Cornell Woolrich

Trapped in his apartment by a broken leg, Hal Jeffries takes up watching his neighbors as a way to alleviate boredom and begins to suspect that one of them is a murderer, in the classic suspense tale, from a collection of five thrillers by the author of The Bride Wore Black. Reprint.

Rear Window

She was mysterious and beautiful in her various guises as a sultry blond, prim brunette, dazzling redhead, or gracefully aging matron, but wherever she went, a perfectly ordinary man would die a violent, painful death, in a chilling novel that inspired the 1968 noir film. Reprint.

The Bride Wore Black

Middle-aged Louis Durand, whose fiance died 15 years ago on the eve of their wedding, decides to take one more chance on love and marry a woman he knows only through correspondence. When she arrives, she's younger and more beautiful that he had expected--and far more deadly.

Waltz Into Darkness

Phantom Lady

It Had to Be Murder

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Including the complete novels "I Married a Dead Man" and "Waltz into Darkness" plus "Rear Window" and four other short stories, "The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus" provides a thrilling collection of classic works from the quintessential master of noir fiction.

The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus

Cornell Woolrich's brilliant New York noir thriller, now in paperback with a stunning new cover and new introduction.

Deadline at Dawn

LA NOVIA VESTIDA DE NEGRO

A Series of Suspense

Literary Noir

Roman

Der schwarze Engel

I Married a Dead Man

William Irish

Sentenced to death for murdering his wife, Henderson can prove his innocence only by locating his alibi, a mysterious woman who has vanished without a trace. Reprint.

Black Angel

REAR WINDOW AND OTHER MURDEROUS TALES is a brand new, never before seen collection featuring nine of famed crime and suspense writer Cornell Woolrich’s most riveting short stories. At its center is “Rear Window,” originally titled “It Had to be Murder,” the story Alfred Hitchcock adapted into his classic 1954 suspense film starring James Stewart. Each tale within this collection revolves around a murder, whether from the point of view of the murderer himself, the investigating detective, a witness, the falsely accused, or an innocent spouse. Woolrich masterfully reveals the psychological toll the gruesome act of murder takes on all those involved. His writing brims with suspense, fear, paranoia, anxiety, mystery, and the economic desperation of the Great Depression, in which many of his stories are set. A reader will find no finer suspense fiction than in these nine classic Window-The Corpse Next Door-Morning After Murder-Two Murders, One Crime-Dusk to Dawn-Silent as the Grave-Murder at the Automat-Crazy House-New York BluesCornell George Hopley-Woolrich (1903–1968) is one of America's best crime and suspense writers, and sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish or George Hopley. He invented and mastered the genre of "pulp-fiction" and wrote hundreds of short stories, novellas and full-length novels, including The Bride Wore Black. Many of his works were adapted into films, television shows and radio programs.

Rear Window and Other Murderous Tales

A Collection of Stories

Nightwebs

The basis for the classic 1940s movie from “the supreme master of suspense . . . whose novels and short stories define the essence of noir nihilism” (The New York Times Book Review). In this classic crime novel, a panic-stricken young wife races against time to prove that her convicted husband did not murder his mistress. Writing in first person from the wife’s viewpoint, Woolrich evokes her love and anguish and, finally, desperation as she becomes an avenging angel in her attempt to rescue her husband from execution.

A Novel

The Black Angel

Cornell Woolrich, along with Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain, was one of the creators of the noir genre.

Black Alibi

The Collected Short Fiction of Cornell Woolrich, Volume 2

Stories to Be Whispered

Cornell Woolrich. His name conjures a maelstrom of nerve- shattering suspense spawned by the stark, cynical landscape of urban America in the 1930s and 1940s. This collection spotlights thirteen of his most unforgettable narratives, including REAR WINDOW, which watches Hal Jeffries confined with a broken leg to a tiny apartment that only allows him to survey the daily lives of his neighbors across the courtyard?until he discovers one of them is a cold-blooded murderer and that he?s the next victim. Other thrillers involve a woman trapped with a psychotic stranger obsessed with knifing his victims on the dance floor; a man who finds his bride buried alive; and a housewife seizing her chance to escape a sadistic husband, only to find her dream go terrifyingly wrong. With REAR WINDOW, as in the other stories in this volume, Woolrich proves that, like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and James M. Cain, he remains one of the all-time masters of the noir genre.

Cornell Woolrich

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