Margaret Millar Libri
5 febbraio 1915 – 26 marzo 1994
Margaret Ellis Millar è stata una scrittrice di gialli e suspense le cui opere si distinguono per una caratterizzazione sofisticata, esplorando le complesse vite interiori dei suoi personaggi con una qualità quasi letteraria. Ha approfondito temi come la classe sociale, l'insicurezza, le ambizioni fallite, la solitudine e l'isolamento esistenziale, trascendendo il tipico genere del mistero. I suoi romanzi, spesso caratterizzati da ingegnose sorprese finali, sono apprezzati per la loro profondità psicologica e le sottili rappresentazioni dell'interazione umana, che rimangono avvincenti anche quando l'esito è noto. Millar è stata una pioniera nell'affrontare in modo intelligente la psicologia femminile, offrendo una prospettiva matura su temi sociali e codici morali.
Wall of Eyes
- 232pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
Since the accident that left her blind, Kelsey has become more difficult than ever. At least this is what Alice told the psychiatrist. Languishing in a house full of servants and unloving family, Kelsey has become bitter. She was driving the car that night. Geraldine did die, and Kelsey will never see again. But that was two long years ago. Time enough to heal. So why would Kelsey now want her life to end with a grain of morphine?
Helen Clarvoe, a wealthy recluse, receives a threatening call from someone who claims to know her, and she asks Mr. Blackshear, one of her late father's advisors, to investigate
The story revolves around Rupert Kellogg, whose life takes a dark turn when his wife, Amy, disappears during a disastrous trip to Mexico. As the investigation unfolds, Rupert finds himself at the center of a tense and paranoid scrutiny, raising questions about trust and the nature of love. The narrative delves into themes of obsession and betrayal, exploring the complexities of relationships under duress.
In 1950s America the men are back to work and the women are home raising a new generation. The war is over and the boom is on. Everyone is happy. It is to this myth of the perfect American family that novelist Margaret Millar applied her scalpel. This volume includes five of Millar's novels of the 1950s, among her best-known works of literary suspense as well as some of the most compulsively readable, please-leave-a-light-on thrillers ever put to paper
