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Laura

Vera Caspary

1943176 pagesabout 3–4 hours
1943
first published
  • 1943Houghton Mifflin Company · 237 pages · ENG
  • 1944Sun Dial Press · 237 pages · ENG
  • 1970Hamish Hamilton · ENGISBN 9780241018217
  • 1977Queens House · 237 pages · ENGISBN 9780892440665
  • 2002ImPress · 262 pages · ENGISBN 9780762188765
  • 2006The Feminist Press · 219 pages · ENGISBN 9781558615052
  • 2013Penguin Random House · 176 pages · ENGISBN 9780099572787
  • 2000I Books · 240 pages · ENGISBN 9780743400107

Laura Hunt was the ideal modern woman: beautiful, elegant, highly ambitious, and utterly mysterious. No man could resist her charms—not even the hardboiled NYPD detective sent to find out who turned her into a faceless corpse. As this tough cop probes the mystery of Laura’s death, he becomes obsessed with her strange power. Soon he realizes he’s been seduced by a dead woman—or has he?

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AtmosphereNoir

How it reads

Plot intensityEventful

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ThemesJustice
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