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Lethal Ladies

2004

Detective and mystery storiesMissing persons -- FictionPolice -- New York (State) -- New York -- FictionMistaken identity -- FictionSingle women -- FictionMissing personsMistaken identityPoliceSingle womenManhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- FictionNew York (State) -- New YorkNew York (State) -- New York -- Manhattan

Ethel Lina White and Vera Caspary were storytellers of the first order. So it's no wonder their books attracted the attention of two first-rate directors -- Alfred Hitchcock and Otto Preminger -- and translated so brilliantly to the silver screen. Both motion pictures attained icon status over the years and have been endlessly imitated, but never matched. Now discover -- or rediscover -- for yourself the original novels that inspired those classic films...and the writers who proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the female can be the deadlier variety of the species. In The Lady Vanishes, young Iris Henderson befriends an elderly governess while traveling on a train back to England. Sometime during their journey, the governess disappears -- yet no one on the train can remember seeing her! In Laura, a beautiful woman is murdered on a sweltering day in New York City. As hard-boiled detective Mark McPherson investigates, he's startled to find himself falling in love with her. Don't miss these two intriguing masterpieces of suspense -- each has a tantalizing twist!