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What if you woke up to discover everyone thought you were somebody else?Pregnant and abandoned, all Helen Georgesson has is five dollars and a one-way ticket to San Francisco. Then she is involved in a train crash, and regains consciousness only to discover that she has given birth ¿ and, in a bizarre twist of fate, has been mistaken for somebody else. Helen decides to claim this opportunity to make a new life for herself and her son. But even...

An innocent woman lies dead in the street, felled by a stray bullet.Now it's up to the woman who killed her to investigate the deadwoman's life and pick up its cut-short threads, carrying out amission of vengeance on her behalf against the man she loved andlost - and the nightclub-singing femme fatale responsible forsplitting them apart.Begun in the last years of his life by noir master Cornell Woolrich, the haunted genius responsible for such...

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When Quinn first meets Bricky, she's working as a partner-for-hire at a dancehall and he's struggling to shake the anxiety of his guilty conscience. Earlier that day, the young man took advantage of a found key and used it to rob a stranger's home. Now, with the purloined money in his pocket, Quinn is unable to escape the memory of his wrongdoing-and not even a night spent dancing is enough to silence his nagging thoughts.  When the dancehall ...

When Quinn first meets Bricky, she's working as a partner-for-hire at a dancehall and he's struggling to shake the anxiety of his guilty conscience. Earlier that day, the young man took advantage of a found key and used it to rob a stranger's home. Now, with the purloined money in his pocket, Quinn is unable to escape the memory of his wrongdoing-and not even a night spent dancing is enough to silence his nagging thoughts.  When the dancehall ...

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 vic...

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 vic...

When New Orleans coffee merchant Louis Durand first meets his bride-to-be after a months-long courtship by mail, he's shocked that she doesn't match the photographs sent with her correspondence. But Durand has told his own fibs, concealing from her the details of his wealth, and so he mostly feels fortunate to find her so much more beautiful than expected. Soon after they marry, however, he becomes increasingly convinced that the woman in his ...

When New Orleans coffee merchant Louis Durand first meets his bride-to-be after a months-long courtship by mail, he's shocked that she doesn't match the photographs sent with her correspondence. But Durand has told his own fibs, concealing from her the details of his wealth, and so he mostly feels fortunate to find her so much more beautiful than expected. Soon after they marry, however, he becomes increasingly convinced that the woman in his ...

Wie kein anderer hat Alfred Hitchcock, der , Master of Suspense', für legendäre, unvergessliche Filmszenen gesorgt. Die Dusche in "Psycho", das Weizenfeld in "Der unsichtbare Dritte", der Glockenturm in "Vertigo". Was vielen nicht bewusst ist: rund 40 seiner Filme basieren auf literarischen Vorlagen. Für die neue Hörbuchreihe "Verfilmt von Alfred Hitchcock" nimmt Jens Wawrczeck sich jener Romane und Erzählungen an, die einst Hitchcock zu seine...

Encuadenación: Rústica Colección: Serie negraEs 31 de mayo, el día antes de que Johnny se case con su prometida, Dorothy, éste la espera, apoyado en la pared de la tienda en la que siempre se encontraban. Sin embargo, Dorothy llega tarde. Johnny descubre que su prometida se ha visto envuelta en un accidente en el que están involucrados un grupo de borrachos, un avión y una botella de licor vacía. Entonces, Johnny decide que hará pagar a los cu...

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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Per festeggiare i cento anni della nascita di Woolrich, Francis M. Nevins ha raccolto quattordici racconti editi su riviste pulp ("Detective Fiction Weekly", "Pocket Detective", "Argosy", "Dime Detective", "Black Mask", "Baffling Detective Stories"). I primi tredici furono pubblicati tra il 1936 e il 1943. Il quattordicesimo, "New York Blues", che dà il titolo a questo volume, ha una storia diversa. Uscì postumo nel 1970 sulla "Ellery Queen's ...

Alcuni dei più importanti racconti di Cornell Woolrich. Del filone noir, tanto caro all'autore, spiccano "La figlia di Endicott" (1938) in cui un capitano distrugge gli indizi che sembrano collegare sua figlia con un omicidio e fa perfino arrestare un'innocente per non vedere rovinata la sua reputazione, e "Detective William Brown" (1938), archetipo dello "sbirro noir": un opportunista senza scrupoli che sale nella gerarchia delle forze dell'o...

In Woolrich's iconic tale, Detective Tom Shawn saves a lovely young woman from a suicide attempt one night and later hears her story. She is in despair because the death of her wealthy father has been predicted by a confidence man seemingly gifted with the power of clairvoyance, a man whose predictions have unerringly aided her father in his business many times before. Shawn and a squad of detectives investigate this dire prediction and try to...

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