New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
The Feminist Press
06 April-June
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
The Feminist Press
APRIL-JUNE 06
Vera Caspary
Laura
Pbk published April 2006 by The Feminist Press at £12.50
ISBN: 1558615059
Laura Hunt was the ideal modern woman: beautiful, elegant, highly ambitious, and utterly mysterious. No man could resist her charms-not even the hardboiled NYPD detective sent to find out who turned her into a faceless corpse. As this tough cop probes the mystery of Laura's death, he becomes obsessed with her strange power. Soon he realises he's been seduced by a dead woman - or has he? "Laura" won lasting renown as an Academy Award-nominated 1944 film, the greatest noir romance of all time. Vera Caspary's equally haunting novel is remarkable for its stylish, hardboiled writing, its electrifying plot twists, and its darkly complex characters-including a woman who stands as the ultimate femme fatale.
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Vera Caspary
Bedelia
Published April 2006 by The Feminist Press at £12.50
ISBN: 1558615075
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 neighbour 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.
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