On the surface they seem unconnected, but in each case, a mysterious woman was on the scene moments before the victim meets their untimely end. The rest is a cinch."Ha, famous last words.Ī series of deaths have left the police stumped.
Upon his death, he left a bequest of one million dollars to Columbia University, to fund a scholarship for young writers. Because he was prolific, he found it necessary to publish under multiple pseudonyms, including " William Irish" and " George Hopley" Woolrich lived a life as dark and emotionally tortured as any of his unfortunate characters and died, alone, in a seedy Manhattan hotel room following the amputation of a gangrenous leg. The bulk of his best-known work, however, was written in the field of crime fiction, often appearing serialized in pulp magazines or as paperback novels. The author of numerous classic novels and short stories (many of which were turned into classic films) such as Rear Window, The Bride Wore Black, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Waltz Into Darkness, and I Married a Dead Man, Woolrich began his career in the 1920s writing mainstream novels that won him comparisons to F. Cornell Woolrich is widely regarded as the twentieth century’s finest writer of pure suspense fiction.
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