Bedelia /
"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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Feminist Press at the City University of New York,
2005.
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| Edition: | 1st Feminist Press ed. |
| Series: | Femmes fatales : women write pulp.
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| Summary: | "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. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: Sun Dial Press, 1946. |
| Physical Description: | xv, 213 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1558615075 1558615083 9781558615076 9781558615083 |