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Laura
Av Vera Caspary
Häftad, 2026
136 kr
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When the woman you love may be dead, or worse - unknowable - obsession takes over.A young woman is found dead in her Manhattan apartment. In the aftermath, the men who knew her begin to tell their stories: a possessive mentor, a devoted fiancé, a cynical columnist. At the centre of it all is Laura: …
Wedding in Paris
Häftad, 1956
223 kr
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Vocal score on hire. Perusal material available.7 women, 9 men
Laura
A compelling and pioneering classic of noir fiction from the mid-century's queen of the genre
Av Vera Caspary
E-bok, 2012
105 kr
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When the woman you love may be dead, or worse - unknowable - obsession takes over.A young woman is found dead in her Manhattan apartment. In the aftermath, the men who knew her begin to tell their stories: a possessive mentor, a devoted fiancé, a cynical columnist. At the centre of it all is Laura: …
Stranger Than Truth
Av Vera Caspary
E-bok, 2016
51 kr
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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 his ''Unsolved Mystery of the Month'' article, an investigation into the death of Warren G. Wilson, …
Weeping and The Laughter
Av Vera Caspary
E-bok, 2016
45 kr
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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 is a doctor who trained during World War Two. But when Nat gets a call one night telling him Emmy has …
False Face
Av Vera Caspary
E-bok, 2016
45 kr
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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 whereabouts of Bushie Neal, a criminal on the run, she sets off a chain of events over which she has …
Husband
Av Vera Caspary
E-bok, 2016
45 kr
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Stuart Howell is a promoter with a million-dollar proposition on the line. Jean McVeigh is young, wealthy and lonely. Very lonely. With Jean''s self-loathing making her prone to suicide attempts, Stuart sees a neat way to make a lot of money. After a whirlwind courtship, they marry, and Jean is at …
Evvie
Av Vera Caspary
E-bok, 2016
23 kr
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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 living on her alimony. Louise is a successful advertising copywriter and in love with her boss. …
Chosen Sparrow
Av Vera Caspary
E-bok, 2016
44 kr
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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 café to café, she meets all kinds of people: good people, who want to leave the horrors of war behind; neurotics, who hope to restore days of perverse glory. …
Final Portrait
Av Vera Caspary
E-bok, 2016
23 kr
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''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 downtown studio, and his estranged son, Michael, returns to his family and his father''s circle of …
Secret of Elizabeth
A masterpiece of psychological suspense
Av Vera Caspary
E-bok, 2016
45 kr
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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 take her into their home while the police try to …
Murder in the Stork Club and Other Stories
Av Vera Caspary
E-bok, 2016
50 kr
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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 at a time of great social change, including her own experience of Manhattan''s Stork Club, which, …
Gardenia and Out of the Blue
Av Vera Caspary
E-bok, 2018
45 kr
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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 can do strange things to a girl. So strange that you might wake up one morning with almost …
Secret of Elizabeth
A masterpiece of psychological suspense
Av Vera Caspary
Häftad, 2022
132 kr
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A beautiful woman - with no memory - and the people who claim to know her may not have her best interests at heart...'Vera Caspary is an expert at suspense and suspicion' New York TimesKate and Allan Royce are driving home from a party in Westport, Connecticut one night when they see a girl in a …
Bedelia
Av Vera Caspary
E-bok, 2012
197 kr
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"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, Bedelia, to his family home in Connecticut. Indulgently infatuated, Charlie is the luckiest man alive. What''s not to love …
Man Who Loved His Wife
Av Vera Caspary
E-bok, 2014
197 kr
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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, nineteen years his junior, he can''t imagine a more passionate union. Then an illness destroys his confidence, and …
