The Black Angel

by Cornell Woolrich

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781605983554
Publisher:	Pegasus Books
Publication date:	07/01/2012
Series:	Pegasus Crime Series
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	329,010
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

From the 1930s until his death in 1968,Cornell Woolrichriveted the reading public with his mystery, suspense, and horror stories. Classic films like Hitchcock'sRear Windowand Trauffaut'sThe Bride Wore Blackand novels likeNight has a Thousand EyesandThe Black Angelearned Woolrich epithets like "the twentieth century's Edgar Allen Poe" and "the father of noir."

What People are Saying About This

James Ellroy

You can palpably feel the agony in Woolrich and his work.

Editorial Reviews

You can palpably feel the agony in Woolrich and his work.

James Ellroy

Woolrich was a master of the form.

Tom Nolan - Wall Street Journal

Woolrich devised and used instruments of psychological torture—his stories.

Time

Along with Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich practically invented the genre of noir.

Newsday

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

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

Woolrich was a master of the form.— Tom Nolan

Wall Street Journal

Woolrich was a master of the form.
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