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After a slight accident on a tawdry street, Frank Townsend goes home—only to discover he hasn't been there in years. Suffering from amnesia, accused of murder, and the object of deadly pursuit, he must overcome the crime that time has thrust upon him...
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Grave, unpretentious, earnest and spare.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Cornell Woolrich
- First published
- 1941
- Pages
- 246
- Publisher
- Azbuka, Penzler Publishers, Independently Published
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9785267003421
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Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich was an American novelist and short story writer who sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley.
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