Cornell Woolrich was an American author and short story writer. He made his debut in 1926 with the release of his first book, Cover Charge.

The name Cornell Woolrich was the author’s birth name, but he also wrote under the pen names of William Irish and George Hopley. Woolrich was born in New York City and Mexico as a youth before attending New York’s Columbia University. He didn’t graduate as he had his first novel published while he was still in school. Cornell worked in Los Angeles as a screenwriter. He also had books turned into movies. Woolrich ended up passing away in 1968. He ended up bequeathing his estate of $850,000 to Columbia University in order for it to be used as scholarship money for writing students.

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Cover Charge (1926)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Children of the Ritz (1927)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Times Square (1929)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Young Man's Heart (1930)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Time of Her Life (1931)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Manhattan Love Song (1932)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Black Curtain (1941)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Black Alibi (1942)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Phantom Lady (As: William Irish) (1942)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Black Angel (1943)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Deadline at Dawn (As:William Irish) (1944)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1945)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Black Path of Fear (1946)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Bride Wore Black (1946)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Waltz Into Darkness (As:William Irish) (1947)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rendezvous in Black (1948)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
I Married a Dead Man (1948)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fright (1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Savage Bride (1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Strangler's Serenade (As:William Irish) (1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Marijuana (1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hotel Room (1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Into the Night (With: Lawrence Block) (1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Doom Stone (1960)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Rear Window (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mystery in Room 913 (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Too Nice a Day to Die (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Guns, Gentlemen (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hot Water (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dark Oblivion (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Collections

Rear Window and Other Stories (By: Maxim Jakubowski) (1942)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Violence (1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Beyond the Night (1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Nightmare (1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Ten Faces of Cornell Woolrich (1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dark Side of Love (1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Nightwebs (1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Angels of Darkness (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Darkness at Dawn (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Vampire's Honeymoon (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Blind Date with Death (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Night and Fear (With: Francis M. Nevins Jr.) (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tonight, Somewhere in New York (With: Francis M. Nevins Jr.) (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Love and Night (2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Literary Noir (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
An Obsession with Death and Dying (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

Daring Detectives(1969)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales of Mystery(1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mammoth Book of Short Crime Novels(1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kill or Cure(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales of the Occult(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Murder to Music(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Vintage Book of Amnesia(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Murder On The Railways(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

If You Like Cornell Woolrich Books, You’ll Love…

I Married a Dead Man begins as a pregnant Helen Georgesson flees her abusive relationship and gets on a train looking for a new life. She ends up meeting a woman named Patrice Hazzard who is also pregnant. Sadly, the train crashes which costs Patrice her life and that of her husband. When Helen wakes up in the hospital she is mistaken for Patrice Hazzard and doesn’t correct them. Patrice’s new family had never met her and they end up taking her in. However, Helen’s ex-lover is not done with her and has plans to get his revenge.

Cover Charge was the debut novel from Cornell Woolrich and it was published when he was just twenty-two years old. The book was heavily influenced by F. Scott Fitzgerald and was written during the Jazz Age. The story is skillfully written, especially for a debut. The book follows the loves and lives of a group of young people as they work through their lives.

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