Long before Desperate Housewives, there was Bedelia: pretty, ultra femme, and ?adoring as a kitten.” A perfect housekeeper and lover, she wants nothing more than to please her insecure new husband, wh
With what Graham Greene once called her "devilish cunning," Vera Caspary offers one of her most suspenseful thrillers in this tale of love, jealousy, guilt, and hate.When Fletcher marries Elaine, his
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
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 h
The Library of America and editor Sarah Weinman redefine the classic era of American crime fiction with a landmark collection of four brilliant novels by the female pioneers of the genre, the women wh
