Because he was prolific, he found it necessary to publish under multiple pseudonyms, including ' William Irish' and ' George Hopley' Woolrich lived a life as dark and emotionally tortured as any of his unfortunate characters and died, alone, in a seedy Manhattan hotel room following the amputation of a gangrenous leg.

The bulk of his best-known work, however, was written in the field of crime fiction, often appearing serialized in pulp magazines or as paperback novels. The author of numerous classic novels and short stories (many of which were turned into classic films) such as Rear Window, The Bride Wore Black, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Waltz Into Darkness, and I Married a Dead Man, Woolrich began his career in the 1920s writing mainstream novels that won him comparisons to F. Also included are such haunting, heart-stopping tales as those involving a man who finds his wife buried alive a girl trapped with a deranged murderer who likes to knife his victims while dancing and a woman seizing her chance to escape a sadistic husband, only to find her dream go terrifyingly wrong.Ĭornell Woolrich is widely regarded as the twentieth century’s finest writer of pure suspense fiction. Here, in this special collection, are his classic thrilers, including 'Rear Window', the story of Hal Jeffries who, trapped in his apartment because of a broken leg, takes to watching his neighbours through his rear window, and becomes certain that one of those neighbours is a murderer. His name represents steamy, suspenseful fiction, chilling encounters on the dark and sultry landscape of urban America in the 1930s and 1940s. The story that inspired the Alfred Hitchcock film masterpiece! Cornell Woolrich.

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