Darkness at Dawn: Early Suspense Classics by Cornell Woolrich (Mystery Makers) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809312328 ISBN 13: 9780809312320

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985

Synopsis

From 1934 until his death in 1968, Cor­nell Woolrich wrote dozens of “tales of love and despair” that chill the heart and display his mastery of the genre he all but created. In a title for a story he never wrote, he captured the essence of his tortured world: “First you dream, then you die.”
 
Introducing these 13 tales, Nevins de­scribes the dark world Woolrich so viv­idly creates. “The dominant reality in his world is the Depression, and Woolrich has no peers when it comes to describing a frightened little guy in a tiny apartment with no money, no job, a hun­gry wife and children, and anxiety eating him like a cancer. If a Woolrich protago­nist is in love, the beloved is likely to vanish in such a way that he not only can’t find her but can’t convince anyone she ever existed.”

About this title

About the Author:

Frances M. Nevins, Jr., a Professor at the St. Louis University School of Law, has received the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allen Poe Award for criticism.

 

Martin H. Greenberg is on the fac­ulty of the College of Community Ser­vices at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay.

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0809312328
• ISBN 13: 9780809312320
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Nevins Jr. Professor Francis M., Greenberg Martin H.