Femmes Fatales Series Femmes Fatales restores to print the best of women’s writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-twentieth century. From mysteries to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era. Faith Baldwin SKYSCRAPER Vera Caspary BEDELIA LAURA THE MAN WHO LOVED HIS WIFE Gypsy Rose Lee THE G-STRING MURDERS MOTHER FINDS A BODY Evelyn Piper BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING Olive Higgins Prouty NOW, VOYAGER Valerie Taylor THE GIRLS IN 3-B STRANGER ON LESBOS RETURN TO LESBOS Tereska Torrès WOMEN’S BARRACKS BY CECILE Laura Vera Caspary Afterword by A. B. Emrys Published by the Feminist Press at the City University of New York The Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5406 New York, NY 10016 feministpress.org First Feminist Press Edition, 2005 Copyright © 1942, 1943 by Vera Caspary Afterword copyright 2005 by A.B. Emrys All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, used, or stored in any information retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the Feminist Press at the City University of New York, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Originally published by Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., with special arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company. Cover and text design by Drew Stevens Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Caspary, Vera 1904-1987. Laura / by Vera Caspary ; afterword by A.B. Emrys. p. cm. — (Femmes fatales : women write pulp) ISBN 978-1-55861-505-2 eISBN 978-1-55861-883-1 1. Police—New York (State)—New York—Fiction. 2. Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction. 3. Mistaken identity—Fiction. 4. Single women—Fiction. I. Title. II. Series. PS3503.A84L28 2006 813’.52dc22 2005029369 Contents
