Cornell Woolrich. Penzler, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61347-145-6
At the start of this somber crime novel from Woolrich (1903–1968), originally published in 1940, a woman named Julie buys a one-way ticket to Chicago at New York’s Grand Central Station, but she gets off at the first stop, still in Manhattan. After...
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Cornell Woolrich, Author, Lawrence Block, Editor Mysterious Press $16.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-200-6
The events leading to the publication of this book have their own elements of mystery. First, a corpus is discovered: the unpublished works of Cornell Woolrich, a popular writer of the 1940s, remembered for such classics as The Bride Wore Black and...
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Cornell Woolrich, Author, Francis M. Nevins, Editor Carroll & Graf Publishers $26 (409p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1530-5
Woolrich biographer and novelist Nevins does noir lovers a genuine service with his second anthology of stories by one of the masters of psychological suspense and terror. The quality of the fiction gathered here is higher than that of his previous...
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Cornell Woolrich, Author, Francis M. Nevins, Editor Carroll & Graf Publishers $26 (394p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1291-5
Cornell Woolrich's considerable skill as a noir writer isn't displayed to best advantage in Night and Fear, a collection of 14 previously uncollected short stories, edited and with an introduction by Francis M. Nevins. There are intriguing ...
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Cornell Woolrich. Penzler, $25.95 (360p) ISBN 978-1-61316-152-4
In this unrelentingly grim noir from Woolrich (1903–1968), first published in 1947 and set in 1880 New Orleans, Louis Durand, the owner of a prosperous coffee-import business, is looking forward to meeting the woman he’s romanced via correspondence,
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