![]() " Laura will beguile and unsettle readers: a love story with a sinister underside. achieving a kind of perfection in its balance between low motives and high style." -Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun Times ![]() Brava!" -Otto Penzler, Owner, The Mysterious Bookshop "Everyone loves the movie, of course, but it is now possible again to read this stunning novel with one of the great surprise moments in the history of mystery fiction. ![]() A top-drawer mystery." - The New York Times Caspary (1899-1987), who worked in advertising as a young woman before becoming a prolific author of novels and screenplays, knew that world well and delighted in satirizing it." - The Washington Post Vera Caspary Laura Hardcover Januby Vera Caspary (Author) 16 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover 10.47 6 Used from 10.00 2 Collectible from 89. The novel's third strength is Caspary's having set a noirish crime story in the Manhattan haute monde of ad agencies, fancy restaurants, and society folk as odious as they are self-satisfied. Its second strength is an ingenious plot twist that I won't spoil. The first is Waldo Lydecker, Laura Hunt's mentor, the vain deliciously nasty newspaper columnist who narrates. " -Robert Polito, author of Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson "Vera Caspary's gift was perhaps more subtle, and deadly. This 1942 psychological thriller is as gripping and brilliantly constructed as the Preminger film. ![]() No man could resist her charms-not even the hardboiled NYPD detective sent to investigate her murder. ![]() Laura was the ideal "modern woman" and the ultimate femme fatale. ![]()
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