The Black Angel
By Cornell Woolrich.
Filmed as Black Angel
(1946), directed by Roy William Neill.
Published by Pegasus
Crime.
First published 1943.
ISBN-10: 1605983551
ISBN-13: 9781605983554
Description:
Nothing beats a tale of
fatalistic dread by the supreme master of suspense, Cornell Woolrich, whose
novels and short stories define the essence of noir nihilism. – Marilyn Stasio,
New York Times Book Review.
Along with Raymond
Chandler, Cornell Woolrich practically invented the genre of noir. – Newsday.
Woolrich devised and
used instruments of psychological torture―his stories. – Time.
Woolrich was a master of
the form. – Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal.
You can palpably feel
the agony in Woolrich and his work. – James Ellroy.
A classic is back in
print! This hypnotic thriller, by one of the originators of the noir form,
exposes its heroine to a waking nightmare.
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.
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