This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1950s, presents a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream literary histories. Evolving out of the terse and violent hardboiled style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the decades into a varied and innovative body of writing. Tapping deep roots in the American literary imagination, the novels in this volume explore themes of crime, guilt, deception, obsessive passion, murder, and the disintegrating psyche. With visionary and often subversive force they create a dark and violent mythology...

Cornell Woolrich, best known as the author of Rear Window, is unsurpassed in his ability to create and sustain sheer suspense. In his tales of terror, ordinary people find themselves in the most extraordinary circumstances and, as readers, we share their spine-tingling tension every step of the way. Here, collected for the first time, are four of his most nail-biting novellas."

Blues of a Lifetime is essential reading for people interested in suspense novelist Cornell Woolrich, author of Rear Window. Woolrich's autobiography includes accounts of his working methods, his family and home, memories of childhood, college experience, and his philosophy of life.

In this classic crime novel, a panic-stricken young wife races against time to prove that her convicted husband did not murder his mistress. Writing in first person from the wife s viewpoint, Woolrich evokes her love and anguish and, finally, desperation as she becomes an avenging angel in her attempt to rescue her husband from execution."

CORNELL WOOLRICH quien utilizaba preferentemente el seudonimo de "WILLIAM IRISH" esta justamente considerado como uno de los maestros de la novela policiaca. Ninguno como el logra tan gran realismo ni mantiene el suspense, desde la primera a la ultima pagina de todas sus obras. En este volumen: Una noche en Hollywood Una noche en Montreal Una noche en Zacamoras Taxi-girl El cazador y su presa Panico en el metro Combate macabro Vals en la oscuridad"

Vier Männer sterben. Vier Männer, die nichts miteinander verbindet, außer, dass sie auf eigenartige Weise den Tod fanden - und zuvor eine junge, hübsche Frau ken-nengelernt haben...