Vera Caspary,A.B. Emrys
Long before ,Desperate Housewives,, there was Bedelia: pretty, ultra femme, and â€œadoring as a kitten.â€ A perfect housekeeper and lover, she wants nothing more than to please her insecure new husband, who canâ€™t believe his luck. But ,is, Bedelia too good to be true? A mysterious new neighbor turns out to be a detective on the trail of a â€œkitten with claws of steelâ€â€”a picture-perfect wife with a string of dead husbands in her wake.,Caspary builds this tale to a peak of psychological suspense as her characters are trapped together by a blizzard. The true Bedelia, the woman who chose murder over a life on the street, reveals how she turns male fantasies of superiority into a deadly con.,Femmes Fatales, restores to print the best of womenâ€™s writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-20th century. From mystery to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era. Enjoy the series: ,Bedelia; The Blackbirder; Bunny Lake Is Missing; By Cecile; The G-String Murders; The Girls in 3-B; In a Lonely Place; Laura; Mother Finds a Body; Now, Voyager; Skyscraper; Stranger on Lesbos; Women's Barracks,.
Mystery,Fiction,Mystery,Noir,Pulp,Thriller,Mystery,Crime,Historical,Classics,Suspense,Feminism
Bedelia