The Murder of Miranda order 1980 Margaret Millar Hardcover Gollancz Thriller Very Rare Vintage Book

Small marks on dust jacket. Rest of book is in pretty good condition.

Rich widow Miranda Shaw and lifeguard Grady Keaton, half Miranda's age, disappear from the Penguin Beach Club, and, amid rumors and anonymous letters, attorney Tom Aragon begins a search--assisted by a nine-year-old who boasts of his Mafia connections

Where is Miranda Shaw? She had just been widowed and her lawyer needs her signature for probate, but her mansion is empty and two addled teenagers, Cordelia and Juliet, are wearing her jewellery. Has she eloped? With Grady, the lifeguard at her club, who is also missing? Is she dodging her lawyer? Or has she been murdered ... ?

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Fast talking Tom Aragon, a Mexican-American lawyer turned private investigator, finds himself investigating a trio of missing persons' cases in the always bizarre California hills. One of Millar's few reoccurring characters and her only foray into the tradition of Chandler and Hammett, Tom Aragon, ranks among her best creations. A sarcastic but talented young lawyer with a few rough edges, Aragon finds himself navigating one entitled nest of vipers after another, not to mention racial prejudice, in three of Millar's most unusual stories. Ask for Me Tomorrow (1976) Gilda Decker needs a new bag, what with her second husband being suddenly crippled and her ex-husband hiding himself and his money somewhere in the hinterlands of Mexico. Gilda's recently retained lawyer, Tom Aragon, Mexican himself, is the best man for the job. But the deeper Aragon digs into her ex-husband's past the more dangerous his job becomes. The Murder of Miranda (1979) Miranda Shaw and Grady Keaton should have made for a run-of-the-mill scandal at the prestigious Penguin Beach Club. Shaw, a recently widowed woman of fifty, was seen leaving the club with Keaton, a ruggedly handsome lifeguard half her age. When Miranda and Keaton go missing, the widower's lawyer sends his handiest man to find out where they've wandered off to. The clues come one stranger than the next for Tom Aragon in this often-hilarious novel of folly among the California elite. Mermaid (1982) Cleo Jasper is as beautiful as she is simple-minded--and now, she's missing. Her doting brother will stop at nothing to find his defenseless sister, who fears the worst. Enter Tom Aragon, who is retained to track her down and order return her to safety. Aragon soon realizes that he has once again found himself in over his head when Cleo's friend turns up dead amidst a sea of somewhat dubious suicide notes.


ReviewsPraise for Margaret Millar "One of the most original and vital voices in all of American crime fiction." --Laura Lippman "No woman in twentieth-century American mystery writing is more important than Margaret Millar." --Dorothy B. Hughes, author of In a Lonely Place "I long ago changed my writing name to Ross Macdonald for obvious reasons." --Kenneth Millar, in a letter to the Toronto Saturday Night newspaper. "Very Original." --Agatha Christie