Laura

In the doorway of an elegant New York apartment, blood seeps over silk negligee, over polished wood floors and plush carpet: a beautiful young woman lies dead, her face disfigured by a single gun shot. But who was Laura? What power did she hold over the very different men in her life? How does her portrait bewitch even Mark McPherson, the hard-bitten detective assigned to find her murderer? One stormy night, Mark's investigation takes an unexpected turn...

Literature & Fiction

Vera Caspary

Contemporary

Vintage Classics

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

H.Hamilton

Dreamers

Pocket

Secret of Elizabeth

Lethal Ladies: The Lady Vanishes / Laura / Rebecca (Mystery Guild Lost Classics Omnibus) [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2004] Ethel Lina White; Vera Caspary and Daphne DuMaurier

Lethal Ladies: The Lady Vanishes / Laura / Rebecca (Mystery Guild Lost Classics Omnibus)

Daphne DuMaurier

Ethel Lina White

Mystery Guild

Ethel Lina White and Vera Caspary were storytellers of the first order. So it's no wonder their books attracted the attention of two first-rate directors-Alfred Hitchcock and Otto Preminger-and translated so brilliantly to the silver screen. Both motion pictures attained icon status over the years and have been endlessly imitated, but never matched. Now discover-or rediscover-for yourself the original novels that inspired those classic films...and the writers who proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the female can be the deadlier variety of the species. In The Lady Vanishes, young Iris Henderson befriends an elderly governess while traveling on a train back to England. Sometime during their journey, the governess disappears-yet no one on the train can remember seeing her! In Laura, a beautiful woman is murdered on a sweltering day in New York City. As hard-boiled detective Mark McPherson investigates, he's startled to find himself falling in love with her. Don't miss these two intriguing masterpieces of suspense-each has a tantalizing twist!

Lethal Ladies: The Lady Vanishes & Laura

Ethel Linda White

Doubleday Large Print Home Library

When Mark McPherson first falls in love with Laura, he knows he's in love with a phantom for Laura is dead, and he's in charge of her murder investigation. From her portrait, her letters, her personal effects and from his contacts with the three men who loved her, Mark has created an image of a woman tantalizingly alive and real. When she appears in the midst of a thunderstorm, very much alive after all, it is revealed that Laura's best friend (and rival) was the true victim of the crime. But now, all evidence seems to point to Laura's guilt. Despite his growing love for her a love which Laura seems to return Mark is about to pin the crime on her, when the real murderer appears and tries to do away with the girl he meant to kill in the first place Laura.

Laura - Acting Edition

George Sklar

Dramas & Plays

Dramatist's Play Service

Long before Desperate Housewives, there was Bedelia: pretty, ultra femme, and "adoring as a kitten." A perfect housekeeper and lover, she wants nothing more than to please her insecure new husband, who can't believe his luck. But is Bedelia too good to be true?A mysterious new neighbor turns out to be a detective on the trail of a "kitten with claws of steel"a picture-perfect wife with a string of dead husbands in her wake. Caspary builds this tale to a peak of psychological suspense as her characters are trapped together by a blizzard. The true Bedelia, the woman who chose murder over a life on the street, reveals how she turns male fantasies of superiority into a deadly con.Femmes Fatales restores to print the best of women’s writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-20th century. From mystery to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era. Enjoy the series: Bedelia; Bunny Lake Is Missing; By Cecile; The G-String Murders; The Girls in 3-B; Laura; The Man Who Loved His Wife; Mother Finds a Body; Now, Voyager; Return to Lesbos; Skyscraper; Stranger on Lesbos; Stella Dallas; Women's Barracks.

Bedelia

White Lion Publrs

Long before Desperate Housewives, there was Bedelia: pretty, ultra femme, and adoring as a kitten. A perfect housekeeper and lover, she wants nothing more than to please her insecure new husband, who can't believe his luck. But is Bedelia too good to be true? A mysterious new neighbor turns out to be a detective on the trail of a kitten with claws of steel a picture-perfect wife with a string of dead husbands in her wake. Caspary builds this tale to a peak of psychological suspense as her characters are trapped together by a blizzard. The true Bedelia, the woman who chose murder over a life on the street, reveals how she turns male fantasies of superiority into a deadly con.

Romance

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

CRIME AND MYSTERY FROM THE AUTHOR OF LAURA! Vera Caspary (1889-1987), playwright and novelist, is best remembered for the novel which led to the great Otto Preminger movie, Laura, but she also wrote novellas and novelettes which combined mystery and suspense with an awareness of gender and class issues. Working-class sleuths in high-class settings (like New York's famed Stork Club), sexual and work-place tension, Nazi spies during the Second World War, complex characters -- all these elements were combined in Caspary s writing with an impeccable smoothness in plotting. In one story, she even has a gathering of suspects at the denouement in the tradition of Agatha Christie. The Murder in the Stork Club and Other Mysteries is edited by Caspary-expert A. B. Emrys

The Murder at the Stork Club and Other Mysteries

Crippen & Landru, Publishers

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