num_pages: 160
description: A psychological thriller by a mistress of suspense at the top of her form and 1956 winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award. What starts with a crank call from an old school chum sets the lonely, aloof, financially comfortable Miss Helen Clarvoe on a path as predictable only as madness. Lured from her rooms in a second-rate residential Hollywood hotel, she finds herself stranded in the more perilous terrain of extortion, pornography, vengeance, and ultimately murder.
language: English
title: Beast in View
titlecomplete: Beast in View (Classic Crime)
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Crime, Suspense
ratings_count: 2088
awards: awardedAt: -441820800000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd