![]() ![]() Secrets are being spilled and weaknesses – probed as the characters engage in a dangerous psychological “cat and mouse” game, leading to some unexpected results. This is where the “battle of wits” takes place, with each of the characters being just a step away from uncovering the truth. ![]() Many character dialogues in Laura are a gold-mine. This multiple-narrators perspective makes this noir novella so much brainier and more intriguing to read. Partly inspired by Wilkie Collins’s novel The Woman in White, Laura is narrated in the first person by several alternating and often unreliable narrators. ![]() It soon turns out that Shelby is a possible insurance beneficiary upon Laura’s death, and, then, someone also buys Laura’s portrait that hung on her apartment wall …could it have been the murderer? Clues are scattered throughout this clever mystery-noir, which also has a twist “to die for”. Worse still, McPherson finds himself falling under the charms of Laura’s personality and her world as a number of possible murder suspects emerge, including Laura’s low-paid fiancé Shelby Carpenter and Laura’s friend, eccentric columnist Waldo Lydecker. A veteran detective Mark McPherson starts to investigate this tricky case, but soon finds out that few things make sense in Laura’s murder. ![]() She allegedly opened the door to her murderer. Ī beautiful and still aspiring socialite Laura Hunt is found murdered in her apartment in New York City. “ To solve the puzzle of, must first resolve the mystery of Laura’s life”. ![]()
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