Lethal Ladies

Ethel Lina White and Vera Caspary were storytellers of the first order. So it's no wonder their books attracted the attention of two first-rate directors -- Alfred Hitchcock and Otto Preminger -- and translated so brilliantly to the silver screen. Both motion pictures attained icon status over the years and have been endlessly imitated, but never matched. Now discover -- or rediscover -- for yourself the original novels that inspired those classic films...and the writers who proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the female can be the deadlier variety of the species. In The Lady Vanishes,…