When Laura turns out to be very much alive, however, she becomes the prime suspect. As he learns more about Laura, Mark – not the most sentimental of men – begins to fall in love with her memory. These individual stories all revolve around the apparent murder of the title character, a successful New York advertiser killed in the doorway of her apartment with a shotgun blast that obliterated her face.ĭetective Mark McPherson, assigned to the case, begins investigating the two men who were closest to Laura: her former lover, a narcissistic middle-aged writer named Waldo Lydecker, and her fiance, the philandering Shelby Carpenter. Like Wilkie Collins' novel The Woman in White (1859), Laura is narrated in the first person by several alternating characters. In 2015, it was included as part of the Library of America's Women Crime Writers omnibus collection. An edition from Feminist Press became available in 2006. I Books released an edition in 2000, billing it as a "lost classic " however, this edition is out of print. Since its original publication, the novel has been reissued many times.
Laura achieved an international readership and has been translated into German, Italian, Japanese and Dutch, and it was released as an Armed Services Edition for the American military during World War II.
In 1946, Caspary sold the story for a fourth time, this time co-writing a theatrical version with George Sklar. Houghton Mifflin republished Laura in book form the next year afterwards, Caspary sold the film rights to Twentieth Century Fox, resulting in a 1944 hit movie starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. Originally, Laura ran in Colliers from October to November 1942 as a seven-part serial titled Ring Twice for Laura. It is her best known work, and was adapted into a popular film in 1944, with Gene Tierney in the title role. OL10675789W Page_number_confidence 93.82 Pages 180 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210709163500 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 317 Scandate 20210708020512 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780099572787 Tts_version 4.Laura (1943) is a detective novel by Vera Caspary. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 11:00:50 Boxid IA40171219 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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