The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: Margaret Millar

  • Louise Penny’s Bury Your Dead Included on Time’s Top 100 Mystery and Thrillers List

    In their recent issue, also available online, Time Magazine offers top-100 list, put together by some of the biggest names in contemporary crime fiction, alongside several intriguing mystery-themed articles, including Rachel Howzell Hall’s “The Rich, Underappreciated History of Mystery Writers of Color.“ This Time feature issue was brought to my attention by no less than…

  • Margaret Millar

    Not travelling to the U.S. is impeding my research only when it comes to one author, the Canadian-American Margaret Millar (1915-1994), who was very famous in her day. In an astute 1971 New York Times review of Daphne du Maurier’s new novel, Millar points out that du Maurier’s books work better when they’re written in…