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Murder, Obliquely
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Cornell Woolrich wrote a novelette for Shadow Mystery Magazine's April-May issue of 1957 titled "Death Escapes the Eye". According to Francis M. Nevins Jr., the preeminent biographer of Woolrich, this was the last story Woolrich ever wrote in first person from a woman's perspective, and Nevins says "one of his finest."
However, when Woolrich was contracted to create a collection of new short stories for Dodd Mead in 1958, Woolrich actually revised older stories and included them in the collection titled "Violence". "Murder, Obliquely" is the revised version of "Death Escapes the Eye".
Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich (4 December 1903 – 25 September 1968) is one of America's best crime and noir writers who sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley. He's often compared to other celebrated crime writers of his day, Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler.
He attended New York's Columbia University but left school in 1926 without graduating when his first novel, "Cover Charge", was published. "Cover Charge" was one of six of his novels that he credits as inspired by the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Woolrich soon turned to pulp and detective fiction, often published under his pseudonyms. His best known story today is his 1942 "It Had to Be Murder" for the simple reason that it was adapted into the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock movie "Rear Window" starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly. It was remade as a television film by Christopher Reeve in 1998.
However, when Woolrich was contracted to create a collection of new short stories for Dodd Mead in 1958, Woolrich actually revised older stories and included them in the collection titled "Violence". "Murder, Obliquely" is the revised version of "Death Escapes the Eye".
Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich (4 December 1903 – 25 September 1968) is one of America's best crime and noir writers who sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley. He's often compared to other celebrated crime writers of his day, Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler.
He attended New York's Columbia University but left school in 1926 without graduating when his first novel, "Cover Charge", was published. "Cover Charge" was one of six of his novels that he credits as inspired by the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Woolrich soon turned to pulp and detective fiction, often published under his pseudonyms. His best known story today is his 1942 "It Had to Be Murder" for the simple reason that it was adapted into the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock movie "Rear Window" starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly. It was remade as a television film by Christopher Reeve in 1998.
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