Cornell Woolrich - Four Novellas Of Fear

This is good introduction to noir world of Cornell Woolrich, somewhat forgotten master of noir fiction and often dubbed as 'Poe of twentieth century'. Woolrich was a troubled man, deeply attached to his mother, closeted homosexual and his life is like some character from his fiction, full of doubt and sense of doom and he tragically ended life in seedy motel after his mother died, with untreated gangrene in his leg, so they had to amputate it. He was bound to a wheelchair (dark irony considering movie rear window based on his story), and he began to drink heavily after his mother passing.

Collected in this volume are four novellas : Eyes That Watch You, great starting point about paralyzed woman who suspects foul play against her son; The Night I Died; gripping story about man who fakes his suicide with an ironic twist at the end; You'll Never See Me Again, probably best story in collection  about wife of a husband who goes from him and in the end one more good story, Murder Always Gather Momentum about desperate man needing cash to pay debt for his flat and when he tries to take money from former employer things go wrong and he accidentally kills him with pistol, leading to further troubles and ending with another dark twist at the end.