Podcast appearances and mentions of margaret millar

Evelyn Merrick, die die versteckten Ängste ihrer Feinde geschickt auszunutzen weiß, findet ihre Befriedigung darin, alle, die ihr im Weg sind, in Unglück und Schrecken zu stürzen. Von Margaret Millar Mit Hedi Kriegeskotte, Meike Droste, Matti Krause, Ulrich Noethen u. a. Bearbeitung und Regie: Irene Schuck SWR 2016 Podcast-Tipp: Jenseits von Eden https://1.ard.de/jenseitsvoneden Von Margaret Millar.

We're joined by novelist and high-school music teacher Daniel DiFranco (Panic Years, Devil on My Trail) to discuss the Margaret Millar novel Do Evil in Return, a staple of the noir genre. We talk about the line between serious and campy, how to move plot forward in a novel, and the difficulty of endings.  For more about our guest, including where to find his books, check out his website: http://www.danieldifranco.com/ If you like our podcast, and would like more of it in your life, $5 gets you a couple bonus episodes each month plus access to our huge backlog of bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/c/BookFight Thanks for listening! Note: This episode is part of our ongoing season on noir novels, but you don't need to listen to the episodes in order, and you don't need to read the books to enjoy the discussion.

Perry and David discuss recent book awards and go on to discuss their recent reading, some of which evoke strong emotions and others which have kept us on the edge of our seats. Intro (04:07) General News (14:02) Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2023 (03:21) The Hugo Awards 2023 (03:41) World Fantasy Awards 2023 (00:35) Le Guin Prize for Imaginative Fiction 2023 (01:17) Death of Michael Bishop (01:36) Death of A. S. Byatt (03:22) What we've been reading lately (45:49) All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien (04:49) Beast in View by Margaret Millar (03:04) Blindness by José Saramago (07:11) The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey (05:32) The Conversion by Amanda Lohrey (04:16) The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth (06:18) Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (05:55) The True Story of Spit McPhee by James Aldridge (08:13) Windup (00:24) Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. —Evangeline, Part 2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Image generated by Wombo art

Perry and David discuss recent book awards and go on to discuss their recent reading, some of which evoke strong emotions and others which have kept us on the edge of our seats. Intro (04:07) General News (14:02) Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2023 (03:21) The Hugo Awards 2023 (03:41) World Fantasy Awards 2023 (00:35) Le Guin Prize for Imaginative Fiction 2023 (01:17) Death of Michael Bishop (01:36) Death of A. S. Byatt (03:22) What we've been reading lately (45:49) All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien (04:49) Beast in View by Margaret Millar (03:04) Blindness by José Saramago (07:11) The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey (05:32) The Conversion by Amanda Lohrey (04:16) The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth (06:18) Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (05:55) The True Story of Spit McPhee by James Aldridge (08:13) Windup (00:24) Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. —Evangeline, Part 2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Click here for more info and indexes. Image generated by Wombo art

A brief crank call transforms into a lengthy nightmare for spinster Helen Clarvoe and her anxious orbit around family and friends in Los Angeles. By turns evasive and compelling, Margaret Millar proffers a unique psychological thriller with Beast in View, her Edgar Award winning novel from 1956. Working the case on behalf of Helen (and readers) is unlikely investigator, Paul Blackshear, who sails a sea of choppy emotional waters, characterised by obsession, personal trauma and vindictive love. So, leave your phone off the hook and join us for a look through this enduring narrative gem and its unassuming legacy.

