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RE: RARA-AVIS: Re: Cornell Woolrich question
Many thanks to both you and Katherine Harper for your Woolrich info.
--Duane
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>> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 20:03:11 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: Katherine Ann Harper <kharper@BGNet.bgsu.edu>
>> To: "'rara-avis@icomm.ca'" <rara-avis@icomm.ca>
>> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: Cornell Woolrich question
>> Reply-to: rara-avis@icomm.ca
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>> On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Spurlock, Duane wrote:
>>
>> > My next question: This volume includes no publication info on these
>> > stories' original appearance. Can anyone supply date and magazine names
>> > for 'em:
>>
>> Courtesy of Francis M. Nevin's amazing Woolrich biography, _First You
>> Dream, Then You Die_ (NY: The Mysterious Press, 1988):
>>
>> > "Rear Window"
>>
>> _Dime Detective_, Feb. 1942 (as "It Had to be Murder")
>>
>> > "Post-Mortem"
>>
>> _Black Mask_, April 1940
>>
>> > "Three O'Clock"
>>
>> _Detective Fiction Weekly_, 1 October 1938
>>
>> > "Change of Murder"
>>
>> _Detective Fiction Weekly_, 25 January 1936
>>
>> > "Momentum"
>>
>> _Detective Fiction Weekly_, 14 December 1940 (As "Murder Always Gathers
>> Momentum")
>>
>>
>> > Finally, what is the "so-called Black Series of suspense novels"
>>
>> These are better known as the "Serie Noire"--classic American (mostly)
>> detective and crime fiction with a decidedly dark tone. Authors include
>> Woolrich, David Goodis, Raymond Chandler, and the like. The chances are
>> that if a *film noir* was based on a book, that book is one of the Serie
>> Noire.
>>
>Good work Karen.
>
>An added note; The "Black Series" when pertaining to Woolrich
>encompasses his novels with " Black " in the title They are as
>follows:
>The Bride Wore Black
>The Black Curtain
>Back Alibi
>The Black Angel
>The Black Path of Fear
>Rendezvous in Black
>
>I did that from memory, so I may have missed one or two.
>
>> Hope this helps!
>>
>> Katherine Harper
>> Department of English
>> Bowling Green State University
>> Visit the W.R. Burnett Page at http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~kharper/
>>
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