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Laura

By: Vera Caspary
Narrated by: Christian Rummel, Eileen Stevens, Oliver Wyman, L. J. Ganser
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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 her into a faceless corpse. As this tough cop probes the mystery of Laura's death, he becomes obsessed with her strange power.

Laura won lasting renown as an Academy Award-nominated 1944 film, the greatest noir romance of all time. Vera Caspary's equally haunting novel is remarkable for its stylish, hardboiled writing, its electrifying plot twists, and its darkly complex characters - including a woman who stands as the ultimate femme fatale.

©1942, 1943 Vera Caspary (P)2010 Audible, Inc. Classics Genre Fiction Modern Detectives Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Mystery Exciting

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Loved everything about this somewhat old fashioned yet sometimes startlingly contemporary tale, so famous as a classic film as well As novel … except! the rather purple prose which was probably intended but still sometimes painful. Overall very enjoyable in a hammy kind of a way.

Great performances of classic noir fiction

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What a fabulous story! Beautifully performed and the characters so perfectly real. Vera Caspar was a genius in her building suspence and the lush description evoking the era perfectly.

1000 times better than the movie!

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