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Reviews"A claustrophobic pulp nightmare...required reading for fans of vintage noir." - Kirkus Reviews "INTO THE NIGHT may well be the most important mystery novel of the year, a truly bravura performance by Woolrich and Block." - West Coast Review of Books "A potent distillation of Woolrich's darkest obsessions." - Chicago Tribune "The supreme master of suspense." - New York Times
Synopsis"REAL NOIR... A GROTESQUELY MEMORABLE RIDE." - WALL STREET JOURNAL TWO OF THE GREATEST AUTHORS OF NOIR FICTION IN AN UNFORGETTABLE COLLABORATION An innocent woman lies dead in the street, felled by a stray bullet. Now it's up to the woman who killed her to investigate the dead woman's life and pick up its cut-short threads, carrying out a mission of vengeance on her behalf against the man she loved and lost - and the nightclub-singing femme fatale responsible for splitting them apart. Begun in the last years of his life by noir master Cornell Woolrich, the haunted genius responsible for such classics as Rear Window , The Bride Wore Black , Night Has a Thousand Eyes , and Phantom Lady , and completed decades later by acclaimed novelist and MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block ( A Walk Among the Tombstones , Eight Million Ways to Die ), INTO THE NIGHT - available here for the first time in more than 35 years - is a collaboration that extends beyond the grave, echoing the book's own story of the living taking on and completing the unfinished work of the dead., Two of the greatest authors of noir fiction in an unforgettable collaboration. An innocent woman lies dead in the street, felled by a stray bullet. Now it's up to the woman who killed her to investigate the dead woman's life and pick up its cut-short threads, carrying out a mission of vengeance on her behalf against the man she loved and lost -- and the nightclub-singing femme fatale responsible for splitting them apart. Begun in the last years of his life by noir master Cornell Woolrich, the haunted genius responsible for such classics as Rear Window, The Bride Wore Black, Night Has a Thousand Eyes , and Phantom Lady , and completed decades later by acclaimed novelist and MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block ( A Walk Among the Tombstones, Eight Million Ways to Die ), Into The Night -- available here for the first time in more than 35 years -- is a collaboration that extends beyond the grave, echoing the book's own story of the living taking on and completing the unfinished work of the dead.
LC Classification NumberPS3515.O6455I5 2024