Wednesday, December 17, 2014

THE BRIDE WORE BLACK by Cornell Woolrich

I read this book in March of 2005, but reread it and finished in Mo 12/15/14

A series of murders by a beautiful woman is a mystery to the police.
She is killing a group of five men who killed her husband on their wedding day.
Nick was killed, and Julie Killeen seeks her revenge

Bliss- pushed off the top of a building

Mitchell- poisoned with cyanide

Moran- smothered in a closet

Ferguson- shot through the heart with an arrow

Nick was shot on his wedding day  by what was believed to be a shot from a carload of drunks out 'wilding'.
Actually Nick was trying to end a criminal partnership with Corey. Corey felt that he knew too much about the enterprise, so he found where Nick and Julie were to be married and timed his shot to make it looked like the joyriders were responsible.

The last killing was Holmes who was a cop pretending to be a writer

The book was written in 1940 and French New Wave director, Francois Truffaut's first film in 1968

The author died from alcoholism and a leg amputation that was due to an untreated laceration from a too tight-fitting left shoe. WOW!!!!!

Cornell Woolrich at wikipedia-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Woolrich



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