Collected Millar. The first detectives: including the Paul Prye mysteries, The invisible worm, The weak-eyed bat, The devil loves me: Inspector Sands mysteries, Wall of eyes, The iron gates

✍ Scribed by Millar, Margaret

• Book ID: 100639102
• Publisher: Soho Syndicate; Syndicate Books
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 119 KB
• Series: Inspector Sands 2
• Category: Fiction
• City: Canada,Canada., Ontario--Toronto.
• ISBN: 1681990318

✦ Synopsis

**Fifteen years ago, Toronto’s Inspector Sands arrived at the Morrow family mansion as a rookie cop assisting in the investigation of the never-to-be-solved murder of Mrs. Morrow. Now the second Mrs. Morrow, Lucille, has gone missing. Sands sets himself the task of unraveling not only the disappearance but the cold case murder as well.
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The Morrows are a nearly picture-perfect family, although a tragedy fifteen years past casts a shadow over their tranquility. Lucille, the second wife of Dr. Andrew Morrow, has never quite won the affection of her two now-adult stepchildren, Polly and Martin, who were already adolescents when their mother died. But otherwise, the Morrows' lives are tranquil, comfortable, and well-heeled. Lucille's sister-in-law, Edith, who lives with them, is Lucille's closest friend; the two women have each devoted their lives to taking care of Andrew in wake of his tragic widowing. They are planning Polly's upcoming marriage to an army officer.

And then one winter day Lucille disappears. She takes nothing with her, not even one of her coats. Everyone else in the family was away from the house on errands; the maids, who should have seen her leave, can offer no insight except that a short, rough-looking delivery man had left a box for Lucille that afternoon, and that shortly afterward there had been a scream from behind her locked door. Could the incredibly controlled and correct Lucille have run away? Or is something much more sinister afoot?

Toronto police detective Inspector Sands is called in to investigate Mrs. Morrow's disappearance. It is not his first investigation at the Morrow residence—he was just a junior cop on a bike patrol fifteen years ago when he assisted in the case of the first Mrs. Morrow's unsolved murder. Maybe this time he'll be able to crack the secret at the heart of the doctor's beautiful family. **

About the Author

**PRAISE FOR MARGARET MILLAR
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**Mystery Writers of America Grand Master
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel
Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year
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“One of the most original and vital voices in all of American crime fiction.”
—Laura Lippman

“I long ago changed my writing name to Ross Macdonald for obvious reasons.”
—Kenneth Millar (Ross Macdonald), in a letter to the Toronto Saturday Night newspaper

“Very Original.”
**—Agatha Christie
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"Stunningly original."
—Val McDermid
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"Millar's mysteries are filled with clever twists, yet what makes them special is her surgical approach to her characters' inner lives. She's got an eagle eye for the juicy stuff lots of mystery writers still ignore—questions of class, status, sexual desire and the difficult position of women. This last was something she knew about firsthand. Millar's work was long overshadowed by that of her husband, detective novelist Ross Macdonald. In fact, her best novels — like 1955's Beast in View — have a ferocious edge that make him look rather tame." **
** —John Powers, NPR's Fresh Air

**"One of the greatest this country has ever produced."
** *—The Globe and Mail *

**"A writer whose own work is every bit as psychologically bruising and critically acclaimed as that of her husband [Ross Macdonald], if not as well known. But [Syndicate Books] hopes to rectify that with Collected Millar." **
—Kevin Burton Smith, * Mystery Scene Magazine *

**"Razor-sharp."
** * —The Seattle Times _
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“She has few peers, and no superior in the art of bamboozlement.”
** **—**Julian Symons
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“Written with such complete realization of every character that the most bitter antagonist of mystery fiction may be forced to acknowledge it as a work of art.”
**** —**Anthony Boucher reviewing Beast in View for the New York Times
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“Margaret Millar can build up the sensation of fear so strongly that at the end it literally hits you like a battering ram.”
_ — BBC

“Wonderfully ingenious.”
**** —**The New Yorker
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“Brilliantly superlative… One of the most impressive additions to mystery literature—and the word “literature” is used in its fullest sense.”
**** —**San Francisco Chronicle
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“In the whole of crime fiction’s distinguished sisterhood, there is no one quite like Margaret Millar.”
**** —**The Guardian
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“A superb writer.”
**** —H.R.F. Keating

“She writes minor classics.”
**** —**Washington Post
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“Mrs. Millar doesn't attract fans she creates addicts.”
**** —Dilys Winn, namesake of the Dilys Award

✦ Subjects

Canada