Strangers in Town: Three Newly Discovered Mysteries

Notes

" 'The Pacific bears some resemblance' ": Kenneth Millar to Professor Louis I. Bredvold, March 10, 1945, Louis I. Bredvold Correspondence, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

" 'a work of almost insane penetration' ": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, February 25, 1945, K. Millar Papers, UCI.

" 'still a masterpiece' ": Ibid.

" 'no masterpiece' ": Ibid.

" 'often amusing' ": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, March 10, 1945, K Millar Papers, UCI.

" 'far and away' ": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, April 21, 1945, UCI. Millar had not read Oliver Onions before, but: "I remember my mother used to talk about him…"

"'had a riproarious time'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, June 4, 1945, UCI; KM to MM, June 5, 1945, UCI.

"'a stinker'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, March 5, 1945, UCI.

"'the first really good movie'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, March 24, 1945, UCI.

"'so bad'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, March 12, 1945, UCI.

"'really first class'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, March 4, 1945, UCI.

"'playing around with ideas'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, March 14, 1945, UCI.

"'the only place I imagine'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, March 12, 1945, UCI.

"'psychological love-story'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, March 17, 1945, UCI.

"'No doubt it doesn't mean much'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, March 22, 1945, UCI.

"'the successor to Tunnel'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, March 23, 1945, UCI.

"'I couldn't go to sleep'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, March 24, 1945, UCI.

"'somewhat outlandish'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, March 28, 1945, UCI.

"'treasured bits'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, March 30, 1945, UCI.

"'In the light of what you've done'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, April 8, 1945, UCI.

"'[I]f Chandler ever brings out another'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, June 25, 1945, UCI.

"'a stinker'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, April 2, 1945, UCI.

"'a bum B picture'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, April 4, 1945, UCI.

"'I lasted about 20 minutes'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, June 23, 1945, UCI.

"'a prime stinker'": Ibid.

"'surely the world's most passive actress'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar June 5, 1945, UCI.

"'started well'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, April 8, 1945, UCI.

"'ghastly'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, May 29, 1945, UCI.

"'at which I lasted… just five minutes'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, April 4, 1945, UCI.

Millar flattered himself and underestimated the movie-makers: the killer in this picture doesn't appear until much later.

"'plays a fairly hot clarinet'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, June 7, 1945, UCI.

" ' "Don't Cry Baby" ' ": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, April 4, 1945, UCI.

"a song he urged amateur-pianist Maggie to put music to": Ibid.

"'I'd not be averse'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, May 18, 1945, UCI.

"'big slick material'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, April 4, 1945, UCI.

"'The word is inarticulate'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, May 11, 1945, UCI.

"'I think I'm writing freer'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, April 8, 1945, UCI.

"'not my soul-mate'": Margaret to Kenneth Millar, May 27, 1945, The Margaret Millar Papers, Special Collections and Archives, UC Irvine Libraries.

"'I never dreamed'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, May 14, 1945, K. Millar Papers, UCI.

"'Your friend (and her detective!)'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, June 5, 1945, UCI.

"'My shipmates'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, June 22, 1945, UCI.

"'Hemingway got only 12 grand'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, June 24, 1945, UCI.

"'Okinawa'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, June 22, 1945, UCI.

"No city had ever looked better": Millar interview with Arthur Kaye, K. Millar Papers, UCI.

"'Pretty good picture'": Margaret to Kenneth Millar, July 28, 1945, M. Millar Papers, UCI.

"'We… found'": Millar preface to "Find the Woman" in Maiden Murders: Mystery Writers of America (Harper, 1952).

"'the unholy grandeur'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, June 12–13, 1945, M. Millar Papers, UCI.

"'the favorite author'": Millar to Fred Dannay, November 25, 1946, Frederic Dannay Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.

"'about the best detective story'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, December 17, 1945, K. Millar Papers, UCI.

"'Did you get the impression'": Ibid.

"'writing laboriously'": Millar to H. C. Branson, October 7, 1945, UCI.

