Laura by Vera Caspary (Vintage Classics, £7.99)
Otto Preminger's 1944 film did an excellent job of relaying the noir-ish effects and perhaps surprising moral complexity of Caspary's tale of Svengali-type newspaper columnist Waldo Lydecker, whose muse, the beautiful Laura, is found shot in the face one morning. Twists and turns give the plot its pace, and hard-bitten cop Mark McPherson its hero.
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