Ring Twice For Laura

Ring Twice For Laura by Vera Caspary (1899-1987) is the 1942 serialized novel that would become famous as the 1944 Otto Preminger movie 'Laura.' Serialized over seven weeks in Collier's Weekly Magazine, it is the story of a New York City career woman mistakenly thought murdered in her own apartment and the three men most affected: her narcissistic former lover, her philandering fiancee, and the hard-boiled detective assigned to investigate her case. With original illustrations by Earl Cordrey, this volume also contains MY LAURA AND OTTO'S written by Caspary in 1971 about the adaptation of her novel into Preminger's classic noir film.