Beast in View

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Beast in View is a 1955 psychological suspense novel by Margaret Millar, renowned for its twisty plot and exploration of mental illness and identity.

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Beast in View canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
psychological suspense novel
adaptationTitle Beast in View (television adaptation) NERFINISHED
adaptationType television episode
author Margaret Millar NERFINISHED
awarded Edgar Award for Best Novel NERFINISHED
awardYear 1956
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
genre crime fiction
mystery fiction
psychological thriller
hasAdaptation television adaptation
hasForm prose
hasReception critically acclaimed
hasSubject blackmail
mental illness in women
stalking
hasTheme duality of identity
isolation
paranoia
psychological breakdown
unreliable perception
influenced later psychological suspense fiction
language English
literaryAwardedBy Mystery Writers of America NERFINISHED
literaryMovement mid-20th-century American crime fiction
mainCharacter Helen Clarvoe NERFINISHED
Paul Blackshear NERFINISHED
Veronica NERFINISHED
mediaType print
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableFor exploration of identity
exploration of mental illness
twist ending
pageCount approximately 250
partOf 20th-century American novels
American mystery novels
placeOfPublication New York City
publicationDate 1955
publisher Random House NERFINISHED
settingPeriod 20th century

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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: Beast in View
Description of subject: Beast in View is a 1955 psychological suspense novel by Margaret Millar, renowned for its twisty plot and exploration of mental illness and identity.

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Margaret Millar notableWork Beast in View