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Author : Cornell Woolrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Revenge
ISBN : UOM:39015037822445
Author : Cornell Woolrich
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307431684
On a mild midwestern night in the early 1940s, Johnny Marr leans against a drugstore wall. He’s waiting for Dorothy, his fiancée, and tonight is the last night they’ll be meeting here, for it’s May 31st, and June 1st marks their wedding day. But she’s late, and Johnny soon learns of a horrible accident—an accident involving a group of drunken men, a low-flying charter plane, and an empty liquor bottle. In one short moment Johnny loses all that matters to him and his life is shattered. He vows to take from these men exactly what they took from him. After years of planning, Johnny begins his quest for revenge, and on May 31st of each year—always on May 31st—wives, lovers, and daughters are suddenly no longer safe. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author : Cornell Woolrich
Publisher : Modern Library (Paperback)
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812971453
A republication of one of the most successful installments of the Black Series finds midwestern small-town boy Johnny Marr reeling from the untimely death of his girlfriend at the hands of a drunken mob and exacting a terrible revenge years later. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
Author : Carina Woolrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0805800298
Author : William Irish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Revenge
ISBN : OCLC:40384297
Author : Helen Weinzweig
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487000486
A lost feminist classic — and winner of the Toronto Book Award — reissued to coincide with the 35th anniversary of publication. In her yearning, elusive search for a lover, Shirley Kaszenbowski sheds her drab “basic black” existence together with torturous memories of guilt and loss as a Jewish immigrant in Toronto. Shirley Kaszenbowski, née Silverberg, is a middle-aged, middle-class woman in a Holt Renfrew tweed coat, a basic black dress, and a strand of real pearls. She may seem ordinary enough, pricing silk scarves at Eaton’s or idling in hotel coffee shops, but in fact she is searching for her lover. He is an elusive figure, a man connected with “The Agency,” a powerful technocrat who may or may not have suggested a rendezvous based on a secret code in the National Geographic. Her search takes her to the world of her past as a Jewish immigrant in the Spadina-Dundas area of Toronto. She finds the bakeries and rooming houses of her youth still haunted by survivors of postwar Europe and by her own memories of guilt and loss, while the consolations of art, opera, and pornography offer only echoes of her own illusions and desires. Her strange, wryly funny odyssey ends in a dramatic confrontation scene with her husband and “the other woman,” as she trades in her basic black for another chance. In Basic Black with Pearls, Weinzweig displays her gift for creating sympathetic characters in a slightly surreal, but always recognizable world.
Author : Cornell Woolrich
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781613161999
A police detective seeks the rationale between seemingly-unrelated murders, connected only by the appearance of a beautiful woman each time When the wealthy ladies’ man fell from his balcony in the midst of his engagement party, the police dismissed the death as the result of a freak accident. There was nothing to connect it with the poisoning of a lonely man in his squalid apartment, or with the married business-man killed after him, sealed into a closet and left to suffocate. No connection, that is, aside from the appearance of a beautiful woman in each case, just before the victims met their untimely ends. Nobody knows her identity, where she comes from or whither she goes. Nor do they know why anyone would be targeting this series of seemingly-unrelated persons. But one police detective is convinced that the answers to these questions can save the lives of men who might be next on the list, men who will continue to die at a rapid rate unless he can solve the puzzle and intervene. Cornell Woolrich’s first crime novel, The Bride Wore Black is the stylish, tense thriller that launched the career of “the supreme master of suspense” (New York Times). It was filmed by Francois Truffaut under the same title, and went on to inspire Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill movies.
Author : Jake Lamar
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429976373
Rendezvous Eighteenth marks the emergence of an exciting voice in crime fiction. Ricky Jenks gave up life in the U.S. years ago and is content, if not happy, with his life as a piano player in a small café in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris. He has many friends among the other African-Americans living in Paris and is happily, if casually, involved with a French Muslim woman. But then everything changes. His American life comes crashing down on him when his estranged cousin wants help finding his runaway wife, whom he thinks might have come to Paris, even though he's vague about why. That same night Ricky finds a prostitute dead in his apartment building in Paris's Eighteenth Arrondissment, one of the most multicultural sections of Paris. That these two events could be connected is something he never imagines. This intricate, absorbing thriller is ultimately much more than a suspense novel. Lamar's detailed and vibrant portrait of life in Paris is as much the story of a black man's alienation and redemption-indeed, the story of an entire community searching for a home-as it is a taut thriller about revenge, obsession, and murder
Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040448800
Author : Saul Black
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250199928
Critically acclaimed author Saul Black returns with a heart-racing thriller in which a brutal murder forces one woman to reckon with her own past—and her future. On a hot summer night, a watchful neighbor locks eyes with an intruder and unwittingly alerts the police to a vicious crime scene next door: a lavish master bedroom where a man lies dead. Next to him, his wife is bleeding out onto the hardwood floor, clinging to life. The victim, Adam Grant, was a well-known San Francisco prosecutor—a man whose connection to Homicide detective Valerie Hart brings her face-to-face with a life she’s long since left behind. Adam’s career made him an easy target, and forensic evidence points towards an ex-con he put behind bars years ago. But while Adam’s wife and daughter grapple with their tragic loss, Valerie uncovers devastating clues that point in a more ominous direction. Lurking in the shadows of the Grants’ pristine life is a mysterious blonde who holds the key to a very different—and much darker—story. As Valerie struggles to forge a new path for herself, the investigation forces her to confront the question: can we ever really leave our pasts behind? Sophisticated and stunning, Anything for You is an unforgettable thriller that will grip readers long after turning the last page.
