Silent As The Grave

Silent As The Grave collects fourteen short pulp 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 after vowing to go home to her mother.
• “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.