Réunit une sélection de romans et de nouvelles de W. Irish, écrivain américain contemporain qui fut l'un des pères du roman et du film noirs autant en Europe qu'en Amérique.

Rendez-vous en noir : romans et nouvelles

The story that inspired the Alfred Hitchcock film masterpiece! Cornell Woolrich. His name represents steamy, suspenseful fiction, chilling encounters on the dark and sultry landscape of urban America in the 1930s and 1940s. Here, in this special collection, are his classic thrilers, including 'Rear Window', the story of Hal Jeffries who, trapped in his apartment because of a broken leg, takes to watching his neighbours through his rear window, and becomes certain that one of those neighbours is a murderer. Also included are such haunting, heart-stopping tales as those involving a man who finds his wife buried alive; a girl trapped with a deranged murderer who likes to knife his victims while dancing; and a woman seizing her chance to escape a sadistic husband, only to find her dream go terrifyingly wrong.

Fenêtre Sur Cour ;Et Autres Histoires

Rendez vous en noir

It begins as a publicity stunt: a singer parading a jaguar on a leash. But then the killer cat escapes into the heart of a South American city and soon a woman is found torn to death. As the police search for the jaguar, one man looks deeper—for a creature more terrible than any jungle beast . . .

Alibi Noir

What if you woke up to discover everyone thought you were somebody else?Pregnant and abandoned, all Helen Georgesson has is five dollars and a one-way ticket to San Francisco. Then she is involved in a train crash, and regains consciousness only to discover that she has given birth - and, in a bizarre twist of fate, has been mistaken for somebody else. Helen decides to claim this opportunity to make a new life for herself and her son. But eventually her past will catch up with her, in terrible ways.

I Married A Dead Man

Irish revolver

Quand elle décide de rendre visite à la maîtresse de son mari, Alberta ignore qu'elle va découvrir un cadavre. Elle ignore aussi qu'à cet instant précis, commence un dramatique compte à rebours.Car l'homme inculpé du crime et condamné à mort, c'est Kirk, son époux. Et Alberta n'a que deux mois pour prouver son innocence. Deux mois au cours desquels elle va hanter les quartiers les plus sordides du Low East End de New York.Dans ce monde inquiétant, peuplé de déchets humains, se cache l'assassin. Pour l'identifier, elle possède deux indices : une boîte d'allumettes et un carnet d'adresses.Le nom du meurtrier, elle le sait, commence par la lettre M... Ils sont quatre. Mais lequel est le coupable?

Rendez-vous en noir : romans et nouvelles

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