The author of Phantom Lady and Deadline at Dawn, both made into smash motion picture hits, presents here a superb collection of spine-chillers, each a polished example of the art of detection, in which Mr. Irish again proves his unique ability to...
In the Spring of 1926 we published Cornell Woolrich’s novel Cover Charge. It was presented to us in the previous autumn, by a young man, just nineteen, still attending courses at Columbia University and it was one of the very few unsolicited...
The Humming Bird Comes Home, a touching story about blind farm woman Ma Adams who just wants her son back. He’s a gangster on the run, and when he finally comes home, he brings trouble with him. Ma Adams relies on touch, hearing and all her wits,...
Larry had started happily on his shipboard honeymoon... his bride a ravishing, exotic girl.
But now, ashore in the tropics, he found a devil in the woman.
Why had her guardian tried to stop them — for his sake?
What strange language...
For years the townspeople had hated “that New York woman,” and now they had her — but good. Five eyewitnesses could swear she fired the shot that killed Jeff Rogers. So, there wasn’t much use in Larry Brett’s rushing down from the Big Town...