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Author:

Woolrich, Cornell, 1903-1968, author.

Title:

Waltz into darkness / Cornell Woolrich ; introduction by Wallace Stroby.

Publisher:

Penzler Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

342 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Mate selection--Fiction.
Love-letters--Fiction.
Truthfulness and falsehood--Fiction.
Impersonation--Fiction.
Theft--Fiction.
Married people--Fiction.
Swindlers and swindling--Fiction.
New Orleans (La.)--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Noir fiction.

Other Authors:

Stroby, Wallace, writer of introduction.

Summary:

When New Orleans coffee merchant Louis Durand first meets his bride-to-be after a months-long courtship by mail, he's shocked that she doesn't match the photographs sent with her correspondence. But Durand has told his own fibs, concealing from her the details of his wealth, and so he mostly feels fortunate to find her so much more beautiful than expected. Soon after they marry, however, he becomes increasingly convinced that the woman in his life is not the same woman with whom he exchanged letters, a fact that becomes unavoidable when she suddenly disappears with his fortune.

Series:

American Mystery Classics

ISBN:

1613161522
9781613161524
1613161514
9781613161517

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1102475419

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)