The Iron Gates (1945) finds Sands investigating the disappearance of Lucille Morrow, one of Millar's most successfully complex characters. The relationship between the Heath sisters, pliant Alice and blind, shrill Kelsey, asks who is prey and who is predator. Wall of Eyes (1943) uses an important Millar device-characters who are not what or who they seem. Sands, unprepossessing but perceptive and humane, is more typical of Millar's characters and appears in two other novels. Their wedding, in The Devil Loves Me (1942), is complicated by a murder and allows for the introduction of the second continuing character, Detective-Inspector Sands. Paul Prye, psychiatrist and witty amateur sleuth, appears in The Invisible Worm (1941) and The Weak-Eyed Bat (1942), which details Prye's search for a killer and his courtship of clever, brash Nora Shane. Primarily known as a mystery writer, Millar created two series detectives. The Birds and the Beasts Were There (1967) recounts the difficulties and the pleasures of a major current interest, bird watching. Millar is a former president of the Mystery Writers of America and widely known as an environmentalist. Millar's husband wrote mysteries under the name Ross Macdonald. Margaret Millar studied at the University of Toronto her early interests were classics, archaeology, music, and psychiatry. Born 5 February 1915, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada died 26 March 1994ĭaughter of William and Lavinia Ferrier Sturm married Kenneth Millar, 1938
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