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Millar's thoroughly stoic hero Toronto detective Inspector Sands uncovers a conspiracy while investigating a years-old car accident after the blind survivor claims that someone is trying to kill her. The Heath family's wealth hasn't brought them happiness. One daughter, Kelsey, was blinded in a car accident, and the rest of the family tiptoes around her and avoids discussion of the tragedy that took her sight and the life of another passenger. But the passing years have only fermented the show more family's unhappiness. When Kelsey is murdered, Inspector Sands is called in to investigate. His probing questions stir up a spider's nest of seedy underworld connections, vindictive lovers, and cold-blooded selfishness. It seems likely that Kelsey's murder is not the first--and as Sands gets closer to the trail of an arch villain, it becomes increasingly likely it won't be the last, either. show lessTags
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Margaret Millar (1915-1994) was horn in Ontario, Canada and was educated at Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto, majoring in classics. In 1938 she married Kenneth Millar (who wrote under the name Ross Macdonald). She published her first novel, The Invisible Worm, in 1941 and she worked as a screenwriter for Warner show more Brothers. It was her 1955 novel, Beast in View, that won Millar the coveted Edgarsup/sup Award for Best Novel and the boob was later adapted for the Alfred Hitchcock Hour. She was active in the environmental conservation movement in California in the 1960s and was named a Woman of the Year by the Los Angeles Times in 1965, and in 1983 she became a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. show less
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I classici del giallo [Mondadori] (1389, 315)
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- Canonical title
- Wall of Eyes
- Original title
- Wall of Eyes
- Original publication date
- 1943
- People/Characters
- Inspector Sands; Alice Heath; Philip James; Kelsey Heath; Dr. Loring; Johnny Heath (show all 11); Marcie Moore; Mamie Rosen; Tony Murillo; Stevie Jordan; Ida (maid)
- Important places
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Dedication
- To My Aunt, ALICE FERRIER GOULD
- First words
- They moved briskly along the street, the girl carefully indifferent to the stares of the people who passed, the dog unaware of them.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The door slammed.
- Original language
- English US
- Disambiguation notice
- Wall of Eyes (1943) and The Listening Walls (1959) are not the same book! Please do not combine them.
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