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The Black Angel

Woolrich devised and used instruments of psychological torture-his stories.-TIME Nothing beats a tale of fatalistic dread by the supreme master of suspense, Cornell Woolrich.-The New York Times A novel as hypnotic as it is suspenseful, its atmosphere haunting, its shadows long, this intimate thriller by past master of noir fiction Cornell Woolrich delivers its unfailing angel from her waking nightmare into a chillingly impossible dream. From the 1930s until his death in 1968, Cornell Woolrich riveted the reading public with his pulp noir. Classic films like Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window earned Woolrich the epithet the twentieth century's Edgar Allan Poe.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 320 pages

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