num_pages: 213
description: 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 cant 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 steela 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.Femmes Fatales restores to print the best of womens writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-20th century. From mystery to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era. Enjoy the series: Bedelia; The Blackbirder; Bunny Lake Is Missing; By Cecile; The G-String Murders; The Girls in 3-B; In a Lonely Place; Laura; Mother Finds a Body; Now Voyager; Skyscraper; Stranger on Lesbos; Women's Barracks.
language: English
title: Bedelia
publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY