The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich

Trade paperback format.  Part of Otto Penzler's excellent American Mystery Classics series. Introduction by Eddie Muller. You can read my write-up of it here on the Green Hand Bookshop blog: https://greenhandbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/cornell-woolrich-dresses-everyone-in.html A police detective seeks the rationale between seemingly-unrelated murders, connected only by the appearance of a beautiful woman each time When the wealthy ladies’ man fell from his balcony in the midst of his engagement party, the police dismissed the death as the result of a freak accident. There was nothing to connect it with the poisoning of a lonely man in his squalid apartment, or with the married business-man killed after him, sealed into a closet and left to suffocate. No connection, that is, aside from the appearance of a beautiful woman in each case, just before the victims met their untimely ends. Nobody knows her identity, where she comes from or whither she goes. Nor do they know why anyone woul