quickly realizes that he is in the midst of something far more nightmarish than he thought possible. As he unravels the mystery behind the calls the identity behind them slowly emerges, predatory and treacherous.

Margaret Millar: Beast in View. Soho Press, ISBN: 9781681990125 (December, 2015), eBook, 0.99 MB (ca. 256 p.), $4.99.

Margaret Millar: Beast in View (UK 2011)

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'I have a crystal ball. I see you now. Real bright and clear. You've been in an accident. Your forehead is gashed, your mouth is bleeding... A cry for help rose in Miss Clarvoe's throat. Help me someone!'

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. A stranger whose quiet, compelling voice lures the aloof and wealthy Miss Clarvoe into a world of extortion, pornography, vengeance, madness and murder.

Beast in View is a brilliant, classic whodunit, a deeply disturbing look into the dark places of the human psyche...

Margaret Millar: Beast in View. Phoenix, ISBN: 9781780220222 (August, 2011), 170 p., &poun;7.99.

Margaret Millar: Beast in View (USA 2000)

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A psychological thriller by a mistress of suspense at the top of her form.
BEAST IN VIEW
MARGARET MILLAR
What starts with a crank call from an old school chum sets the lonely, aloof, financially comfortable Miss Helen Clarvoe on a path as inevitable as destiny and as predictable only as madness. Lured from her rooms in a tacky, second-rate residential Hollywood hotel by the quiet but compelling voice on her telephone, the hapless Miss Clarvoe finds herself stranded in an increasingly more perilous terrain of extortion, pornography, vengeance, and murder.

"A dazzling conjuring trick... In the whole of Crime Fiction's distinguished sisterhood there is no one quite like Margaret Millar." -- Matthew Coady
"She is the very top rank of crime writers." -- Julian Symons

Margaret Millar, author of A Stranger in My Grave and How Like an Angel, began her career of more than four decades in 1942 with The Devil Loves Me. In 1983 she was awarded the Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement by the Mystery Writers of America.

Margaret Millar: Beast in View. Carroll & Graf, ISBN: 0786706678 (January, 2000), 137 p., $5.95.

Margaret Millar: Beast in View (USA 1984)

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DOUBLE EDGAR WINNER
In 1956 the Mystery Writers of America gave BEAST IN VIEW its coveted Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel of the year. In 1983 author Margaret Millar received the MWA'S most prestigious honor, the Grand Master Award, for lifetime achievement.

"A work of art" - Anthony Boucher, The New York Times
"No woman in twentieth-century American mystery writing is more important than Margaret Millar." -- Dorothy B. Hughes, Consumers' Guide/WHODUNIT?

With a new introduction and afterword written by the author especially for this edition.

Margaret Millar: Beast in View. International Polygonics, ISBN: 0930330072 (February, 1984), Library of Crime Classics, 249 p., $4.95.

Margaret Millar: Beast in View (UK 1967)

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Evelyn Merrick was pretty, evil and diabolically clever. Her first victim she drove to suicide Her second was found murdered -- a pair of scissors thrust deep into the base of his throat. For the third victim she reserved a punishment far worse.

"An eerily horrifying tour de force. I picked this up to glance at while getting dressed, and an hour later was still sitting on the edge of my bed reading avidly." -- Francis lles in The Sunday Times
"Concusses you with a last minute surprise." -- Maurice Richardson in The Observer

Margaret Millar: Beast in View. She was beautiful and evil - she murdered minds as well as bodies. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1967, Hodder Paperbacks #835, 190 p., 3'6.

Margaret Millar: Beast in View (USA 1966)

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BEAUTIFUL, SEDUCTIVE, DEADLY EVELYN MERRICK IS ONE OF THE MOST HORRIBLY FASCINATING HEROINES IN SUSPENSE FICTION.
Her first victim escaped with her life, but with permanent scars left on her mind. The second she drove to suicide. The third she killed with her bare hands. For the fourth she reserved a punishment that was far worse than murder...

BEAST IN VIEW
"TOPS IN TERROR." -- Pittsburgh Press
"MYSTERY, HORROR, SUSPENSE - EVERYTHING." -- Wilmington News

Margaret Millar: Beast in View. She was beautiful and evil - she murdered minds as well as bodies. Bantam Gothic Novel #H3131 (March, 1966), 202 p., ¢60.