Margaret Millar

Margaret Millar (born Margaret Ellis Sturm, 1915-1994) was a Canadian-born crime novelist who spent most of her life in California. She grew up in Kitchener, Ontario, studied classics at the University of Toronto, and married Kenneth Millar, who later wrote as Ross Macdonald, in 1938.

Her first mystery, The Invisible Worm, appeared in 1941, and she went on to write more than twenty novels of psychological suspense, known for their unreliable perceptions, domestic menace and surprise endings. Beast in View won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1956, and the Mystery Writers of America named her a Grand Master in 1983.