Murder in the Stork Club and Other Stories
Contains four novellas: Stranger in the House; Sugar and Spice; The Murder in the Stork Club; Ruth.
In these deftly woven noir novellas, Vera Caspary draws on her own rich, independent life as a woman at a time of great social change, including her own experience of Manhattan''s Stork Club, which, from 1929 to 1965, was one of the most prestigious nightclubs in the world.
The title novella The Murde...
Contains four novellas: Stranger in the House; Sugar and Spice; The Murder in the Stork Club; Ruth.
In these deftly woven noir novellas, Vera Caspary draws on her own rich, independent life as a woman at a time of great social change, including her own experience of Manhattan''s Stork Club, which, from 1929 to 1965, was one of the most prestigious nightclubs in the world.
The title novella The Murde...
