- Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, crime, Fiction, thrillers, suspense
A panic-stricken young wife races against time to prove that her convicted husband did not murder his mistress.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and spare.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Cornell Woolrich
- First published
- 1943
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran and Company, Pegasus Crime, Diogenes
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781639360871
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About Cornell Woolrich · 1903–1968
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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