Anthologies

• Disco 2000 (1998), Sarah Champion, ed.

• Great Tales of Mystery and Suspense (1981) by Barry N. Malzberg, Bill Pronzini, and Martin Harry Greenberg

Collections

• An Air That Kills / Do Evil in Return (2006)

Fiction

• Spider Webs (1986)

• Banshee (1983)

• Mermaid (1982)

• The Murder of Miranda (1979)

• Ask for Me Tomorrow (1976)
  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. This story of love and greed among the rich and eccentric citizens of a California city--very much like the Millars' beloved Santa Barbara--is full of the things that make her work memorable--a wickedly twisted plot, sly observations on all social levels, and a writing style that welcomes you to the party like an old friend with a sharp tongue.

• Beyond This Point Are Monsters (1970, 1985)

• The Fiend (1964, 1984)

• How Like an Angel (1962, 2000)
  Private detective Joe Quinn gambles. That's how he's lost his job, car, clothes, and girlfriend; it's why he's hitchhiking from Reno to California. At The Tower, a back-country compound housing a religious cult, Quinn gambles again, when Sister Blessing asks him to locate one Patrick O'Gorman. It proves to be no easy task: O'Gorman's dead - and, Quinn wagers, not so accidentally as everyone insists.

• Stranger in My Grave (1960, 2002)

• Listening Walls (1959, 1986)
  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.

• An Air That Kills (1957)
  aka The Soft Talkers.

• Beast in View (1955, 2002) -- Winner 1956 Edgar Allen Poe Award
  At thirty, Helen Clarvoe is only: her only visitors are the staff at the hotel where she lives, and her only phone calls come from a stranger. A stranger whose quiet, compelling voice lures the aloof and financially secure Miss Clarvoe into a world of extortion, pornography, vengeance, madness and murder...

• Rose's Last Summer (1952)

• Vanish in an Instant (1952)

• Do Evil in Return (1950)

• Iron Gates (1945)
  Aka Taste of Fears

• Fire Will Freeze (1944)

• The Devil Loves Me (1942)

• The Weak-Eyed Bat (1942)

• The Invisible Worm (1941)

Non-fiction

• The Birds and the Beasts Were There (1968)

Other

• The Couple Next Door: Collected Short Mysteries (2004) by Deborah Miller, Margaret Millar, and Tom Nolan

See also:

• Biography: Margaret Millar (2007)
  An article from: Contemporary Authors by Gale Reference Team (Digital)