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In Woolrich's iconic tale, Detective Tom Shawn saves a lovely young woman from a suicide attempt one night, and later hears her story. She is in despair because the death of her wealthy father has been predicted by a confident man seemingly gifted with the power of clairvoyance; a man whose predictions have unerringly aided her father in his business many times before. Shawn and a squad of detectives investigate this dire prediction and try to avert the millionaire businessman from meeting his ordained end at the stroke of midnight. One of Cornell Woolrich's most influential novels, this classic noir tale of a man struggling with his ability to see the future is arguably the author's best in its depiction of a doomed vision of predestination.

Cornell Woolrich, along with Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain, was one of the creators of the noir genre.

"The Lost Stories of Cornell Woolrich" This collection of 35 stories and essays spans the years 1926 through 1939, and includes all but two of Cornell Woolrich¿s ¿romance¿ works of less than novel length.This is truly the ¿lost¿ Woolrich canon; only one of these stories has ever been reprinted, and that just a year after its initial publication. Woolrich began his writing career as an admirer and imitator of the ¿Jazz Age¿ tales of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Some of his earliest short-form efforts in this vein are paper-thin, but from the very beginning the poetry of his prose and his ability to turn a memorable phrase are apparent, and there are occasional sparks throughout that demonstrate the talent, style and motifs that would eventually make him the master of suspense.

This hypnotic thriller by the father of noir exposes its heroine to a waking nightmare. A panic-stricken young wife races against time to prove that her convicted husband did not murder his mistress. Writing in first person from her viewpoint, Woolrich makes us feel her love and anguish and desperation, as she becomes an avenging angel to rescue her husband from execution.

Cornell Woolrich, along with Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain, was one of the creators of the noir genre.

Cornell Woolrich, along with Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain, was one of the creators of the noir genre.

The classic ticking clock novel with a new introduction and fine new artwork.

A man. A woman. A kiss in the dark. That is how it begins. But before his nightmare ends, Prescott Marshall will learn that kisses and darkness can both hide evil intent--and that the worst darkness of all may be lurking inside him in this breathtaking noir crime novel. Leisure Books.

AMERICA'S MASTER OF SUSPENSE...FIRST IN THE DEFINITIVE SERIES OF THIS AMERICAN GENIUS No one knew who she was, where she came from, or why she had entered their lives. All they really knew about her was that she possessed a terrifying beauty-and that each time she appeared, a man died horribly. . . .

TWO OF THE GREATEST AUTHORS OF NOIR FICTION IN AN UNFORGETTABLE COLLABORATION An innocent woman lies dead in the street, felled by a stray bullet. Now it’s up to the woman who killed her to investigate the dead woman’s life and pick up its cut-short threads, carrying out a mission of vengeance on her behalf against the man she loved and lost – and the nightclub-singing femme fatale responsible for splitting them apart. Begun in the last years of his life by noir master Cornell Woolrich, the haunted genius responsible for such classics as Rear Window, The Bride Wore Black, Night Has a Thousand Eyes, and Phantom Lady, and completed decades later by acclaimed novelist and MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block (A Walk Among the Tombstones, Eight Million Ways to Die), INTO THE NIGHT – available here for the first time in more than 35 years – is a collaboration that extends beyond the grave, echoing the book’s own story of the living taking on and completing the unfinished work of the dead.