Name: Laura
ISBN: 9781558615052

Vera Caspary

Basis for the famous film noir: a woman who kept men spellbound--even after her death.

Laura

his nose a direct inheritance from those dour ancestors who had sniffed sin with such constancy that their very nostrils had become aggressive.

Hanako T

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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? What power did she hold over the very different men in her life? How does her portrait bewitch even Mark McPherson, the hard-bitten detective assigned to find her murderer? One stormy night, Mark's investigation takes an unexpected turn...