Serie Noire 2: Yeux de La Nuit (Series #A30024) (Paperback)

from DeltaQueen50

Author Cornell Woolrich is a master of the dark noir and in Night Has A Thousand Eyes, he explores the inescapable nature of death. Based on a psychic prediction that in three weeks time he will meet his death at midnight in the jaws of a lion, we read how millionaire Harlan Reid is slowly driven...

from antiquary

I no longer recall the details of the plot, but I still vividly remember that this case gave me a feeling of almost unbearable suspense. It is not s much a mystery in the sense of solvimg a crime, but waiting for one to occur.

from gbelik

This suspense thriller takes place in a short period of time. A wealthy man and his daughter have become acquainted with a man who can predict the future. He is told the day and time of his death. The police are involved, trying to determine the how and why of what they assume is a con. Meanwhile...

from callumsaunders

Cornell Woolrich (here writing under his oft-used 'George Hopley' pseudonym) has often been described as the 'master of suspense' and on this showing, the moniker is justly attributed. Detective Tom Shawn is making his way home one night along the riverside and saves Jean Reid from a suicide atte...

from clfisha

Dripping in atmosphere, laden with suspense this book was unputdownable. Written in 1945 Woolrich (author of rear window) has taken a slightly silly plot and imbued it with his own nihilistic terror making the horror of predestination sincere. Perhaps because it's my first Woolrich I had no idea ...