Laura — Vera Caspary

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 her killer, in a new edition of the classic mystery.

A KILLER rings the doorbell!

He waits -- and rings again. The door opens, She stands before him in a sheer negligee, more beautiful than he remembered. It is a shame to destroy such loveliness -- but there is no time. He lifts his gun and fires…

Laura Hunt exerted a strange fascination over men. Mark McPherson fell in love with her without ever having seen her. But he wondered at the men she chose as lovers. There was Shelby Carpenter, a gentlemanly gigolo, and fussy bitter Waldo Lydecker, a rejected suitor. What could they mean to her? Would either of them want to murder her? Laura wondered, too. The answer was revealed to her suddenly. The bell rang, just as it did on another fatal night. She opened the door and stared into the barrel of a gun…