She was also a playwright and screenwriter, and was an important figure in the radical political causes of her day.Vera Louise Caspary (November 13, 1899-June 13, 1987) was a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. Several of her books were made into films, including Laura, Bedelia, and The Man Who Loved His Wife. The Huffington Post About the Author Vera Caspary (1904-1987) is best known for her skillfully crafted and psychologically complex murder mysteries.
Second, she delivered a stylistic tour de force. First, her feminist themes were far ahead of her time. The New York Times We forget how many advances Caspary brought to the genre. Review Quotes Miss Casparys main theme, whether in a murder mystery, drama or musical comedy, was the working woman and her right to lead her own life, to be independent. From mystery to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era with such titles as Now, Voyager Stella Dallas Bunny Lake is Missing The Girls in 3-B and more.
Caspary writes emotive entertainments, part romance, part suspense, about women destined to kill or doomed to die.-Kirkus Reviews A beautiful job.-The Boston HeraldThe Man Who Loved His Wife is part of the Femmes Fatales series, featuring the best of womens writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-20th century. Out of a web of love, jealousy, guilt, and hate, she has woven one of her most suspenseful thrillers. With what Graham Greene once called her devilish cunning, Vera Caspary reveals, with sure psychological insight, the strange desires that hide in the hearts of seemingly respectable people. He keeps a secret diary of his fantasized suspicions, making his impending suicide look like murder. Then an illness destroys his confidence, and all he can picture is her next affair. When Fletcher marries Elaine, his second wife, nineteen years his junior, he cant imagine a more passionate union. Book Synopsis A husband falls into a psychological spiral in a novel by the author of Laura, an expert at suspense and suspicion (The New York Times).
About the Book A jealous husband frames his wife for his own suicide so shell never love again.
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