Sarah Weinman is an award-winning writer and editor who has spent years covering crime, the true crime genre, and crime fiction. She's recently edited an anthology Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of reckoning. It's a collection that asks tough questions about our understanding of crime, and efforts to document crimes in both traditional outlets and new media.In this episode, The Murder Sheet sits down with Sarah to discuss the book, the process for compiling so many diverse and interesting voices in one volume, ethical considerations in true crime and crime journalism, and the crime fiction author Margaret Millar!Read Sarah's New York Times op-ed here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/opinion/true-crime-crisis.htmlRead Sarah's article on Linda Millar and her family here: https://crimereads.com/linda-interrupted/The Murder Sheet participates in the Amazon Associate program and earns money from qualifying purchases. Buy Evidence of Things Seen here or wherever you buy your books: https://www.amazon.com/Evidence-Things-Seen-Crime-Reckoning-ebook/dp/B0BJDZTBWF/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1MNSCKZ5P5Y6D&keywords=evidence+of+things+sarah+weinman&qid=1688762307&sprefix=evidence+of+things+sarah+weinman%252Caps%252C97&sr=8-2&_encoding=UTF8&tag=murdersheet-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=5cbdc852eb3431e9f897de18104edc66&camp=1789&creative=9325Buy Unspeakable Acts here or wherever you buy your books: https://www.amazon.com/Unspeakable-Acts-Murder-Deceit-Obsession/dp/0062839888/ref=sr_1_1?crid=12G8TZPG39VMC&keywords=unspeakable+acts+by+sarah+weinman&qid=1688762223&sprefix=unspeakable+acts%252Caps%252C111&sr=8-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=murdersheet-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=dc5d6cfb60f8b77ab15f5ee55668e7e8&camp=1789&creative=9325Buy Scoundrel here or wherever you buy your books: https://www.amazon.com/Scoundrel-Convicted-Persuaded-Conservative-Establishment/dp/0062899767/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1688762145&sr=8-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=murdersheet-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=c52ed9ae870b3fd7464027f9c342f3d4&camp=1789&creative=9325Buy The Real Lolita here or wherever you buy your books: https://www.amazon.com/Real-Lolita-Unthinkable-Scandalous-Masterpiece/dp/0062661930/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3SVO4LB6242LF&keywords=the+real+lolita+sarah+weinman&qid=1688762079&sprefix=real++sarah+weinman%252Caps%252C95&sr=8-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=murdersheet-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=59e6f5869dc12a72f4bd811c96ed50b6&camp=1789&creative=9325Buy Beast In View here or wherever you buy your books: https://www.amazon.com/Beast-View-Margaret-Millar-ebook/dp/B015MA7QNG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1688761826&sr=8-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=murdersheet-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=fba2dd027500043535a88675a80e4293&camp=1789&creative=9325">Beast in ViewBuy The Fiend here or wherever you buy your books: https://www.amazon.com/Fiend-Margaret-Millar-ebook/dp/B015MA7QTU/ref=sr_1_1?crid=MUYUQJOZZX8J&keywords=margaret+millar+the+fiend&qid=1688761784&sprefix=the+fiend+margaret%252Caps%252C111&sr=8-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=murdersheet-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=a7034f1f4a7da3e72bebf659dbfac801&camp=1789&creative=9325">the FiendBuy How Like An Angel here or wherever you buy your books: https://www.amazon.com/How-Like-Angel-Margaret-Millar-ebook/dp/B015MA7QUO/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1688761513&sr=8-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=murdersheet-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=9e3ec371bd6e18c02d56e411eaa8d84d&camp=1789&creative=9325Send tips to murdersheet@gmail.com.The Murder Sheet is a production of Mystery Sheet LLC.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Kriminalhörspiel nach dem Roman von Margaret Millar. Teil Zwei: Die 22jährige Cleo Jasper ist verschwunden. Wurde die geistig zurückgebliebene Millionenerbin entführt? Oder ist die überbeschützte "kleine Schwester" des angesehenen Geschäftsmanns Hilton W. Jasper untergetaucht, um das normale Leben einer selbständigen Frau auszuprobieren? Da wird der Mann tot aufgefunden, den Cleo heiraten wollte. Und ausgerechnet ihr Bruder Hilton hat ihn zuletzt lebend gesehen. Die Kriminalromane Margaret Millars und ihres Mannes Ross McDonald - gestorben 1983 - gehören zu den derzeit interessantesten Arbeiten dieses Genres in Amerika. Margaret Millar - Kanadierin aus einer deutsch-englischen Einwandererfamilie und Trägerin des "Edgar-Allan-Poe-Preises" - schildert in ihren Romanen psychosoziale Deformationen, die der amerikanische "way of life" hervorbringen kann. Sie sympathisiert nicht mit den opportunistischen Machern, sondern mit den glücklosen Verlierern, die sich in der hemdsärmeligen Leistungsgesellschaft nicht durchsetzen können. Übersetzung aus dem Englischen: Otto Bayer. Bearbeitung: Valerie Stiegele. Mit: Nina Danzeisen (Cleo Jasper), Karin Rasenack (Miss Nelson, Sekretärin), Peter Buchholz (Tom Aragon, Rechtsanwalt), Gerd Baltus (Hilton Jasper), Monica Bleibtreu (Glenda Jasper), Uwe Bohm (Ted Jasper), Maria Körber (Mrs. Holbrook), Rainer Schmitt (Donny Whitfield), Gerda Katharina Kramer (ältere Frau mit Hund), Gerd Samariter (Abercrombie, Platzverwalter), Loretta Sanclemente de Burmann (Valencia, spanische Köchin), Lutz Harder-Kirschner (Roger, junger Mann), Siegfried Kernen (Lieutenant Peterson), Derval de Faria (Manny Ocho, Steuermann), Edgar Hoppe (Sergeant Kowalski), Carin Abicht (Sarah, Polizeiangestellte), Helmut Gentsch (Ritchie), Ulrich Pleitgen (Captain Whitfield), Rolf Nagel (Mr. Sprague, Hafenmeister) und Nicolai Hübner (Rundfunksprecher). Regieassistenz: Bärbel Kasperek. Regie: Hans Rosenhauer. Redaktion: Christiane Ohaus. Produktion: NDR 1986. Verfügbar bis 28.03.2023. https://ndr.de/radiokunst

