I was working in Part 9 for a short while again this evening. The following are consecutive entries in the M’s. Not the most interesting group of authors, perhaps, but they’re all grist for the mill. (And who is to say, without reading them?)

MILLAR, FLORENCE N(ORAH). 1920-2000? Add tentative year of death. Author of two detective novels and one work marginally criminous, all three included in the (Revised) Crime Fiction IV. Chief Inspector Douglas Grant (DG) is the series detective in two of them. See below.
      Fishing Is Dangerous. Gifford, UK, hc, 1946. DG
      Grant’s Overture. Gifford, UK, hc, 1956. DG
      -The Lone Kiwi. Dawson, UK, hc, 1948. Setting: Italy, World War II.

MILLAR, J(OHN) HALKET. 1899-1978. Born in New Zealand. Add as a new author entry.
      Death Round the Bend. R. W. Stiles & Co., New Zealand, hc, 1954. [A novel about the bushranging Burgess gang that terrorized the New Zealand goldfields in 1866.]

MILLAR, PETER. British journalist and author of one thriller novel included in the (Revised) Crime Fiction IV. See below. Bleak Midwinter (Bloomsbury, 2002) is about an outbreak of bubonic plague set in modern Oxford.
      Stealing Thunder. London & NYC: Bloomsbury, hc, 1999. Add setting: 1945. [Alternative history thriller involving Klaus Fuchs, the German born Los Alamos physicist who passed on critical pieces of information about the atomic bomb.]

MILLER, RON(ALD) JAY. 1943- . Add full first name and year of birth.
      The Medallion. Salt Lake City: Northwest, pb, 1992. Setting: Wyoming. “This tale of courage and triumph follows Calvin Taft as he battles to regain his past with the help of a special medallion.”

MILLS, JOHN FITZMAURICE. 1917-1991. Add year of death. Lived in Wales; art critic for Irish Times for 10 years. Besides one novel included in the (Revised) Crime Fiction IV (see below) the author of such reference books as Collecting and Looking after Antiques and How to Detect Fake Antiques.
      Top Knocker. Dublin, Ireland: Wolfhound, pb, 1990. Wolfhound, US, pb, 1990. Setting: Dublin. [Novel about intrigue in the antiques trade, by an insider.]

MILLS, MAX. 1910?-2001? Add both dates, both tentative. Author of one novel included in the (Revised) Crime Fiction IV. See below.
      Bedtime at Eleven. Quality Press, UK, hc, 1949.