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Lucille Morrow was blessed -- a beautiful woman with a devoted husband. One day a mysterious messenger delivered a package, and suddenly Lucille Morrow was gone. Dominated by fear, she committed herself into an asylum. Searching for the cause, Inspector Sands follows a long trail which takes him to an abyss of horror, murder and retribution the likes of which he's never seen.Tags
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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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- Canonical title
- The Iron Gates
- Original title
- The Iron Gates
- Alternate titles
- Taste of Fears; The Iron Gates
- Original publication date
- 1945
- People/Characters
- Lucille Morrow; Andrew Morrow; Inspector Sands; Mildred Morrow
- Important places
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Dedication
- to Frances MacNaughton
- First words
- The dream began quietly.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Time passed over his head in a thin gray rack of scudding clouds, as if the sky had fled away and its last remaining rags were blowing over the edge of the world.
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