Kriminalhörspiel nach dem Roman von Margaret Millar. Teil Eins: Die 22jährige Cleo Jasper ist verschwunden. Wurde die geistig zurückgebliebene Millionenerbin entführt? Oder ist die überbeschützte "kleine Schwester" des angesehenen Geschäftsmanns Hilton W. Jasper untergetaucht, um das normale Leben einer selbständigen Frau auszuprobieren? Da wird der Mann tot aufgefunden, den Cleo heiraten wollte. Und ausgerechnet ihr Bruder Hilton hat ihn zuletzt lebend gesehen. Die Kriminalromane Margaret Millars und ihres Mannes Ross McDonald - gestorben 1983 - gehören zu den derzeit interessantesten Arbeiten dieses Genres in Amerika. Margaret Millar - Kanadierin aus einer deutsch-englischen Einwandererfamilie und Trägerin des "Edgar-Allan-Poe-Preises" - schildert in ihren Romanen psychosoziale Deformationen, die der amerikanische "way of life" hervorbringen kann. Sie sympathisiert nicht mit den opportunistischen Machern, sondern mit den glücklosen Verlierern, die sich in der hemdsärmeligen Leistungsgesellschaft nicht durchsetzen können. Übersetzung aus dem Englischen: Otto Bayer. Bearbeitung: Valerie Stiegele. Mit: Nina Danzeisen (Cleo Jasper), Karin Rasenack (Miss Nelson, Sekretärin), Peter Buchholz (Tom Aragon, Rechtsanwalt), Gerd Baltus (Hilton Jasper), Monica Bleibtreu (Glenda Jasper), Uwe Bohm (Ted Jasper), Maria Körber (Mrs. Holbrook), Rainer Schmitt (Donny Whitfield), Gerda Katharina Kramer (ältere Frau mit Hund), Gerd Samariter (Abercrombie, Platzverwalter), Loretta Sanclemente de Burmann (Valencia, spanische Köchin), Lutz Harder-Kirschner (Roger, junger Mann), Siegfried Kernen (Lieutenant Peterson), Derval de Faria (Manny Ocho, Steuermann), Edgar Hoppe (Sergeant Kowalski), Carin Abicht (Sarah, Polizeiangestellte), Helmut Gentsch (Ritchie), Ulrich Pleitgen (Captain Whitfield), Rolf Nagel (Mr. Sprague, Hafenmeister) und Nicolai Hübner (Rundfunksprecher). Regieassistenz: Bärbel Kasperek. Regie: Hans Rosenhauer. Redaktion: Christiane Ohaus. Produktion: NDR 1986. Verfügbar bis 28.03.2023. https://ndr.de/radiokunst

Blankers! This episode we discuss Margaret Millar's terrific noir classic Beast in View. This book's got it all: murder, threatening phone calls from bar telephones, a waterproof woman, domestic drama, gender politics, unreliable narrators, and a twist that will knock your socks off.  Want to get in touch with the show? Email: pointblanknoir@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pointblankpodcast/ $ Support: https://www.patreon.com/pointblankcrime Give us a review on iTunes.  

The Buzz 1: “Nobody brings the creepy better than women mystery and thriller writers. The literary world has always been a bit of a good ol' boys club, but since Anna Katharine Green, ‘the mother of the detective novel,' published The Leavenworth Case in 1878, right up to the Gone Girl frenzy, women writers have excelled in the genre.” (Erin Enders, www.bustle.com/articles/58552-11-female-mystery-writers-to-start-reading-now-because-these-suspenseful-stories-are-too-good-to) The Buzz 2: “Women's murder tales have always been at least a little more psychologically acute than the guys'. Even in the so-called golden age of detective stories, the 1920s and '30s, when the emphasis was on elaborate puzzles, the motivations of the culprits in Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers were usually more plausible—and nastier—than they were in Carr or Rex Stout or Ellery Queen…Later, while male pulp writers were playing with guns and fighting off those wily femmes fatales, women like Highsmith and Dorothy B. Hughes and Margaret Millar were burrowing into the enigmas of identity and the killing stresses of everyday life.” (Ashley Johnson, shereads.com/best-thrillers-by-women-2019/) We'll ask publisher Eddie Vincent and novelists Leslie Wheeler, BJ Magnani, PhD, MD, and S. Lee Manning for their take on The Future of Women Thriller Novelists: Who Dunnit?

