At the start of this somber crime novel from Woolrich (1903–1968), originally published in 1940, a woman named Julie buys a one-way ticket to Chicago at New York’s Grand Central Station, but she gets ...
Carroll & Graf, 272 pp., $26 WHEN I WAS TWELVE YEARS OLD, I discovered Cornell Woolrich’s “After-Dinner Story” in an old issue of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, and Woolrich immediately joined the ...