The Murder of Leslie Crosby
The 1940 film The Letter, directed by William Wyler and starring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, and James Stephenson, remains one of the most enduring works of American film noir melodrama. The Murder of Leslie Crosbie is Read more
The 1940 film The Letter, directed by William Wyler and starring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, and James Stephenson, remains one of the most enduring works of American film noir melodrama.
The Murder of Leslie Crosbie is a speculative sequel—a work of fiction that imagines the world beyond the final frame of Wyler’s film. It does not retell The Letter, nor does it attempt to revise its events. Instead, it follows the aftermath: the legal reckoning, the emotional collapse, and the shifting alliances that emerge once Leslie’s lies and the suppressed letter can no longer be hidden.
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