![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She was hounded by the McCarthy witchhunts for her communist leanings, and published an autobiography, The Secrets of Grown-ups in 1976. ![]() In 1949 Caspary married the producer Isadore Goldsmith after a long-standing affair. Caspary also wrote several successful screenplays, and received a Screen Writers Guild Award in 1957. The film version is still feted as a classic early noir and its theme tune has become a jazz standard. Published in 1943, it was adapted for the big screen just one year later by Otto Preminger. 4 had a brief relationship and is now obsessed. A veteran detective Mark McPherson starts to investigate this tricky case, but soon finds out that few things make sense in Laura’s murder. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Laura (Otto Penzler Books), Caspary, Vera at the best online prices at eBay Free delivery for many products. She allegedly opened the door to her murderer. Caspary wrote twenty-one novels in total, including Bedelia (1945) and Stranger than Truth (1946), but Laura was her first major success. A beautiful and still aspiring socialite Laura Hunt is found murdered in her apartment in New York City. She then moved to New York to write for magazines, and also began writing stories which drew on her experiences as an independent, career-minded modern woman. Her working life began as a stenographer at a Chicago advertising agency, but she was determined to become a copywriter, and despite many setbacks in a male-dominated business, she eventually achieved her aim in 1920. Vera Caspary was born in November 1899 in Chicago. ![]()
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