Monday, February 05, 2007

Happy birthday, Margaret Millar.

Author Margaret Millar, the wife of Lew Archer creator Ross Macdonald, was born on February 5, 1915. She died in 1994. Millar won an Edgar for Beast in View in 1956; other notable works include How Like an Angel and Beyond This Point are Monsters.

Stark House Press has reprinted Millar's novels An Air that Kills and Do Evil in Return, and Crippen and Landru has published a collection of her short stories. Stay tuned for the spring 07 issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection, which is a theme issue focusing on Millar's work.

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