![]() ![]() ![]() "(S)hould maintain sympathetic feelings in any normally susceptible breast, and the plot is managed most adroitly." - M.Willson Disher, Times Literary Supplement. ![]() Still, I imagine that people who like murders will like this one I shall like it better when I see it on the screen, where such situations are so very much better served." - Kate O'Brien, The Spectator Well, dropping the "psycho"-bit, it is quite a thriller in its way though I say it uncertainly, being no judge of these who-dun-it affairs, and always prone to drop behind the field before we are half-way home. " Laura, by Miss Vera Caspary, is a psycho-thriller, the wrapper tells me."It’s a riveting collision between the elegant and sophisticated world of New York journalism and the pressure cooker of homicide investigation, complete with a heroine who goes beyond the conventions of the femme fatale to take charge of her own life." - Val McDermid, The New York Times Book Review.Filmed as Laura in 1944, directed by Otto Preminger, and starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, and Vincent Price.First published serially, as Ring Twice for Laura, in Colliers in 1942, and as a book in 1943.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]()
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