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Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Cornell Woolrich question 

> 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

> 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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