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After-Dinner Story is a 1944 short story collection by American crime writer Cornell Woolrich under the pseudonym William Irish. It comprises six stories, and includes two of Woolrich's best known works, novella Marihuana and Rear Window (originally published in Dime Detective Magazine under the title "It Had to be Murder" ), [1] which was made ...
After-Dinner Story is a terrific collection of six short stories by the master of suspense, Cornell Woolrich. Everything from revenge for an unsolved murder, to a man convalescing who believes a man has murdered his wife but can’t get anyone to believe him, to pyromania, and a writer whose story eerily resembles an actual murder, make up a ...
Jan 1, 2003 · Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge.
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Apr 26, 2021 · After-Dinner Story - Six men were trapped in an elevator after a terrifying accident. ... The death is labelled as a suicide until, a year later, the murdered man's father invites...
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Sep 6, 2020 · After-Dinner Story. Although never adapted as an episode of Alfred Hitchcock’s television program, “After-Dinner Story” is the ideal example of the suspense thrillers with great twists the show was known for. The premise is high-concept genius: Six men get into an elevator, starting on unlucky floor thirteen.
After-Dinner Story is a terrific collection of short stories by the master of suspense, Cornell Woolrich. Everything from revenge for an unsolved murder, to a man convalescing who believes a man has murdered his wife but can’t get anyone to believe him, to pyromania, and a writer whose story eerily resembles an actual murder, make up a ...
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May 19, 2005 · Indian After Dinner Stories. by. A S Panchapakesa Ayyar. Topics. GENERALITIES. Publisher. D B Taraporevala Sons And Co Bombay. Collection. universallibrary.
