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...

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...

Although “The Drugstore Cowboy” (published in 1927 and unrelateld to the movie of the same name) has some crime elements, including a stolen car and a high-speed police chase, it is primarily a Jazz Age tale. Filmed, it would have made a terrific screwball comedy in the right director’s hands—imagine young actors Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in the starring roles as you read. If you are a fan of Woolrich's mysteries, this is a worthy addition to his oeuvre, showcases elements he would ...

Julie is a grief-stricken woman who announces she is leaving the city and buys a random train ticket. She takes a room under an assumed name and erases all trace of her identity. Over the next two years, she appears in the lives of various men and kills them. One night, she crashes an engagement party of a fellow named Bliss. Corey, another guest at the party, tries to romance her, but she deflects his interest, and lures Bliss onto the balcony; when they are alone, she pushes him off and ...

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 ...

Cornell Woolrich, writing under his pseudonym William Irish, presents Marihuana, a suspenseful and chilling tale that explores the dangerous consequences of a seemingly innocent act. In this gripping noir thriller, the protagonist, a young woman caught in a web of addiction and criminal intrigue, finds herself in over her head after a casual encounter with marijuana. What begins as a harmless indulgence quickly spirals into a nightmare of deception, violence, and lost control. As the story...

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

From the 1930s until his death in 1968, Cornell Woolrich riveted the reading public with his mystery, suspense, and horror stories.Classic films like Hitchcock's Rear Window and Trauffaut's The Bride Wore Black and novels like Night has a Thousand Eyes and The Black Angel earned Woolrich epithets like "the twentieth century's Edgar Allen Poe" and "the father of noir."

Cornell Woolrich’s Children of the Ritz is a haunting and atmospheric novel that captures the essence of noir fiction, exploring themes of love, deception, and the darkness that lurks behind society’s glamorous façade. Set in the world of New York's elite, the story follows a group of privileged young adults whose seemingly perfect lives are shattered by a murder that forces them to confront their hidden desires, secrets, and fears. The central character, a charming but troubled man named ...

In Woolrich's iconic tale, Detective Tom Shawn saves a lovely young woman from a suicide attempt one night and later hears her story. She is in despair because the death of her wealthy father has been predicted by a confidence man seemingly gifted with the power of clairvoyance, a man whose predictions have unerringly aided her father in his business many times before. Shawn and a squad of detectives investigate this dire prediction and try to avert the millionaire businessman from meeting...

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.

Two Short Stories by Cornell Woolrich.Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich (1903 – 1968) was an American novelist and short story writer who wrote using the name Cornell Woolrich, and sometimes the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley. His biographer, Francis Nevins Jr., rated Woolrich the fourth best crime writer of his day, behind Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler.