Literary Noir: A Series of Suspense: Volume One by Cornell Woolrich

Author:Cornell Woolrich [Woolrich, Cornell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: suspense, noir, pulp, mystery, crime, whodunit, Cornell Woolrich, William Irish
Publisher: Estate of Cornell Woolrich in conjunction with Renaissance Literary & Talent
Published: 2018-05-04T07:00:00+00:00

She found herself looking at the house from the opposite side of the street. Its cracker-box outline, its canary-brick facing, dim with soot, looked so prosaic, so matter-of-fact. It was just a flat like thousands of others, all over the city. On nearly every street you could see one just like it.

She tried to tear herself away, and she couldn't. She wondered: behind which one of those windows is she sitting, agonized, stifling her pain? Waiting for the night to come. He dies tonight; tonight is his last night.

I'm the only one can save him. If I go on my way now, if I go home, nothing can save him; he'll surely die tonight. If I come back tomorrow, it'll be too late. He'll be gone, then, and nothing can bring him back.

She crossed the street, against the traffic, dazedly, like a sleepwalker. She went up to the door, pulled it open, went inside. She was in a grubby hallway that smelled of dust and stale cooking. She went over to the letter boxes and lowered her head, scanning the names.

A janitress came out from behind the stairs carrying a pail of water. "Who did you wish to see, Missus?"

"Considine. Are they—is she still living here?"

"Sure. She's up on the third. You know her?"

"No," Frances said simply. "I felt I—had to see her. I feel sorry for people in trouble."

The janitress nodded. "Yes, that's trouble, all right."

"What's she like?" Frances asked.

"Like you. About your age. Nice little body. She was so happy with him before it happened. She had another baby since they took him to jail."

"She's taking it hard, I suppose?"

Again the janitress' choice of an illustration was deadly. "Wouldn't you? He was all she had."

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