Stranger Than Truth is a 1946 mystery novel by the American writer Vera Caspary.

Unlike her previous two works, Laura and Bedelia, it was not adapted into a film.

John Ansell, the newly-appointed young editor of a true crime magazine wants to run a story about an unsolved murder, but finds the article is quashed by those above him.

When he tries to pursue the story, he is warned off by both the magazine's owner Noble Barclay and his henchman Munn.

He survives but his concerns grow that Eleanor, Barclay's daughter, may be mixed up in the original murder.