Bedelia / Vera Caspary ; afterword by A.B. Emrys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caspary, Vera, 1899-1987.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Femmes fatales : women write pulp

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women murderers--Fiction.

Women murderers.

Husbands--Crimes against.

Husbands.

Serial murderers--Fiction.

Serial murderers.

Husbands--Crimes against--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Suspense fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv, 213 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First Feminist Press edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2005.

Summary:

"Long before Desperate Housewives, there was Bedelia: pretty, ultra femme, and "adoring as a kitten." A perfect housekeeper and lover, she wants nothing more than to please her insecure new husband, who can'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 "kitten with claws of steel"--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."--Publisher's website.

Notes:

Originally published: Sun Dial Press, 1946.

ISBN:

1558615075

1558615083

9781558615076

9781558615083

OCLC:

62085408