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Beast in View
Margaret Millar
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Description for Beast in View
Paperback. A classic whodunit and a deep, disturbing study of the dark places of the human psyche.. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 176.
A classic whodunit and a deep, disturbing study of the dark places of the human psyche... 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, ... Read more
A classic whodunit and a deep, disturbing study of the dark places of the human psyche... 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780220222
SKU
V9781780220222
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99-50
About Margaret Millar
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Beast in View
A wonderfully crepy and terrifying slice of noir
CATHOLIC HERALD
Superb ... Beast in View is cunningly plotted and has an ingenious final twist
Simon Shaw
MAIL ON SUNDAY
Millar was the mast of the surprise ending (exemplified in Beast in View)
Christopher Fowler
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
CATHOLIC HERALD
Superb ... Beast in View is cunningly plotted and has an ingenious final twist
Simon Shaw
MAIL ON SUNDAY
Millar was the mast of the surprise ending (exemplified in Beast in View)
Christopher Fowler
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY