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Beast in View
Margaret Millar, 1955
GENRE
Detective
Psychological mystery
GENDER
Helen Clarvoe, Heroine (and culprit)
Paul Blackshear, Hero
How come
I came upon this title time and time again as I was compiling my reading list—it won the Edgar Award in 1956 and was adapted into an episode of the Alfred Hitchcock Hour. I knew it had a big twist at the end and would offer the opportunity to read a detective novel with a strong psychological horror element.
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Legend
legend:
pleasure
Marked by those feelings of satisfaction, gratification, fantasy, and entertainment.
convention
Convention is the way things are usually done. They are recurring, referential themes and motifs.
gender
Gender encompasses the lived, material realities of the way one presents and articulates their bodies in a world that privileges certain presentations.
genre
Genre is a critical and analytical term that describes a text's relation to a larger body of work with similar themes, questions, and styles.
Magic symbol
You will see this symbol next to annotations in which I discuss the other genre.
Heart—Romance in the detective novel
Star—Detective novel in the romance
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