Bedelia

by Vera Caspary

Book Overview

A novel of breathtaking suspense and a brilliant psychological portrait.

Charlie Horst has returned with his new bride Bedelia to his family home in Connecticut. Indulgently infatuated, Charlie is the luckiest man alive. What's not to love about Bedelia? She's gorgeous and complacent. She's also a gracious and ideal party host--luscious and decorative in blue velvet. And in public, she plays the part of worshipful wife...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558615075
• ISBN13: 9781558615076
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Feminist Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Bedilia

Bedelia was everything to please a man -- and she pleased many. How strange that a passion for percolators and copper pots shopuld help solve the curious riddle of her past.

Psychological Suspense in Connecticut

This is an entertaining suspense novel in the Laura vein. One can imagine a 1940s film noir movie starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews set in Connecticut, instead of the apparently lackluster British version that was produced. Caspary was a fine writer, and though the whodunnit and whathappened aspects are pretty clear about halfway through, the psychological suspense and descriptions of the manners of early 20th century Northeast upper middle class are fun.