The Gardenia and Out of the Blue — Vera Caspary

Published for the first time in print. Agnes receives few compliments, and Henry Preble is not so bad-looking even if he does have a reputation for cornering girls at work. In the eyes of the world, knowing that you're on the shelf at twenty-four can do strange things to a girl. So strange that you might wake up one morning with almost no recollection of the previous night's events . . . Published for the first time in the UK, The Gardenia , the basis for Fritz Lang's 1953 classic Hollywood noir film The Blue Gardenia , is a gripping story of suspense and a brilliant expos of the press sensationalism of 1950s America. This volume also contains Out of the Blue , which was made into a comedy film in 1947 starring George Brent and Carole Landis.