Bedelia
By: by Vera Caspary ; afterword by A.B. Emrys.
Series: Femmes fatales : women write pulp
Publisher: The Feminist Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781558615076; 9781558615083
Subjects: Women murderers -- Fiction; Serial murderers -- Fiction; Husbands -- Crimes against -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
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 can't 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 steel"--A 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."--Publisher's website.