Margaret Millar has 9 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 9 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 4 ratings. The most-rated is Beast in View.
Beast in View
Summary
At 30, 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.
©1955 Margaret Millar; copyright © 1983 Margaret Millar Charitable Remainder Unitrust (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
A Stranger in My Grave
Summary
Margaret Millar is somewhat of a hidden treasure among American "mystery writers". (She was originally from Canada, but her many years of living in California with her writer-husband Ross McDonald give us Americans a claim on her.) What makes her unusual and special within the genre is the way so many of her novels subtly and eloquently examine the emotional toll taken on people by the small things that haunt their lives, create inner conflict or despair.
©1960 Margaret Millar Survivor's Trust (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
The Fiend
Summary
There are worse crimes than murder. "It may well be the finest example to date of the fusion of the novel of character and the puzzle of suspense." (Anthony Boucher, The New York Times) When first published, The Fiend was nominated for an Edgar by the Mystery Writers of America.
©1964 Margaret Millar (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
The Murder of Miranda
Summary
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, rumors begin to circulate among the other members and employees of the club. And when Miranda's jewels are spotted in an estate auction, the rumors turn ugly, and Tom Aragon is called in to search for the missing couple.Tom Aragon. The engaging young Chicano lawyer who solved the bizarre mystery in Ask for Me Tomorrow has to take an even stranger case with the highly dubious assistance of a nine-year-old monster named Frederic Quinn, who claims he has Mafia connections at his exclusive private school.Award-winning novelist Margaret Millar is at her daffiest and deadliest in The Murder of Miranda.
©1979 Margaret Millar Survivor's Trust (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
The Iron Gates
Summary
Lucille Morrow was blessed -- a beautiful woman with a devoted husband. One day a mysterious messenger delivered a package, and suddenly Lucille Morrow was gone. Dominated by fear, she committed herself into an asylum. Searching for the cause, Inspector Sands follows a long trail which takes him to an abyss of horror, murder and retribution the likes of which he's never seen.
©1945 Margaret Millar (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
How Like an Angel
Summary
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. At The Tower, a back-country compound housing a religious cult, Quinn gambles again, when Sister Blessing asks him to locate one Patrick O'Gorman. It proves to be no easy task: O'Gorman's dead - and, Quinn wagers, not so accidentally as everyone insists.
©1962 Margaret Millar (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
Rose's Last Summer
Summary
When Rose French, a former silent film star best known for periodic binges and recently leaving her fifth husband, is found dead in a deserted garden, only Frank Clyde, a friend and social worker, believes it was murder. His subsequent investigation of the local natives of Santa Barbara is both suspenseful and hilarious. Millar does it again.
©1952, 1980 Margaret Millar Survivor's Trust (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
The Listening Walls
Summary
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.
©1959 Margaret Millar, copyright 1959 The Hearst Corporation (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
Ask for Me Tomorrow
Summary
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. This story of love and greed among the rich and eccentric citizens of a California city - very much like the Millars' beloved Santa Barbara - is full of the things that make her work memorable - a wickedly twisted plot, sly observations on all social levels, and a writing style that welcomes you to the party like an old friend with a sharp tongue.
©1976 Margaret Millar (P)2013 Audible, Inc.