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De Maupassant once wrote: “There is nothing more beautiful and honorable than killing.”

The Bride Wore Black

Four men are murdered. Each time a woman they have never known comes into their lives. She appears briefly — she strikes — and disappears. There is never a trace of her left — not a fingerprint, not a clue.

Four men are murdered. Four men whose lives do not touch, for whose deaths there is no conceivable reason. The police say, “Homicidal Maniac.” And yet — twice the woman risks her life to save another’s.

Four men are murdered. And slowly, very slowly, the of the woman grows clearer to the police.

She is beautiful, for only a beautiful woman would have worn the filmy black veil found clutched in the hand of the first man who dies.

She is clever, for only a clever woman could have escaped from the hotel bedroom of her second victim.

She is ruthless, for only a ruthless woman could have used a child’s toy to kill that child’s father.

She is strong, for only a strong woman could have used such a weapon for her fourth murder.

Four men are murdered.

Then comes the fifth. And with it a denouement as breathtakingly exciting as a parachute jump and as extraordinary as the woman herself.

The Bride Wore Black

The Gringo got the job — to kill the man he’d been hired to protect!

Story of a boy who found a way.

A crumpled five-dollar bill, a ticket to San Francisco, a legal document terminating a marriage lost long ago in angry words— These were all she had. But between today and tomorrow a strange thing happened. She had a chance to build a whole new life, a life based on a lie.

The blind man was unwittingly enmeshed in the slimy schemes of a ruthless dope ring. How could he clear his name, with no aid except that of the faithful canine companion who was his “seeing eye,” when he was up against a sinister set-up that had defied the whole narcotic squad?

Cornell Woolrich was a haunted man who lived a life of reclusive misery, but he was also a uniquely gifted writer who explored the classic noir themes of loneliness, despair and futility. His stories are masterpieces of psychological suspense and mystery, and they have inspired classic movies like Hitchcock’s Rear Window and Truffaut’s The Bride wore Black. This collection brings together twelve of his finest, most powerful and disturbing tales.

In depths of despair, the beautiful, lonely Madeline contemplates suicide. She gently strokes an ugly revolver, the sole legacy of an alcoholic father. Holding the barrel to her temple, she pulls the trigger. There is only the click of the hammer on an empty chamber.

The failure of the weapon brings on a rush of joy, and renewed hope for her future. She throws down the gun — and it explodes with deadly fury. The bullet strikes an innocent young woman passing in the street outside, who in the next moment dies in Madeline’s arms.

So begins , the quintessential Cornell Woolrich novel, never before published. Although Woolrich worked on it for years, this tale of hatred and passion, of love and suspense, remained unfinished at the time of his death. This undiscovered masterpiece has been completed by Lawrence Block — one of today’s most distinguished mystery writers — to create a work which will stand beside Woolrich’s and