Watch Full movie: Laura (1944), online, free. A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating. Vera Caspary. I’ve seen the movie at least twice, but never read the book. Frankly, I had never seen it on any of the shelves of the used book stores I frequented. The novel is included in a new issue from The Library of America, however, titled Women Crime Writers. Laura By Vera Caspary [eBook] Laura PDF READ ONLINE Laura Media PDF Group Co., Ltd 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 realizes he s been seduced by a dead woman or has he Laura won lasting renown as an.
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...
- Random House; December 2012
- ISBN: 9781448138753
- Read online, or download in secure EPUB format
- Title: Laura
- Author: Vera Caspary
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
Subject categories
- Fiction > Crime
- Fiction > Genre Fiction
ISBNs
- 9780099572787
- 9781448138753
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'The novel has three great strengths. The first is Waldo Lydecker, the vain, deliciously nasty newspaper columnist ...Its second strength is an ingenious plot twist ...The third 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'
About The Author
Laura By Vera Caspary Free Downloads
Vera Caspary was born in November 1899 in Chicago. Her working life began as a stenographer at a Chicago advertising agency, but she was determined to become a copywriter, and despite many setbacks in a male-dominated business, she eventually achieved her aim in 1920. She then moved to New York to write for magazines, and also began writing stories which drew on her experiences as an independent, career-minded modern woman. Caspary wrote twenty-one novels in total, including Bedelia (1945) and Stranger than Truth (1946), but Laura was her first major success. Published in 1943, it was adapted for the big screen just one year later by Otto Preminger. The film version is still feted as a classic early noir and its theme tune has become a jazz standard. Caspary also wrote several successful screenplays, and received a Screen Writers Guild Award in 1957. In 1949 Caspary married the producer Isadore Goldsmith after a long-standing affair. She was hounded by the McCarthy witchhunts for her communist leanings, and published an autobiography, The Secrets of Grown-ups in 1976. Vera Caspary died in June 1987.
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...
- Random House; December 2012
- ISBN: 9781448138753
- Read online, or download in secure EPUB format
- Title: Laura
- Author: Vera Caspary
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
Subject categories
- Fiction > Crime
- Fiction > Genre Fiction
Vera Caspary Laura
ISBNs
- 9780099572787
- 9781448138753
In The Press
Laura By Vera Caspary free. download full
'The novel has three great strengths. The first is Waldo Lydecker, the vain, deliciously nasty newspaper columnist ...Its second strength is an ingenious plot twist ...The third 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'
About The Author
Vera Caspary was born in November 1899 in Chicago. Her working life began as a stenographer at a Chicago advertising agency, but she was determined to become a copywriter, and despite many setbacks in a male-dominated business, she eventually achieved her aim in 1920. She then moved to New York to write for magazines, and also began writing stories which drew on her experiences as an independent, career-minded modern woman. Caspary wrote twenty-one novels in total, including Bedelia (1945) and Stranger than Truth (1946), but Laura was her first major success. Published in 1943, it was adapted for the big screen just one year later by Otto Preminger. The film version is still feted as a classic early noir and its theme tune has become a jazz standard. Caspary also wrote several successful screenplays, and received a Screen Writers Guild Award in 1957. In 1949 Caspary married the producer Isadore Goldsmith after a long-standing affair. She was hounded by the McCarthy witchhunts for her communist leanings, and published an autobiography, The Secrets of Grown-ups in 1976. Vera Caspary died in June 1987.