Description: In this thrilling mystery from "the Hitchcock of the written word," two lovers rush to solve a murder before the end of a New York night (Believer)
Brief description: Born George Hopley-Woolrich, Cornell Woolrich (1903-1968) is the pen name most often employed by one of America's best crime and noir writers, whose other pseudonyms included George Hopley and William Irish, the moniker under which Waltz into Darkness was first published. His novels were among the first to employ the atmosphere, outlook, and impending sense of doom that came to be characterized as noir, and inspired some of the most famous films of the period, including Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, Francois Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black, The Phantom Lady, and celebrated B-movies such as The Leopard Man and Black Angel.
Review Quotes: "The writing of Cornell Woolrich goes through you like a shriek in the night."--Dorothy Salisbury Davis, MWA Grandmaster