Miriam Borgenicht

Miriam Borgenicht (July 22, 1915 − April 23, 1992) was an American writer of mystery novels. A 1936 graduate of Barnard College in New York City, she worked for the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. She married Milton Klein, a lawyer, and had five children. Pearl G. Aldrich, writing in Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers, said of Borgenicht's first 10 novels, "They tread a very thin line, each wavering back and forth from competent to inept, credible to ridiculous, interesting to boring." A reviewer for Publishers Weekly said of No Duress, "The villains will be obvious to even neophyte armchair sleuths, but Borgenicht's perceptive comments on troubling social issues generate plenty of tension." A Publishers Weekly reviewer said of Undue Influence that it was "well-crafted" and featured "strong characters" but that it lost suspense in the closing chapters via a plot twist that was "too sudden and convenient".