A detective investigates a psychic’s deadly predictions in the iconic novel from “the supreme master of suspense” that inspired the classic film (The New York Times Book Review). 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.

TWO OF THE GREATEST AUTHORS OF NOIR FICTION IN AN UNFORGETTABLE COLLABORATION An innocent woman lies dead in the street, felled by a stray bullet. Now it’s up to the woman who killed her to investigate the dead woman’s life and pick up its cut-short threads, carrying out a mission of vengeance on her behalf against the man she loved and lost – and the nightclub-singing femme fatale responsible for splitting them apart. Begun in the last years of his life by noir master Cornell Woolrich, the haunted genius responsible for such classics as Rear Window, The Bride Wore Black, Night Has a Thousand Eyes, and Phantom Lady, and completed decades later by acclaimed novelist and MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block (A Walk Among the Tombstones, Eight Million Ways to Die), INTO THE NIGHT – available here for the first time in more than 35 years – is a collaboration that extends beyond the grave, echoing the book’s own story of the living taking on and completing the unfinished work of the dead.

The basis for the classic 1940s movie from “the supreme master of suspense . . . whose novels and short stories define the essence of noir nihilism” (The New York Times Book Review). In this classic crime novel, 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.

A republication of one of the most successful installments of the Black Series finds midwestern small-town boy Johnny Marr reeling from the untimely death of his girlfriend at the hands of a drunken mob and exacting a terrible revenge years later. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

"Cornell Woolrich's novels define the essence of noir nihilism."-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review One of Woolrich's most famous novels, this classic noir tale of a con man struggling with his ability to see the future is arguably the author's best in its depiction of his vision of doomed predestination. From the 1930s until his death in 1968, Cornell Woolrich riveted the reading public with his unparalleled suspense stories. Classic films like Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window and novels such as Rendezvous in Black earned Woolrich epithets like "the twentieth century's Edgar Allan Poe" and "the father of noir."

Rear window "tells the tale of Hal Jeffries, trapped in his apartment because of a broken leg, who watches his neighbors through his rear window-- until he is certain he's discovered a murder. In this story, as in the other four-- all featured as 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' episodes-- Woolrich proves he is the all-time master of the noir genre".--Back cover.

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 Eyes’ and many more. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Woolrich’s complete novels, with numerous illustrations, rare texts and informative introductions. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Woolrich’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All 24 novels, with individual contents tables * Many rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * 138 short stories * Rare story collections available in no other collection * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the stories you want to read * Includes Woolrich’s uncollected stories * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please note: the posthumous novel ‘Into the Night’ was completed by Lawrence Block and so cannot appear in this edition, due to copyright restrictions. CONTENTS: The Novels Cover Charge (1926) Children of the Ritz (1927) Times Square (1929) A Young Man’s Heart (1930) The Time of Her Life (1931) Manhattan Love Song (1932) The Bride Wore Black (1940) The Black Curtain (1941) Black Alibi (1942) Phantom Lady (1942) The Black Angel (1943) The Black Path of Fear (1944) All at Once, No Alice (1944) Deadline at Dawn (1944) Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1945) Waltz into Darkness (1947) Rendezvous in Black (1948) I Married a Dead Man (1948) Savage Bride (1950) Fright (1950) Strangler’s Serenade (1951) Hotel Room (1958) Death is My Dancing Partner (1959) The Doom Stone (1960) The Short Story Collections After-Dinner Story (1944) Bluebeard’s Seventh Wife (1952) Nightmare (1956) Nightwebs (1971) Angels of Darkness (1978) Miscellaneous Stories The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order