Beast in View - Margaret Millar 1955 - Random House, New York - First Edition The psychological thriller, ‘strongly plotted accounts of eruptions from the depths of the unconscious’, by a mistress of suspense at the top of her form, winner of numerous awards and top rankings including the 1956 Edgar Allan Poe Award, and one of the Mystery Writers of America's Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time. Difficult to find in such a bright dust jacket.

Beast in View was adapted for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour in the 60s and Alfred Hitchcock Presents in the 80s. Writing about the book in 1984 for the New York Times, Anthony Boucher said, it was “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.” - Jake Hinson, Hall of Famers, Criminal Element.
  References: Symons, Bloody Murder 184. Herbert, The Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing, 291.

Octavo (21.5 x 14 cm) pp. [6] 249 [1]. In publisher’s quarter black cloth and pale blue paper covered boards, spine lettered in orange and white, blind-stamped lettering and white publisher’s logo to front board, top edge with yellow tint. Dust jacket price-clipped.
  Condition: Fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket.   Ref: 109014   Price: HK$ 4,000