Book description
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, BEAST IN VIEW is a true classic of the crime fiction genre.
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 conservation movement in California in
the 1960s and was named a Woman of the Year by the LOS ANGELES TIMES in
1965, and in 1982 she became a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of
America.
