Mildred Davis is an American author. She published her first novel, The Room Upstairs, in 1948. It was awarded an Edgar for best first novel of the year by the Mystery Writers of America. Davis has a gift for embedding terror into the harmless ordinariness of mid-century suburbia, yet without distorting the essential nature of that world. And her special genius is to transport the reader into the very consciousness of her protagonist. To read a Mildred Davis novel is to live someone else's life for a couple of hours.

The novella "Suicide Hour" is available as a download from http://www.mildreddavis.com/suicide.asp. Several motifs foreshadowing the later work appear here also: submerged menace in a suburban setting; the teenage girl who has lost a parent; a fascination with abnormal psychology; the quest for an elusive and frightening truth.

The Room Upstairs (1948)

They Buried a Man (1953)

Suicide Hour (1954) {Novella} available at http://www.mildreddavis.com

The Dark Place (1955)

The Voice on the Telephone (1964)

The Sound of Insects (1966)

Strange Corner (1967)

Walk Into Yesterday (1967) aka Nightmare of Murder

The Third Half (1969)

Three Minutes to Midnight (1971)

The Invisible Boarder (1974)

Tell Them What's-Her-Name Called (1975)

Scorpion (1977)

The Avenging of Nevah Wright (2006) co-author Katherine Roome, available at http://www.murderinmaine.com