The Cornell Woolrich Collection. Illustrated brings together some of the master storyteller's most unforgettable works, including A Young Man’s Heart, Manhattan Love Song, Children of the Ritz, and more. This illustrated anthology showcases Woolrich’s unparalleled ability to craft gripping, atmospheric tales that delve deep into the human psyche, exploring themes of love, obsession, and fate within the shadows of urban life. In A Young Man’s Heart, Woolrich explores the fragile nature of y...

The Bride Wore Black (1940) is one of Cornell Woolrich's defining exercises in noir suspense: a fatalistic revenge narrative in which a widowed bride methodically pursues the men she believes destroyed her wedding-day happiness. Structured as a series of elegant, tightening set pieces, the novel turns murder into ritual, replacing detective explanation with dread, misdirection, and psychological pressure. Its clipped prose, urban shadows, and sense of doom place it at the center of America...

When a long-distance romance leads to betrayal, an obsessed man descends into madness in a chilling classic from "the supreme master of suspense" ( New York Times).When New Orleans coffee merchant Louis Durand first meets his bride-to-be after a months-long courtship by mail, he's shocked that she doesn't match the photographs sent with her correspondence. But Durand has told his own fibs, concealing from her the details of his wealth—so he mostly feels fo...

**"REAL NOIR... A GROTESQUELY MEMORABLE RIDE." - WALL STREET JOURNALTWO OF THE GREATEST AUTHORS OF NOIR FICTION IN AN UNFORGETTABLE COLLABORATION**An innocent woman lies dead in the street, felled by a stray bullet. Now it’s up to the woman who killed her to investigate the dead woman’s life and pick up its cut-short threads, carrying out a mission of vengeance on her behalf against the man she loved and lost – and the nightclub-singing femme fatale responsible for splittin...

This hypnotic thriller by the father of noir exposes its heroine to a waking nightmare.A panic-stricken young wife races against time to prove that her convicted husband did not murder his mistress. Writing in first person from her viewpoint, Woolrich makes us feel her love and anguish and desperation, as she becomes an avenging angel to rescue her husband from execution.

NOTHING'S WHAT IT SEEMS IN THIS SLYLY SINISTER COLLECTION OF DAMES DONE WRONG...AND DOING THE SAME!Shocking surprises, chilling comeuppances, and mercies that are anything but tender are just part of what to expect from these memorable stories of women's wills...and wiles. Choosing them with an eye to the dangers ever lurking in our everyday lives, acclaimed editor Michele Slung very clearly wants to play with her readers' comfort levels-and succeeds. Amon...

Regarded by some as the twentieth century’s finest writer of pure suspense fiction, Cornell Woolrich began his career in the 1920s, writing mainstream novels and winning comparisons with F. Scott Fitzgerald. His best-known work, however, was written in the field of crime fiction, often appearing in pulp magazines and paperback novels. He produced numerous noir classics, many of which were turned into films, including ‘Rear Window’, ‘The Bride Wore Black’, ‘The Night Has a Thousand ...

To Death! Three stories of suspense and murder, fall guys and frames, and good women and bad.The Fatal Footlights (1950)Match wits with Police-Dick Benson as he tries to trap the brazen murderer who killed golden Gilda before his eyes—on a burlesque runway.Chapter One – Curtains for the CutieChapter Two – Vanishing BottleChapter Three – Brazen KillerChapter Four – An Eye for an EyeChapter Five – The L...

Pregnant, abandoned by her lover, and desperate, Helen boards a train heading west. She meets Patrice, a happy young expectant mother who’s traveling with her husband, Hugh, to meet his family for the first time. Patrice lets Helen try on her wedding-band—just before the train crashes, killing Patrice and Hugh. Thinking Helen is their widowed daughter-in-law, Hugh’s family welcomes her into their rich and loving home. For the first time, Helen’s life is good—until her ex-lover comes to tow...

Rendezvous in Black has a lot in common with my favorite Woolrich book, The Bride Wore Black. Johnny systematically hunts down each man, figures out On the eve of his wedding, Johnny Marr's fiancee is killed in a freak accident by a liquor bottle hurled out of the window of a small plane.

Marihuana is a fast-paced, action-packed story about some friends who decide to play a practical joke on King Turner. Turner is a recently divorced young man who has no experience with mind-altering drugs ... Cornell Woolrich is widely regarded as the twentieth century's finest writer of pure suspense fiction

The Black Curtain is your personal ticket to Hell, stamped by Cornell Woolrich. Frank Townsend suffers a minor injury on a tawdry city street. He goes home and finds his wife gone, and his life turned upside-down. His apartment looks unfamiliar to him, he recognizes nothing and no one. Worse still, he’s accused of murder and is being followed by mysterious strangers for no apparent reason. Frank is plunging into a black pool of amnesia