The Man Who Loved His Wife

Vera Caspary
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When Elaine and Fletcher marry, their relationship is passionate. She is a beautiful model; he is a loud businessman, nineteen years her elder. Then he is stricken by illness, which leaves him voiceless and impotent. Intent on ending his own life, and forbidding her to love anyone else, he plots his suicide to look like murder. Jealousy knows no bounds.
Genres: FictionNoirMystery ThrillerClassicsMystery
400 Pages

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