The Bride Wore Black

The Bride Wore Black is a crime novel by Cornell Woolrich, published in 1940. It is still copyrighted.
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  • Reading time: 4 to 5 hours
  • Setting: New York City in the late 1930s.
  • Premise: Julie leaves her friend and family, and makes them think she is leaving the city by train. She rents a hotel room and changes her identity and appearance. Then a series of mysterious deaths happens, and each time the witnesses tell about a beautiful woman on the premises. Wanger, a police detective, is investigating the murders. Are they related? Is there one perpetrator? But the murder causes and the victim's profiles are varied, and so is the woman descriptions. The only similarity is that she is beautiful and mysterious...