Rear Window

by Cornell Woolrich

• ISBN13: 9780743423717
• ISBN10: 0743423712
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-08-28
• Publisher: I Books

Summary

Cornell Woolrich. His name conjures a maelstrom of nerve- shattering suspense spawned by the stark, cynical landscape of urban America in the 1930s and 1940s. This collection spotlights thirteen of his most unforgettable narratives, including REAR WINDOW, which watches Hal Jeffriesconfined with a broken leg to a tiny apartment that only allows him to survey the daily lives of his neighbors across thecourtyard?until he discovers one of them is a cold-bloodedmurderer and that he¹s the next victim. Other thrillers involve a woman trapped with a psychotic stranger obsessed with knifing his victims on the dance floor; a man who finds his bride buried alive; and a housewifeseizing her chance to escape a sadistic husband, only to find her dream go terrifyingly wrong. With REAR WINDOW, as in the other stories in this volume, Woolrich proves that, like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and James M. Cain, he remains one of the all-time masters of the noir genre.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Rear Window	1	(27)
I Won't Take a Minute	28	(22)
Speak To Me of Death	50	(26)
The Dancing Detective	76	(20)
The Light in the Window	96	(19)
The Corpse Next Door	115	(16)
You'll Never See Me Again	131	(52)
The Screaming Laugh	183	(18)
Dead On Her Feet	201	(16)
Waltz	217	(5)
The Book that Squealed	222	(33)
Death Escapes the Eye	255	(33)
For the Rest of Her Life	288	(20)
List of Sources	308