The Murder in the Stork Club and Other Mysteries by Vera Caspary Style:Trade Softcover the grandmaster of locked room

the grandmaster of locked room mysteries and impossible disappearances

Basil Willing

people were up in arms about the “trick” in the story

a disappearance from a swimming pool

the creator of Superintendent Charlie Salter of the Metropolitan Toronto Police

The Murder in the Stork Club and Other Mysteries by Vera Caspary Style:Trade Softcover the grandmaster of locked roomVera Caspary (1889 1987), playwright and novelist, is best remembered for the novel which led to the great Otto Preminger movie, Laura, but she also wrote novellas and novelettes which combined mystery and suspense with an awareness of gender and class issues. Working class sleuths in high class settings (like New York's famed Stork Club), sexual and work place tension, Nazi spies during the Second World War, complex characters all these elements were