The Murder in the Stork Club and Other Mysteries by Vera Caspary Style:Trade Softcover Basil Willing

Basil Willing

the grandmaster of locked room mysteries and impossible disappearances

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The Murder in the Stork Club and Other Mysteries by Vera Caspary Style:Trade Softcover Basil WillingVera Caspary (1889 1987), playwright and novelist, is best remembered for the novel which led to the great Otto Preminger movie, Laura, but she also wrote novellas and novelettes which combined mystery and suspense with an awareness of gender and class issues. Working class sleuths in high class settings (like New York's famed Stork Club), sexual and work place tension, Nazi spies during the Second World War, complex characters all these elements were