“The Phantom Lady” by William Irish (aka Cornell Woolrich). Graphic Books 108 (1955). Back cover.
HIS WIFE? Now she lay dead, murdered!
HIS MISTRESS? She was ready to die to save him from the electric chair!
THAT LOVELY BARROOM PICKUP? She held his fate in her teasing hands!
A KILLER just can’t vanish! Henderson knew it, as he waited in the death house. Detective Burgess knew it, with his hard cop’s code: “Killer’s not to reason why, killer’s but to do – and fry!
Yet all the frantic searching had produced no other suspect, not even that tantalizing girl in the bar. She was Henderson’s only alibi – and to save his life, he could not conjure her up for the police!
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Cornell George Hopley Woolrich (1903-1968) 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.
“The Phantom Lady” by William Irish (aka Cornell Woolrich). Graphic Books 108 (1955). Back cover.
HIS WIFE? Now she lay dead, murdered!
HIS MISTRESS? She was ready to die to save him from the electric chair!
THAT LOVELY BARROOM PICKUP? She held his fate in her teasing hands!
A KILLER just can’t vanish! Henderson knew it, as he waited in the death house. Detective Burgess knew it, with his hard cop’s code: “Killer’s not to reason why, killer’s but to do – and fry!
Yet all the frantic searching had produced no other suspect, not even that tantalizing girl in the bar. She was Henderson’s only alibi – and to save his life, he could not conjure her up for the police!
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Cornell George Hopley Woolrich (1903-1968) 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.