Laura Hunt was the ideal modern woman: beautiful, elegant, highly ambitious, and utterly mysterious. No man could resist her charmsnot 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 womanor has he? "Laura" won lasting renown as an Academy Award-nominated 1944 film, the greatest noir romance of all time. Vera Caspary s equally haunting novel is remarkable for its stylish, hardboiled writing, its electrifying plot twists, and its darkly complex charactersincluding a woman who stands as the ultimate femme fatale. Femmes Fatales restores to print the best of women s writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-20th century. From mystery to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era. Enjoy the series: "Bedelia"; "Bunny Lake Is Missing"; "By Cecile"; "The G-String Murders"; "The Girls in 3-B"; "Laura"; "The Man Who Loved His Wife"; "Mother Finds a Body"; "Now, Voyager"; "Return to Lesbos"; "Skyscraper"; "Stranger on Lesbos"; "Stella Dallas"; "Women's Barracks.

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