Rear Window and Other Murderous Tales

REAR WINDOW AND OTHER MURDEROUS TALES is a brand new, never before seen collection featuring nine of famed crime and suspense writer Cornell Woolrich’s most riveting short stories. At its center is “Rear Window,” originally titled “It Had to be Murder,” the story Alfred Hitchcock adapted into his classic 1954 suspense film starring James Stewart. Each tale within this collection revolves around a murder, whether from the point of view of the murderer himself, the investigating detective, a witness, the falsely accused, or an innocent spouse. Woolrich masterfully reveals the psychological toll the gruesome act of murder takes on all those involved. His writing brims with suspense, fear, paranoia, anxiety, mystery, and the economic desperation of the Great Depression, in which many of his stories are set. A reader will find no finer suspense fiction than in these nine classic Window-The Corpse Next Door-Morning After Murder-Two Murders, One Crime-Dusk to Dawn-Silent as the Grave-Murder at the Automat-Crazy House-New York BluesCornell George Hopley-Woolrich (1903–1968) is one of America's best crime and suspense writers, and sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish or George Hopley. He invented and mastered the genre of "pulp-fiction" and wrote hundreds of short stories, novellas and full-length novels, including The Bride Wore Black. Many of his works were adapted into films, television shows and radio programs.