Laura (1943) - Vera Caspary
Category: Mystery
Tags: Mystery, Adults, Historical Fiction
Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins Release date: 06-08-10 Publisher: Audible Studios, The femme Fateles, 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 Lauras death, he becomes obsessed with her strange power., Laura won lasting renown as an Academy Award-nominated 1944 film, the greatest noir romance of all time. Vera Casparys equally haunting novel is remarkable for its stylish, hardboiled writing, its electrifying plot twists, and its darkly complex characters - including a woman who stands as the ultimate femme fatale., On a rainy night in Lauras swanky 5th Avenue walk-up apartment, while Mark McPherson sits underneath her painting looking through her diary, searching for a clue to her murder, Caspary suddenly turns an already great mystery-romance novel into a classic. We