The Buzz 1: “Nobody brings the creepy better than women mystery and thriller writers. The literary world has always been a bit of a good ol' boys club, but since Anna Katharine Green, ‘the mother of the detective novel,' published The Leavenworth Case in 1878, right up to the Gone Girl frenzy, women writers have excelled in the genre.” (Erin Enders, www.bustle.com/articles/58552-11-female-mystery-writers-to-start-reading-now-because-these-suspenseful-stories-are-too-good-to) The Buzz 2: “Women's murder tales have always been at least a little more psychologically acute than the guys'. Even in the so-called golden age of detective stories, the 1920s and '30s, when the emphasis was on elaborate puzzles, the motivations of the culprits in Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers were usually more plausible—and nastier—than they were in Carr or Rex Stout or Ellery Queen…Later, while male pulp writers were playing with guns and fighting off those wily femmes fatales, women like Highsmith and Dorothy B. Hughes and Margaret Millar were burrowing into the enigmas of identity and the killing stresses of everyday life.” (Ashley Johnson, shereads.com/best-thrillers-by-women-2019/) We'll ask publisher Eddie Vincent and novelists Leslie Wheeler, BJ Magnani, PhD, MD, and S. Lee Manning for their take on The Future of Women Thriller Novelists: Who Dunnit?

The Buzz 1: “Nobody brings the creepy better than women mystery and thriller writers. The literary world has always been a bit of a good ol' boys club, but since Anna Katharine Green, ‘the mother of the detective novel,' published The Leavenworth Case in 1878, right up to the Gone Girl frenzy, women writers have excelled in the genre.” (Erin Enders, www.bustle.com/articles/58552-11-female-mystery-writers-to-start-reading-now-because-these-suspenseful-stories-are-too-good-to) The Buzz 2: “Women's murder tales have always been at least a little more psychologically acute than the guys'. Even in the so-called golden age of detective stories, the 1920s and '30s, when the emphasis was on elaborate puzzles, the motivations of the culprits in Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers were usually more plausible—and nastier—than they were in Carr or Rex Stout or Ellery Queen…Later, while male pulp writers were playing with guns and fighting off those wily femmes fatales, women like Highsmith and Dorothy B. Hughes and Margaret Millar were burrowing into the enigmas of identity and the killing stresses of everyday life.” (Ashley Johnson, shereads.com/best-thrillers-by-women-2019/) We'll ask publisher Eddie Vincent and novelists Leslie Wheeler, BJ Magnani, PhD, MD, and S. Lee Manning for their take on The Future of Women Thriller Novelists: Who Dunnit?

Wilson’s guest is Karen Huston Karydes . Karydes discusses her new book, complete but not yet published, about the life and work of three pioneer women writers of the 1940’s and 50’s: Shirley Jackson, Margaret Millar (the wife of Ross Macdonald), and Patricia Highsmith. The working title of the book is When Witches Wrote Novels. All three of these women were prolific writers. Jackson wrote 6 novels and many short stories, Highsmith, 22 novels, and Millar wrote 27 novels. These women moved beyond the literature of the hard boiled, good versus evil of the male writers to a more nuanced genre where there are no immoral people, just immoral acts. It was called Domestic Noir where murder moved from the dark lonely streets of the city to the bedroom, living room, or other familiar insular places. Karydes argues that the work of these authors is experiencing somewhat of a comeback in today’s lockdown environment.

We've got another installment this week in our Summer of Spouses, in which we've been reading work by the less-famous partners of well-known authors. Interestingly, early on Margaret Millar's marriage to Ross Macdonald, whose real name was Kenneth Millar, she was the more famous of the two. Though eventually his reputation would take off, particularly after he created the character of Lew Archer. But she remained a well-respected crime writer in her own right, and is often credited with lending psychological depth to the types of characters who, in lesser writers' hands, tended to be rather flat and stereotypical. In the first half of the show, we talk about Millar's prize-winning 1955 novel, Beast in View. Both of us found things to like in the book, but also some things we grew frustrated with. In the second half of the show, we talk about Millar's relationship with Macdonald, plus we dig into some more Yahoo Answers! questions about marriage, divorce, and flatulence. If you like the show, please consider subscribing to our Patreon, which helps offset our costs and allows us to keep doing the podcast each week. In exchange for $5, you'll also get access to a monthly bonus episode, Book Fight After Dark, in which we explore some of the weirder reaches of the literary universe: Amish mysteries, caveman romances, end-times thrillers and more!

