Cornell Woolrich je považován za nejlepšího autora ryzího napínavého fiktivního žánru dvacátého století. Jeho díla, často s temnými a emocionálně mučenými postavami, se vyznačují mistrovským zvládnutím napětí a atmosféry. Woolrich, který začal psát mainstreamové romány, si získal uznání v oblasti kriminální fikce, kde díky své plodnosti publikoval pod různými pseudonymy. Zanechal po sobě odkaz, který podporuje mladé spisovatele.
Svazek dříve nesebraných napínavých próz spisovatele, jehož osudem bylo stát se Edgarem Allanem Poem dvacátého století, zaujme, nejenom všechny z těch nesčetných, kteří dávno čtou a milují jeho dílo, ale i novou generaci čtenářů detektivek.
Tento svazek obsahuje díla vydaná samostatně: Černý anděl, Dáma měla oranžový klobouk, Nevěsta v černém. Vybral Jan Zábrana. Vydání první (William Irish: Dáma měla oranžový klobouk vydání druhé).
Detektivka, v níž významnou roli při usvědčení vraha má velký oranžový klobouk.
The story that inspired the Alfred Hitchcock film masterpiece! Cornell Woolrich. His name represents steamy, suspenseful fiction, chilling encounters on the dark and sultry landscape of urban America in the 1930s and 1940s. Here, in this special collection, are his classic thrilers, including 'Rear Window', the story of Hal Jeffries who, trapped in his apartment because of a broken leg, takes to watching his neighbours through his rear window, and becomes certain that one of those neighbours is a murderer. Also included are such haunting, heart-stopping tales as those involving a man who finds his wife buried alive; a girl trapped with a deranged murderer who likes to knife his victims while dancing; and a woman seizing her chance to escape a sadistic husband, only to find her dream go terrifyingly wrong.
Novels by Doyle, Maugham, Charteris, MacDonald, Gardner, Woolrick, and Fleming deal with spies and secret agents in World Wars I and II and the cold war
A Centenary Collection of Stories
Cornell Woolrich published his first novel in 1926, and throughout the next four decades his fiction riveted the reading public with unparalleled mystery, suspense, and horror. America's most popular pulp magazines published hundreds of his stories. Classic films like Hitchcock's Rear Window, Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black, and Tournier's Black Alibi came chillingly to the screen from his work. And novels like Deadline at Dawn, Rendezvous in Black, and Night Has a Thousand Eyes gained him the epithet "father of noir." Now with this new centenary volume of previously uncollected suspense fiction edited by Francis M. Nevins--recipient of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for criticism in the mystery field--a whole new generation of mystery readers, as well as his countless fans who have long loved his work, can thrill to the achievement of Cornell Woolrich, the writer deemed to be the Edgar Allan Poe of the twentieth century.
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 eventually her past will catch up with her, in terrible ways...
