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Jul 30, 2008
Andy
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Suspense thriller about a woman ending up with a knife in her back at some crowded nightclub. The guy has to run away from the Banana Republic police who are unimpeachably convinced he stabbed her to death. The book perpetually goes through flashbacks showing us, among other things, that the girl was a gangster's girlfriend and the fugitive was his ex-employee he picked up from the gutter. Cornell Woolrich writes these kind of innocent man on the run-type books very well, and either you're in or
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Apr 07, 2011
Sloweducation
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I quite liked Black Path. I had read Rendezvous in Black a while back and been unimpressed. There was something plainly hokey about it. I have the same problem with certain Hitchcock movies -- they are willing to take style any way they can get it, even at the expense of plot. But I recently dug up some old Ellery Queens and, reading "C-Jag," was inspired to pick up The Black Path of Fear. I think in some way the ideal Woolrich story is probably about the length of what the old digests
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Dec 04, 2011
Dan
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Scott and Eve thought they escaped her gangster husband by fleeing to Cuba. They are proven wrong when she is knifed and Scott looks like the killer. Can he clear his name and get out of Cuba alive?
Yeah, I just couldn't get behind this one. I like Cornell Woolrich but his stories are always hit or miss with me. This one is a miss, unfortunately.
I'm not sure why this one rubbed me the wrong way. I think it's because the main character was such a dipshit. By the time More...
Yeah, I just couldn't get behind this one. I like Cornell Woolrich but his stories are always hit or miss with me. This one is a miss, unfortunately.
I'm not sure why this one rubbed me the wrong way. I think it's because the main character was such a dipshit. By the time More...
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Oct 05, 2008
Ian
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This is not the best Woolrich. There's a disjunct between the main character's role - a good guy - and earlier actions and voice in dialogue (bad guy). It has a lot of Woolrich's suspense working for it, but overall, I didn't enjoy it as much as The Bride Wore Black, or The Phantom Lady.
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