
1946 film noir directed by Harold Clerman, screenplay by Clifford Odets from a novel by Cornell Woolrich

1946 film noir directed by Harold Clerman, screenplay by Clifford Odets from a novel by Cornell Woolrich

cover art by Edgar A. Whitney
better image than previously posted
~ Dwight V. Babcock, “Murder on the Gayway”, 6th of 7 Beeker stories, ‘SF World’s Fair, Treasure Island Nude Ranch’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), 20th of 21 stories in BM
~ William Cole, “Waiting for Rusty”, ‘short-short’, only appearance in BM
~ Tiah Devitt, “The Haunted Inn”, last of 2 stories in BM
~ Mark Harper, “Death Rides Double”, ‘motorcycle cop’, pseudonym of Joseph T. Shaw, editor of BM, only fiction to appear under this name in the magazine
~ Fred Hodgkins, “Strangle-Hold”, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
~ C.S. Montanye (Carleton Stevens), “Moron’s Holiday”, last of 29 stories in BM
~ Roger Torrey, “Kill That Witness”, ‘12th (of 14) in Pat McCarthy series, with Marge Chalmers often his “sidekick”; he is ex-NYC cop, ex-agency man (Chicago & St. Louis) who dislikes cops’, 39th of 50 appearances in BM
~ Cornell Woolrich, “Collared”, ‘see p.31 for letter from CW on this story’, 14th of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM
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October 1937 issue
cover art by Malvin Singer
Carroll John Daly, “Anyone’s Corpse” (Race Williams)
T.T. Flynn, “Burning Ice”
Fred MacIsaac, “Fall-Guy” (Rambler Murphy)
John Lawrence, “Escape Mechanism (Marquis of Broadway)
Cornell Woolrich, “Stuck with Murder”
Donald S. Aitken, “Two Heels Too Many” (Det. Pope)
[updated 11/13/25]

gouache composite illustration on board, 11″ by 17″
1951 Dell 1st edition thus
William Irish was one of the pen names used by Cornell Woolrich

the novelette was originally published as by Woolrich in the May 3, 1941
