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In Woolrich's iconic tale, Detective Tom Shawn saves a lovely young woman from a suicide attempt one night, and later hears her story. She is in despair because the death of her wealthy father has been predicted by a confident man seemingly gifted with the power of clairvoyance; a man whose predictions have unerringly aided her father in his business many times before. Shawn and a squad of detectives investigate this dire prediction and try to avert the millionaire businessman from meeting his ordained end at the stroke of midnight. One of Cornell Woolrich's most influential novels, this classic noir tale of a man struggling with his ability to see the future is arguably the author's best in its depiction of a doomed vision of predestination.
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Andrew Pendergrass
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“I enjoyed this book very much- as i always do with Woolrich, but it also kind of drives me crazy. This was a Hoopla audio book. Story of man who can foresee the future and ultimately foresees the death of a rich man. The rich man's daughter is about to off herself (before hand - in tortured foreknowledge) but is saved by a generic police guy. They muddle about and the cops try to figure all the angles and someone tries to take advantage of the fortune see-er but no one understands the deep sorry and pain of this pained Cassandra. I don't need to give it all away, but there are whole swaths of wasted space in there... an endless scene with a roulette wheel to prove ... to prove what? nothing really is said - is the roulette wheel tied to our soothsayer person? Hmmm... so- it is great in settings its dark mood and instilling the dread of inevitability to the story, but rather self indulgent in rolling down aisles the author thinks (?) is deepening the mystery.”
Hail
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“Well-written, compelling prose. Not as noir-ish as I thought it might be. Depressing, though.”
About Cornell Woolrich
From the 1930s until his death in 1968, Cornell Woolrich riveted the reading public with his mystery, suspense, and horror stories. Classic films like Hitchcock's Rear Window and Trauffaut's The Bride Wore Black and novels like Night has a Thousand Eyes and The Black Angel earned Woolrich epithets like "the twentieth century's Edgar Allen Poe" and "the father of noir."
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