The day had gone badly for Raymond Ambler, a bitterly cold, gray, January day not long after New Year's, the wind like a knife, slicing into the cavern cut by 42nd Street between the skyscrapers on either side. The wind stung his face and whipped under his trench coat as he walked the couple of blocks to the library from Grand Central, where he'd gotten off the subway from the courthouse downtown. Banks of piled-up snow, stained and filthy as only snow on a city street can get, hanging on from the storm the day after Christmas, lined the curb, the gutters on at each street corner a half-foot deep in slush and muddy water.  -- Con Lehane, Murder in the Manuscript Room Murder + libraries is always a winner for me, and author Con Lehane gives us a non-cozy suspense series about Raymond Ambler, curator of crime at the 42nd Street Library. Ahem, I mean curator of crime books, of course. ;) Raymond comes across more than his fair share of bodies -- and lucky for us that he does. In his latest, there is a crime from the past reaching its tentacles into the present, as well as family complications and questions of trust and betrayal. This is Con's second series, and it's just as interesting and complex as his first, The Bartender Brian McNulty Mysteries. In fact, McNulty has a cameo in the 42nd Street Library series as well. After all, there's always a good reason to stop in at a bar. I'm all over the cover art for the US edition of the first in that series, Beware the Solitary Drinker, published by Poisoned Pen Press. It was painted by Fritz Scholder; if you're not familiar with the artist, you can check out his official website here.  Con gives a shout-out to Megan Abbott, who has compared him to Ross Macdonald. So many other writers came up in our chat! They include fellow noir(ish) writer Jason Starr; Macdonald's wife, Margaret Millar; and Con's favorite writer, Nelson Algren, who wrote The Man with the Golden Arm. Fellow writers whom Con admires for melding social problems with crackerjack mysteries include George Pelecanos, S.J. Rozan, Laura Lippman, Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, and Walter Mosley. If your TBR list isn't big enough, we also talk about a murder that happened while he was tending bar -- although not in his bar -- and influenced Beware the Solitary Drinker. It was adapted into a novel, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, by Judith Rossner. Finally, one mystery is solved! Con quotes a writer whose name escaped him, but it was, as he thought, the author of The Book of Daniel, E.L. Doctorow. The link takes you to even more of Doctorow's great quotes. Do check out Con's website as well as his Facebook and Twitter feeds if you want to keep tabs on him. Meanwhile, if you'd rather read than listen, as always, a transcript is below. Enjoy! -- Laura ************************************************************************************* Transcript of Interview with Con Lehane Laura Brennan: My guest today is author Con Lehane. Con has been a bartender, labor journalist, union organizer, and college professor. The New York Times has called his Brian McNulty mystery series “cruelly charming” while Megan Abbot dubbed his first Raymond Ambler novel a “masterful tale in the grand tradition of Ross Macdonald.” Con, thank you for joining me. Con Lehane: Well, thank you. LB: Those are some passionate fans, there. CL: Well, I'm very lucky. I've known Megan since her first book. Her first two, three, four were these noir-ish books that were set in the glamorous 40s. Her later books are stand-alones about younger women, girls growing up. I really appreciated her saying that, and I really admire Ross Macdonald. He's sort of my mentor from the past. Maybe I'm too much like him in some ways. LB: I don't think you can be too much like Ross Macdonald, I don't think that's a thing. I think that's good. So, you mentioned noir. There is a very noir feel, especially to your first series.

Welcome to the new format! Part 1 of our discussion of Ross Macdonald's "The Doomsters.' We introduce the book, give some short reviews, discuss the writing life of Ross Macdonald aka Ken Millar and Margaret Millar, and go bird-watching in a really stupid mystery series. Find us on Facebook, Twitter, or send us an email at pointblanknoir@gmail.com

Douglas Greene, publisher of Crippen & Landru reads "The People Across the Canyon" by Margaret Millar, from her collection of stories The Couple Next Door, published by Crippen & Landru. The story was reprinted in AHMM in the November 2005 issue as a Mystery Classic.