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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
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English
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Crime & mystery fiction

DEADLINE AT DAWN

Cornell Woolrich

Two Midwesterns living in New York cover up a theft before skipping town at dawn, but when they find a body at the scene, they must race against time to find the real killer or be suspected of the crime.

The fiction of Cornell Woolrich is rife with the kind of psychological tension audiences have always craved. He has been called the foremost suspense writer of the 20th century, the Edgar Allan Poe of his era. He was a prolific writer in the crime, horror, noir and mystery genres, publishing over two dozen novels and over two hundred short stories and novellas along with those that had been unpublished at the time of his death in 1968. One of the most famous film adaptations aside from Rear Window was directed by François Truffaut, whose French new wave interpretation of The Bride Wore Black, entitled La Mariee Etait en Noir, premiered in 1968, the year Woolrich died. Dozens of his short stories were adapted for popular network radio and television show episodes including Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Suspense and Molle Mystery Theatre.

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Book Published 2019-07-19 by Renaissance Literary & Talent

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Woolrich's life was as twisted and compelling as his work, and that's saying something.

Cornell Woolrich deserves to be discovered and dediscovered by each generation.

Packed with action and hurting with emotion.

Woolrich is the great master of the infinite terror of prosaic everyday detail.

He was the Poe of the twentieth century and the poet of its shadows. He was the Hitchcock of the written word.

French: Gallimard ; Korean: Elixir

One of the giants of mystery fiction ... one of my earliest writing heroes.

Cornell Woolrich is the master of suspense. When he sets out to leave you panting, you can bet he will succeed.

The writing of Cornell Woolrich goes through you like a shriek in the night.

It is the pace that counts, not the logic or the plausibility ... I happen to admire this kind of writing very much.

Woolrich had an exceptional gift for crafting claustrophobic situations and the shattered lives of the desperate.

Woolrich could pull the reader into a night of fatalistic doom.

Nothing beats a tale of fatalistic dread by the supreme master of suspense, Cornell Woolrich. His novels and hundreds of short stories define the essence of noir nihilism.

The most exciting experience in crime fiction this reviewer has had in some time.

Cornell Woolrich can distill more terror, more excitement, more downright nail-biting suspense out of even the most commonplace happenings than nearly all his competitors.

Along with Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich practically invented the genre of noir.

If it doesn't freeze your blood, then you are immune to literary chills.

Woolrich has, of course, the photographic eye. He also has a vitality of word and phrase; he has ingenuity and perception.