"'I dreamed a queer dream'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, September 28, 1945, UCI.

"'Reading a book like that'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, September 30, 1945, UCI.

"'I don't after all'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, September 28, 1945, UCI.

"'I liked Boucher'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, October 15, 1945, UCI.

"'Sorry I got plastered'": Margaret to Kenneth Millar, October 13, 1945, M. Millar Papers, UCI.

"'Anthony Boucher's few words of praise'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, October 15, 1945, K. Millar Papers, UCI.

"'My initial fee'": Kenneth Millar, "Find the Woman," Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 1946; reprinted in Maiden Murders; reprinted in Macdonald, The Name Is Archer (Bantam Books, 1955), et al.

"'nearly finished my story'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, October 17, 1945, UCI.

"'a story which I'm almost afraid to write'": Ibid. "' Finished my story'": Ibid.

"'I drowned my sorrows'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, November 2, 1945, UCI.

"'marvellous'": Ibid.

"'pretty powerful'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, November 3, 1945, UCI.

"'I wrote 14 pages'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, November 2, 1945, UCI.

"'Like you'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, November 3, 1945, UCI.

"'I just mailed to you'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, November 4, 1945, UCI.

"'The more I read of Fitzgerald'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, November 5, 1945, UCI.

"'I seriously doubt'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, November 4, 1945, UCI.

"'I feel quite smugly happy'": Ibid.

"'Was utterly delighted'": Margaret to Kenneth Millar, November 22, 1945, M. Millar Papers, UCI.

"'It sounds like the sort of thing'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, November 4, 1945, K. Millar Papers, UCI.

"'plenty of ideas'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, November 5, 1945, UCI.

"'I am proud to report'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, November 11, 1945, UCI.

"'quietly perfect'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, December 15, 1945, UCI.

"'As a piece of technical work'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, December 1, 1945, UCI.

"'time enough'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, December 20, 1945, UCI.

"'so the suspense will be an incentive'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, December 30, 1945, UCI.

"'Having written hard and daily'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, December 23, 1945, UCI.

"'You may sneer'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, December 27, 1945, UCI.

"'buried… (shallowly)'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, December 28, 1945, UCI.

"'some of the more unlovely examples'": Ibid.

"'You pays no money'": Ibid.

"'while it didn't encourage me'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, December 30, 1945, UCI.

"'Nope, I've got no delusions of grandeur'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar January 4, 1946, UCI.

"'I could do as well, I believe'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, January 2 1946, UCI.

"'I consider Hemingway's'": Millar to Ellery Queen, November 14, 1946, Frederic Dannay Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.

"'You can't understand'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, December 20, 1945, K. Millar Papers, UCI.

"'What nonsensical compulsion'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, December 1, 1945, UCI.

"'The chief reason I'm so pleased'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, January 4, 1946, UCI.

"'Not a bad puzzle'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, January 10, 1946, UCI.

"'It was a perfect night'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, January 19, 1946, UCI.

"'I don't want to force too much'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, January 20, 1946, UCI.

"'a hard-boiled short'": Millar to Wm. A.P. White (Anthony Boucher), February 12, 1946, courtesy Lilly Library, Indiana University.

"'Brought up… Calamity Town'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, February 15, 1946, K. Millar Papers, UCI.

"'very successful editorial policy'": Kenneth to Margaret Millar, April 1, 1945, UCI.

"'I thought up that thing'": Saul David interview with TN.

"'I was sorta conned into it'": Millar interview with Paul Nelson, K. Millar Papers, UCI.

"'fighting a vocal public battle'": Millar to Ivan von Auw, February 20, 1964, Ober Archives, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

"'Having to include sports'": Millar to Dorothy Olding, July 21, 1964, Ober Archives, Princeton.

"'It certainly contains the germ of a book'": Millar to Olding, August 7, 1964, Ober Archives, Princeton.

"'[The editor's] original request'": Millar to Olding, August 21, 1964, Ober Archives, Princeton.

"'Archer began as a child of the genre'": Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times, July 4, 1975.