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Published by the Feminist Press

at the City University of New York

The Graduate Center

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New York, NY 10016

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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