six short stories. Title story became the basis for two Hollywood movies of the same name:
- I'LL TAKE YOU HOME, KATHLEEN (first published as ONE LAST NIGHT in STREET & SMITH'S DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE, May 1940)
- "Screen-Test" (first published as "Preview to Death" in DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE, Nov. 15, 1934; reprinted as "Screen Test" in THE SAINT MAGAZINE, July 1967)
- "I O U" (with no periods; first published as "I.O.U.—One Life" in DOUBLE DETECTIVE, Nov. 1938; reprinted as "Debt of Honor" in ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE, Oct. 1954; reprinted as "I.O.U." in KEYHOLE MYSTERY MAGAZINE, June 1960)
- THREE O'CLOCK (first published in DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY, Oct. 1, 1938, under Woolrich's pen name "William Irish")
- NIGHTMARE (first published as AND SO TO DEATH in ARGOSY, Mar. 1, 1941, apparently under Woolrich's pen name "William Irish"; reprinted in STRANGE DETECTIVE MYSTERIES [Canada], Jan. 1945, under that same title; reprinted as NIGHTMARE in MIKE SHAYNE MYSTERY MAGAZINE, Aug. 1971);
- "Bequest" (first published as "Implacable Bequest" in DETECTIVE TALES, Sep. 1942)
Author
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...]
