Fire Will Freeze
by Margaret Millar
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Alibis are as scarce as murders prolific in this darkly funny locked-room mystery wherein a group of stranded winter sports enthusiasts must endure the harshness of winter, murder, and a handsome French-Canadian separatist. A bus filled with ski enthusiasts headed for a rustic chalet in Canada breaks down in the middle a blizzard, sending a mismatched group of strangers out into the night to find shelter from the storm. Shelter is found by way of a dilapidated country mansion replete with a show more crazy old woman and her caregiver, who "accidentally" shoots at the skiers as they approach. Unlike the would-be skiers, the inhospitable situation only goes downhill from there. 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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- Canonical title
- Fire Will Freeze
- Original title
- Fire Will Freeze
- Original publication date
- 1944
- People/Characters
- Isobel Seton
- Important places
- Québec, Canada
- First words
- Miss Isobel Seton settled her chin into the collar of her sable coat and, as was her custom in moments of stress, mentally composed an abusive letter.
- Original language
- English US
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 813.52
- Canonical LCC
- PS3563.I3725
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- Members
- 79
- Popularity
- 401,706
- Rating
- (3.26)
- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
- 7