Author : Fred Hoyle
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141967493
A 1959 classic 'hard' science-fiction novel by renowned Cambridge astronomer and cosmologist Fred Hoyle. Tracks the progress of a giant black cloud that comes towards Earth and sits in front of the sun, causing widespread panic and death. A select group of scientists and astronomers - including the dignified Astronomer Royal, the pipe smoking Dr Marlowe and the maverick, eccentric Professor Kingsly - engage in a mad race to understand and communicate with the cloud, battling against trigger happy politicians. In the pacy, engaging style of John Wyndham and John Christopher, with plenty of hard science thrown in to add to the chillingly credible premise (he manages to foretell Artificial Intelligence, Optical Character Recognition and Text-to-Speech converters), Hoyle carries you breathlessly through to its thrilling end.
Author : Kim Baldwin
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781602822986
Danger, destiny, and romance on the river. A wilderness kayak adventure brings together two very different women—Chaz Herrick, a laid-back outdoorswoman, and Megan Maxwell, a workaholic news executive. As they battle the challenges of nature for survival, they discover that true love may be nothing at all like they imagined.
Author : Cornell Woolrich
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789176452288
»Du kan bokstavligen känna ångesten i Woolrich verk.« | James Ellroy »Cornell Woolrichs romaner definierar själva kärnan av nihilistisk noir.« | The New York Times Book Review »Cornell Woolrich förtjänar att upptäckas, och återupptäckas, av varje generation.« | Ray Bradbury Det är den 31 maj, en mild försommarkväll i den amerikanska Mellanvästern, tidigt 1940-tal. Johnny Marr står lutad mot väggen till den drugstore där han stämt träff med Dorothy, sin trolovade och älskade sedan barnsben. Dorothy är sen och Johnny får snart veta varför. Hon är död - dödad av en meningslös spritflaska, kastad från ett lågt passerande flygplan fullt av berusade män: ett jaktlag på väg hem. Johnnys liv kommer hädanefter att handla om hämnd - ut i varenda cell av hans varelse. Den 31 maj varje år blir högtidsdagen då var och en i jaktsällskapet får besök. Av en som fått sitt liv krossat och som vill gengälda handlingen med så precisa medel som möjligt. Cornell Woolrich har kommit att betraktas som lika betydelsefull för den amerikanska hårdkokta traditionen som de betydligt mer kända namnen Raymond Chandler och Dashiell Hammett. Rendezvous i svart [Rendezvous in Black, 1948] hör till de stora romanklassikerna i noir-genren. Här i svensk översättning av Lars Ekegren. CORNELL WOOLRICH [1903-1968], född i New York, var en av de stora amerikanska thrillerförfattarna. Efter att hans första roman publicerades 1926 flyttade han till Hollywood för att bli manusförfattare. Där utforskade han sin homosexualitet - och gifte sig. Både äktenskapet och manuskarriären blev dock kortvariga. Woolrich återvände till New York, där han bodde med sin mamma i en rad sjaskiga hotellrum, trots att han snart hade gott om pengar. Fram till sin död producerade han en enorm mängd spännings- och skräckhistorier, under en rad pseudonymer. De klassiska filmatiseringarna av Alfred Hitchcock och François Truffaut, och inte minst hans roman Natten har tusen ögon [1945], har fått Woolrich att beskrivas som »1900-talets Edgar Allen Poe« och »noir-genrens fader«. »Cornell Woolrich var en noir-genrens mästare.« | Wall Street Journal »Inget slår en berättelse om ödesmättad fasa av den suveräne mästaren av spänning, Cornell Woolrich.« | The New York Times Book Review
Author : Christine Photinos
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476624761
In recent years, and with increasing frequency, Cornell Woolrich has been categorized as a member of the hard-boiled school of American crime fiction and one of its most important early practitioners. Objections to this categorization notwithstanding, Woolrich’s stories provide critical counterpoints to the work of his better-known contemporaries and to some of the taken-for-granted conventions of early hard-boiled crime fiction. This article originally appeared in Clues: A Journal of Detection, Volume 28, Issue 2.
Author : Kobo Abe
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141993218
'A gorgeously entertaining, provocative book' Chicago Tribune It is 4am when the ambulance comes to take the man's wife away - although no-one has called it, and there is nothing wrong with her. As he sets out to find her, he finds himself in the corridors of a vast underground hospital, where he encounters sinister medics, freakish sexual experiments and the unmistakable feeling of being watched. Even when he is suddenly appointed as the hospital's chief of security, reporting to a man who thinks he is a horse, he will not give up his search. Secret Rendezvous is a nightmarish satire of bureaucracy, medicine and modern life. 'Reads as if it were the collaborative effort of Hieronymus Bosch, Franz Kafka and Mel Brooks' Chicago Sun Times