by Cornell Woolrich · ESPASA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467004632
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«La Ventana Indiscreta y Otros Relatos» is the collection of suspense stories by Cornell Woolrich, published by Espasa in paperback (268 pages, in Spanish).
Collection of suspense and crime stories set in urban America of the 1930s and 1940s. Includes «La ventana indiscreta», the story that inspired Hitchcock's «Rear Window»: a man with a broken leg observes his neighbors and suspects one is a murderer. Other stories combine escapes, deceptions and everyday nightmares.
The title story was originally published in 1942 as «It Had to Be Murder»; the volume belongs to the Línea de Sombra collection.
For fans of crime fiction, short stories and classic suspense, with an interest in the stories that inspired Hitchcock's films.
Cornell George Hopley Woolrich was an American novelist and short story writer. He sometimes used the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley. His biographer, Francis Nevins Jr., rated Woolrich the fourth best crime writer of his day, behind Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler.
