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".
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Cornell Woolrich is widely regarded as the twentieth century’s finest writer of pure suspense fiction. 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. Scott Fitzgerald. 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. 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. Upon his death, he left a bequest of one million dollars to Columbia University, to fund a scholarship for young writers. Source: [http://www.hardcasecrime.com/books\_bi...]
