LITERARY NOIR: A SERIES OF SUSPENSE, VOL. 1

Volume One: Solve the Crime/Whodunit? Within this Volume, you'll step into some of the most imaginative, high-tension and dangerous worlds of Cornell Woolrich. At the center of each story is a protagonist desperate to solve a crime, or you, the reader, trying to gure out whodunit up until the last page.

Follow Woolrich's everyday characters turned into detectives, seasoned detectives on the hunt for psychotic killers, endangered Hollywood and burlesque starlets, vengeful family members stopping at nothing for justice, and spouses desperately seeking the sometimes horri c truth about their partners. Volume One includes some of Woolrich's most powerful, emotional and chilling noir literature with an underlying theme of his personal journey throughout the economic depression of the 1930's, and as a failed screenwriter in Hollywood at the end of the silent era.

STORIES INCLUDE: Murder, Obliquely, All at Once, No Alice, Silent as the Grave, A er Dinner Story, Death at the Burlesque, Red Liberty, Preview of Death.

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genres, publishing over two dozen novels and over two hundred short stories and novellas along with those that had been unpublished at the time of his death in 1968.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.