Bedelia (Femmes Fatales: Women Write Pulp) Review

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Bedelia (Femmes Fatales: Women Write Pulp) ReviewYou've heard this story a thousand times: a man falls in love with a woman who may or may not have murdered her previous husbands/lovers and the man starts to wonder if he's going to be next. "Bedelia" is simply another telling of it. In this version, the man is Charlie Horst, a mild-mannered architect from Connecticut, and the woman is Bedelia, a seemingly perfect wife who seemingly lives for her husband says, but who may have left three or four husbands dead. Caspary is a very good writer, as she proved with her most famous novel, "Laura", and the first half of "Bedelia" provides an excellent set-up to this story. In the first one-hundred pages we are introduced to Bedelia, her husband and their friends and Caspary poses the thesis of the novel: is a docile "Stepford" wife necessarily a good thing? However, the novel falls apart somewhere in the middle. About halfway through the book, Charlie comes to suspect that Bedelia may be a killer and from then on the rest of the book is basically just Charlie sitting around his house and thinking about what he's going to do, which is quite frankly boring. By the last 30 or so pages, I found myself wishing that Bedelia would morph into Catherine Tramell and stab Charlie with an ice-pick, just so something would happen.
Overall, "Bedelia" is a reasonable entry into the "black widow" genre of literature, but if you really want a great book, read Caspary's "Laura" instead.
Bedelia (Femmes Fatales: Women Write Pulp) Overview
Long before Desperate Housewives, there was Bedelia: pretty, ultra femme, and "adoring as a kitten." A perfect housekeeper and lover, she wants nothing more than to please her insecure new husband, who can't believe his luck. But is Bedelia too good to be true? A mysterious new neighbor turns out to be a detective on the trail of a "kitten with claws of steel"—a picture-perfect wife with a string of dead husbands in her wake.

Caspary builds this tale to a peak of psychological suspense as her characters are trapped together by a blizzard. The true Bedelia, the woman who chose murder over a life on the street, reveals how she turns male fantasies of superiority into a deadly con.


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