Waltz into Darkness - Softcover

Woolrich, Cornell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345306694 ISBN 13: 9780345306692

Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc., 1983

Synopsis

Lou Durand, a prosperous New Orleans businessman, falls obsessively in love with Julia, the mysterious woman who assumed the identity of the woman with whom he had corresponded

About this title

About the Author:

Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich (born 4 December 1903 – died 25 September 1968) was an American novelist and short story writer who sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley. He is rated the fourth best crime writer of his day, behind only Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler. A check of film titles reveals that more film noir screenplays were adapted from works by Woolrich than any other crime novelist, and many of his stories were adapted during the 1940s for Suspense and other dramatic radio programs. Woolrich's novels written between 1940 to 1948 are considered his principal legacy. During this time, he definitively became an author of novel-length crime fiction which stand apart from his first six works, written under the influence of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc.
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0345306694
• ISBN 13: 9780345306692
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 320