Ring Twice For Laura by Vera Caspary is the 1942 serialized novel that would become famous as the 1944 Otto Preminger movie 'Laura.' Serialized over seven weeks in Collier's Weekly Magazine, it is the story of a New York City career woman mistakenly thought murdered in her own apartment and the three men most affected: her narcissistic former lover, her philandering fiancee, and the hard-boiled detective assigned to investigate her case.

With original illustrations by Earl Cordrey, this volume also contains MY "LAURA" AND OTTO'S written by Caspary in 1971 about the adaptation of her novel into Preminger's classic noir film.

Vera Caspary (1899–1987) was a writer of novels, plays, screenplays, and short stories. Though she claimed she was not a "real" mystery writer, her novels effectively merged women's quest for identity and love with murder plots. Independence is the key to her protagonists, with her novels revolving around women who are menaced, but who turn out to be neither victimized nor rescued damsels.

Ring Twice For Laura has 23 illustrations.