Bedelia (Femmes Fatales)

Bedelia (Femmes Fatales)

<div>Long before <I>Desperate Housewives</I>, 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?<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR><B>Femmes Fatales</B> restores to print the best of women’s 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: <I>Bedelia</I>; <I>Bunny Lake Is Missing</I>; <I>By Cecile</I>; <I>The G-String Murders</I>; <I>The Girls in 3-B</I>; <I>Laura</I>; <I>The Man Who Loved His Wife</I>; <I>Mother Finds a Body</I>; <I>Now, Voyager</I>; <I>Return to Lesbos</I>; <I>Skyscraper</I>; <I>Stranger on Lesbos</I>; <I>Stella Dallas</I>; <I>Women's Barracks</I>.</div>