Vera Caspary
Vera Caspary (1899–1987) was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for her novel Laura, which was adapted into a successful 1944 film. Caspary’s “main theme, whether in a murder mystery, drama or musical comedy, was the working woman and her right to lead her own life, to be independent,” said The New York Times.
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Thinking she is being escorted to a Halloween party by a masked guest, a schoolteacher finds herself in the middle of a gang war and a moral dilemma pitting her independence against two very different sorts of love.