Silent As The Grave

Silent As The Grave collects fourteen crime tales by Cornell Woolrich, along with the author’s autobiographical essay “Even God Felt the Depression.”

The collection includes:

• “Dime A Dance,” a.k.a. “The Dancing Detective,” where a serial killer targets a taxi dancer trying to discover the identity of her friend’s slayer.
• “Two Fellows in a Furnished Room,” where the friendship of two roommates is tested by the murder of a woman.
• “You’ll Never See Me Again,” where a young bride vanishes without a trace.
• “Murder at the Automat,” where a man is killed at an automated restaurant by a poisoned bologna sandwich.
• “Bequest,” where a man on the lam finds his situation worsening.
• “Collared,” where a woman plots her revenge.
• “Fountain Pen,” where crooks learn the danger of a pen.
• “Silent As the Grave,” where a wife’s vow of silence to her husband is undermined by her conscience.

These and six more tales of murder, madness, and malevolence are included in this volume.