title: Miriam Borgenicht
text: # 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.
  
  In addition to her novels, she wrote articles for magazines including The New Yorker, McCall's, Parents, and The New Republic. She died in Manhattan in 1992.
  
  ## Critical reviews
  
  In general, reviewers of Borgenicht's novels praised aspects of the fiction but also expressed reservations. Kirkus Reviews found Borgenicht's first novel, A Corpse in Diplomacy, "Fast paced but feminine". 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".
  
  