The Murder in the Stork Club and Other Mysteries by Vera Caspary Style:Trade Softcover INSPECTOR APPLEBY INVESTIGATES Under the

INSPECTOR APPLEBY INVESTIGATES Under the pseudonym of Michael Innes

Between 1929 and 1935

she’s the author of eleven novels: eight Laura Fleming mysteries set in Byerly

the creator of Superintendent Charlie Salter of the Metropolitan Toronto Police

The Murder in the Stork Club and Other Mysteries by Vera Caspary Style:Trade Softcover INSPECTOR APPLEBY INVESTIGATES Under theVera Caspary (1889 1987), playwright and novelist, is best remembered for the novel which led to the great Otto Preminger movie, Laura, but she also wrote novellas and novelettes which combined mystery and suspense with an awareness of gender and class issues. Working class sleuths in high class settings (like New York's famed Stork Club), sexual and work place tension, Nazi spies during the Second World War, complex characters all these elements were