Margaret Millar

When Miranda Shaw, rich and recently widowed, and Grady Keaton, the head lifeguard at the Penguin Beach Club, drop out of sight at the same time....

Two women travel together. One mysteriously falls to her death from a balcony in a Mexico City hotel. The other returns to San Francisco and then disappears....

Lucille Morrow was blessed -- a beautiful woman with a devoted husband....

A New York family rents a house in California hoping for tranquil summer....

Margaret Millar's husband, Kenneth, who wrote under the name of Ross Macdonald, received more attention for his Lew Archer books, but her equally noteworthy mysteries are among the best of the genre....

Beyond This Point Are Monsters is a model of taut, credible, completely contained plotting, and a book with full marks for entertainment....

A yacht captain is on trial for murdering a woman he hired with more than the boat's cooking in mind....

When Rose French, a former silent film star best known for periodic binges and recently leaving her fifth husband, is found dead, only Frank Clyde, a friend and social worker, believes it was murder....