Vera Caspary (1904-1987) is best known for her skillfully crafted and psychologically complex murder mysteries. Several of her books were made into films, including Laura, Bedelia, and The Man Who Loved His Wife. She was also a playwright and screenwriter, and was an important figure in the radical political causes of her day.
16 电子书 Vera Caspary
Vera Caspary: Man Who Loved His Wife
A husband falls into a psychological spiral in a novel by the author of Laura, “an expert at suspense and suspicion” (The New York Times).When Fletcher marries Elaine, his second wife, …
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Vera Caspary: Laura
The greatest noir romance of all time, Laura won lasting renown as an Academy Award-nominated 1944 film: “an intriguing melodrama. . . . A top-drawer mystery.” (The New York Times)
A brutal murder. …
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Vera Caspary: Stranger Than Truth
John Ansell, the new editor of Truth and Crime magazine, takes his appointment, and the title of the magazine, at face value. Until his boss, President of Barclay-Truth Inc., Noble Barclay, rejects …
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Vera Caspary: Weeping and The Laughter
Out in the Rolls-Royce, Emmy Arkwright nearly collides with Nat Volck in Beverly Hills. Emmy and Nat are neighbours, yet belong to separate worlds: she is a wealthy, successful fashion designer; he …
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Vera Caspary: False Face
It was the party of a lifetime – but she never arrived…’Vera Caspary is an expert at suspense and suspicion’ New York Times When popular young schoolteacher Nina Redfield reports to police the …
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Vera Caspary: Husband
Stuart Howell is a promoter with a million-dollar proposition on the line.Jean Mc Veigh is young, wealthy and lonely. Very lonely.With Jean’s self-loathing making her prone to suicide attempts, …
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Vera Caspary: Evvie
It’s 1920s Chicago, and Louise and Evvie, who have known each other since school, share an apartment. Worldly Evvie, a painter and dancer – supposedly married at seventeen and then divorced – is …
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Vera Caspary: Chosen Sparrow
Leni Neumann is rebuilding her life as a Jewish survivor in post-war Vienna, having lost her mother in a Nazi prison. As a singer going from caf to caf , she meets all kinds of people: good people, …
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Vera Caspary: Final Portrait
‘Vera Caspary and others were the forerunners of Gillian Flynn, Megan Abbott, Laura Lippmann and of course, Paula Hawkins’ Irish Times Renowned painter Henry Leveret is found shot dead in his …
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Vera Caspary: Secret of Elizabeth
Kate and Allan Royce are driving home from a party in Westport, Connecticut one night when they see a girl in a beautiful but muddied dress wandering in the road and stop to pick her up. She is …
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Vera Caspary: Murder in the Stork Club and Other Stories
Contains four novellas: Stranger in the House; Sugar and Spice; The Murder in the Stork Club; Ruth.In these deftly woven noir novellas, Vera Caspary draws on her own rich, independent life as a woman …
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Vera Caspary: Gardenia and Out of the Blue
Agnes receives few compliments, and Henry Preble is not so bad-looking even if he does have a reputation for cornering girls at work. In the eyes of the world, knowing that you’re on the shelf at …
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Vera Caspary: 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 …
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€9.49
Vera Caspary: Secrets of Grown-Ups
Vera Caspary, the celebrated author of Laura, tells her own story in this captivating autobiography. With a career that spanned from the 1920s through 1970s, one that produced over twenty …
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€11.36
Vera Caspary: Stranger Than Truth
Vera Caspary, the famed author of Laura, gives us another gripping crime drama, told through shifting points of view. John Ansell, young and idealistic editor of Truth and Crime magazine, …
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Vera Caspary: Bedelia
“You must read Bedelia”, the seductive black-widow thriller by the author of the classic film noir, Laura (The New York Times). Charlie Horst has returned with his new bride, …
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