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Cornell Woolrich
Paperback | Pages: 291 pages Rating: 3.93 | 599 Users | 78 Reviews
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| Title | : | Phantom Lady |
| Author | : | Cornell Woolrich |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 291 pages |
| Published | : | August 1st 2001 by iBooks (first published 1942) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Noir. Crime. Fiction. Thriller. Suspense |
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Phantom lady, I was with you for six hours last night, but I can't remember what you look like, or what you wore -- except for that large orange hat. We sat shoulder to shoulder at a little bar in the east Fifties. We ate dinner together, saw a Broadway show together, shared a cab together.The bartender, the waiter, the usher, the cab driver -- none of them remembers you. The police say I was home strangling my wife at the moment I met you.
You are the only one who can prove my story -- but I don't know your name, or where you live. And I can't search for you from a jail cell....
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| Original Title: | Phantom Lady |
| ISBN: | 0743423739 (ISBN13: 9780743423731) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Scott Henderson |
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Ratings: 3.93 From 599 Users | 78 ReviewsCriticism Of Books Phantom Lady
I wish that Cornell Woolrich were better known. Why this master of suspense is not a household name remains a mystery. I thoroughly recommend you read anything he has written, even if crime is not your usual genre. His are crime stories, but what stories, what characters, what psychology! I also recommend the films made from his stories. The best known, I guess, is Rear Window with James Stewart and Grace Kelly.I read Phantom Lady after seeing the film of the same name. If I needed confirmation
Book has the following inscription: "To Barry from Cornell"The book is : Black cloth, green/silver letters/stamp to spine. Book has the following dedication: To Apartment 605, Hotel M- in unmitigated thankfulness (at not being in it any more)
Synopsis: where is the phantom lady? The narrator is accused of murder; he has an alibi but he can't find her.
My copy of this is in an old book I found called The Best of William Irish - this was a pen name he had in the 40s, maybe because he produced so much (like Richard Bachman?). Phantom Lady was pretty good. Amazing suspense, of course, with a strong plot twist at the end. I love Woolrich like no other, but actually I often find him boring about half the time. Only, when he is good - isolated lines even - he is phenomenally astounding. They call him the father of noir, and I can see this, but it's
A fine as the finest suspense noir books ever existed with tiny bits of imperfection and an unnecessarily tedious finale.There's probably more moviemaking skills in his writing than in all the movies that have been shot based on his stories.Sometimes I am so entrapped in the scenes, living them like in a film in my mind that I fail completely to understand how he does it. It's all there in the talent but 'how' is still a Woolrich's mystery.
We re just companions for an evening. Two people having dinner together, seeing a show together. No names, no addresses, no irrelevant personal references and details Scott Henderson is a condemned man. Time is of the essence. His wife, a victim of apparent foul play; yet Henderson maintains his innocence. All clues point to him, and now he awaits his death sentence. A woman who he was with could prove an alibi, but where is she? Shes a phantom: no one knows her, no one has seen her. Its as if
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