THE BLACK ANGEL

The avenging angel of The Black Angel must race against time to prove that her convicted husband did not murder his mistress. This plotline was expanded from two of Woolrich's earlier short stories, "Murder in Wax" and "Face Work."

The Black Series contains six individual books: Black Alibi, The Black Angel, The Bride Wore Black, The Black Curtain,The Black Path of Fear and Rendezvous in Black. The first three books contain distinct female protagonists that brave the dark worlds of Black Alibi, The Black Angel and The Bride Wore Black.

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publishing over two dozen novels and over two hundred short stories and novellas along with those that had been unpublished at the time of his death in 1968.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