In 2015, it was included as part of the Library of America's Women Crime Writers omnibus collection. An edition from Feminist Press became available in 2006. I Books released an edition in 2000, billing it as a 'lost classic ' however, this edition is out of print. Since its original publication, the novel has been reissued many times. Laura achieved an international readership and has been translated into German, Italian, Japanese and Dutch, and it was released as an Armed Services Edition for the American military during World War II. In 1946, Caspary sold the story for a fourth time, this time co-writing a theatrical version with George Sklar. Houghton Mifflin republished Laura in book form the next year afterwards, Caspary sold the film rights to Twentieth Century Fox, resulting in a 1944 hit movie starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. Originally, Laura ran in Colliers from October to November 1942 as a seven-part serial titled Ring Twice for Laura.

It is her best known work, and was adapted into a popular film in 1944, with Gene Tierney in the title role. it remains a compelling original.Laura (1943) is a detective novel by Vera Caspary. ' Laura will beguile and unsettle readers: a love story with a sinister underside. achieving a kind of perfection in its balance between low motives and high style.' -Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun Times Brava!' -Otto Penzler, Owner, The Mysterious Bookshop 'Everyone loves the movie, of course, but it is now possible again to read this stunning novel with one of the great surprise moments in the history of mystery fiction. A top-drawer mystery.' - The New York Times Caspary (1899-1987), who worked in advertising as a young woman before becoming a prolific author of novels and screenplays, knew that world well and delighted in satirizing it.' - The Washington Post The novel's third strength is Caspary's having set a noirish crime story in the Manhattan haute monde of ad agencies, fancy restaurants, and society folk as odious as they are self-satisfied. Its second strength is an ingenious plot twist that I won't spoil. The first is Waldo Lydecker, Laura Hunt's mentor, the vain deliciously nasty newspaper columnist who narrates. ' -Robert Polito, author of Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson 'Vera Caspary's gift was perhaps more subtle, and deadly. This 1942 psychological thriller is as gripping and brilliantly constructed as the Preminger film. No man could resist her charms-not even the hardboiled NYPD detective sent to investigate her murder.

Laura was the ideal 'modern woman' and the ultimate femme fatale.

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