Bøker av Vera Caspary

A jealous husband frames his wife for his own suicide so she'll never love again.

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 Times

Vera Caspary, the celebrated author of Laura, tells her own story in this captivating autobiography. With a career that spanned from the 1920s through 1970s, one that produced over twenty novels, in addition to her many credits for film and theater, Caspary centered her life around a passion for writing. From her early experiences at an advertisement agencywhere she developed a correspondence school and invented its ';famed' instructorto the struggles of being gray-listed in the McCarthy Era, Caspary constantly found a way to turn her creative needs into viable work. Caspary recalls the rest of a full life, too, including her flirtation with communism, travels across Europe, and a marriage. Caspary's skillful writing makes her incredible depictions of people, and the times in which they lived, jump off the page.

Vocal score on hire. Perusal material available.|7 women, 9 men

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?