Laura - Vera Caspary

This is Laura's book, although most of it is told by three men, the three men who knew her the best, because when the story opens Laura has already been murdered.
Some of the story is told by the nasty gossip columnist Waldo Lydecker, written partly out of gloating interest in tragedy of any kind and partly because Laura was the only person Waldo ever loved. It could also not have been written without the help of Shelby Carpenter, Laura's fiance, who knew more about her death than anyone suspected.
Most of it however, was written by Detective Mark McPherson, although Mark never heard of Laura until after she had been murdered. Often a detective's duty is to reconstruct the life of a victim, but not to the point where he falls in love with her. Here is the secret of Laura's death...and her life.