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Nightwebs (Crime Masterworks)

Nightwebs (Crime Masterworks)

by Cornell Woolrich (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

    $10.50
Synopsis

Cornell Woolrich was a haunted man who lived a life of reclusive misery, but he was also a uniquely gifted writer who explored the classic noir themes of loneliness, despair and futility. His stories are masterpieces of psychological suspense and mystery, and they have inspired classic movies like Hitchcock's Rear Window and Truffaut's The Bride wore Black. This collection brings together twelve of his finest, most powerful and disturbing tales.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 400
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 15 Aug 2002
ISBN 10: 0752851705
ISBN 13: 9780752851709
Book Overview: Woolrich can distil more terror, more excitement, more downright nail-biting suspense out of even the most commonplace happenings than nearly all his competitors' Ellery Queen 'The Poe of the twentieth century and the poet of its shadows' Francis M. Nevins Jr 'The writing of Cornell Woolrich goes through you like a shriek in the night. Nightwebs is both a tribute and a superb collection' Dorothy Salisbury Davis 'He has, of course, a photogrphic eye. He also has a vitality of word and phrase; he has ingenuity and perception, and what seems to have been long forgotten, humour' Dorothy Hughes Cornell Woolrich is one of the most important and influential writers of noir fiction

Author Bio
Cornell Woolrich (1903-68) was born in New York but spent much of his childhood being shunted between his father, a civil engineer in Latin America, and his mother who was socially prominent in New York. In the early 1929s he went to Columbia College but left before graduating to write. He published six novels before his first crime story appeared in 1934. His first mystery novel, The Bride Wore Black, appeared in 1940 and very quickly established itself as a classic of the genre. When he died he left an estate of close to a million dollars to Columbia University for scholarships in creative writing.