 Margaret Ellis Sturm was born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. In 1938, she married Kenneth Millar who also wrote detective novels under the pseudonym Ross Macdonald. After the Second World War she worked as a screen writer for Warner Brothers. In 1983, she was awarded the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. |
Titles and year of publication:
| 1) The Invisible Worm | 1941 |
| 2) The Weak-Eyed Bat | 1942 |
| 3) The Devil Loves Me | 1942 |
| 4) Wall of Eyes | 1943 |
| 5) Fire Will Freeze | 1944 |
| 6) The Iron Gates (UK Title: Taste of Fears) | 1945 |
| 7) Experiment in Springtime | 1947 |
| 8) The Cannibal Heart | 1949 |
| 9) Do Evil in Return | 1950 |
| 10) Rose's Last Summer (Also published as: The Lively Corpse) | 1952 |
| 11) Vanish in an Instant | 1952 |
| 12) Beast in View (Edgar Award) | 1955 |
| 13) An Air That Kills (UK Title: The Soft Talkers) | 1957 |
| 14) The Listening Walls | 1959 |
| 15) A Stranger in My Grave | 1960 |
| 16) How Like an Angel | 1962 |
| 17) The Fiend | 1964 |
| 18) Beyond This Point Are Monsters | 1970 |
| 19) Ask for Me Tomorrow | 1976 |
| 20) The Murder of Miranda | 1979 |
| 21) Mermaid | 1982 |
| 22) Banshee | 1983 |
| 23) Spider Webs | 1986 |
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