Vera Caspary

• 1972
• / Suspense
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It was two o’clock on a Saturday morning and someone had just tried to kill her… She wanted to scream, but her voice defied her. No one would even come to her rescue in the deserted brownstone. She knew she ought to report the attempted mur...

• 1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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The story of the life and murder of Laura is narrated by three very different men--gossip columnist Waldo Lydecker, her fiance Shelby Carpenter, and Detective Mark McPherson, whose job is to reconstruct the life of the enigmatic murder victim to find...

• Feb-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Dec-1991
• / Contemporary Romance
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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 suffering from amnesia, so they name her Elizabeth X and...

• Oct-2001
• / Contemporary Romance
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'Evvie,' by the author of 'Laura'“Caspary is an expert at suspense and suspicion…She is also expert at evoking the flavor of a decade when martinis were drunk in coffee cups and rumbles were car seats.” -- The New York TimesFanny Butcher, the l...

• Oct-2009
• / Mystery
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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 ...

• Oct-2009
• / Mystery
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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 ...

• Jul-2013
• / General Fiction
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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, wants to breathe new life into the stale and formulaic public...

• Feb-2017
• / Mystery
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Ring Twice For Laura by Vera Caspary (1899-1987) is the 1942 serialized novel that would become famous as the 1944 Otto Preminger movie 'Laura.' Serialized over seven weeks in Collier's Weekly Magazine, it is the story of a New York City career woman...

• Mar-2018
• / General Fiction
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Published for the first time in print. 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 twenty-four c...

• / Contemporary Romance
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CHAMPAGNE and CAVIAR Paradise-wise, Adam J. Niles, the self-styled author-sociologist , had it made. His publisher’s expense account took him to Europe and covered the small necessities of life -- small splits of champagne, small caviar eggs ...

• / Contemporary Romance
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Bedelia was everything to please a man. She was small and cuddly, never argued or lost her temper, and she made an adoring wife to Charles Horst, who had met her at Colorado Springs and had taken her back home to Connecticut as his bride. But beneath...

• / Contemporary Romance
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Parting Gesture Elaine: Ripe, passionate, womanly -- she was married to an older man no longer able to be her husband. Fletcher: His goal in life was suicide -- but he wasn’t going to reach it until her found a way to make his wife look like ...