Cornell Woolrich
Cornell Woolrich (1903-1968) reinvented suspense fiction for the twentieth century. For four decades, hundreds of his stories appeared in popular American pulp magazines while motion picture directors as varied as Hitchcock and Truffaut memorably translated his work into such classic films as Rear Window and The Bride Wore Black.
All Books By Cornell Woolrich
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
- By: Cornell Woolrich
- Narrator: Angela Brazil
- Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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3.73(768 ratings)
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 his ordained end at the stroke of midnight.
One of Cornell Woolrich’s most influential novels, this classic noir tale of a man struggling with his ability to see the future is arguably the author’s best in its depiction of a doomed vision of predestination.
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- By: Cornell Woolrich
- Narrator: Hillary Huber
- Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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3.71(343 ratings)
In this classic crime novel and hypnotic thriller, a panic-stricken young wife races against time to prove that her convicted husband did not murder his mistress. Writing in first person from the wife’s viewpoint, Woolrich evokes her love and anguish and, finally, desperation as she becomes an avenging angel in her attempt to rescue her husband from execution.
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