Author: William Irish
Translator: Woon-kwon Choi
Publisher: Haemun
284 pages.
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About This Book
It all started with Cornell Woolrich, whether using his own name or the
pseudonym William Irish, if you're talking about creating suspense.
Take Phantom Lady, the first book under that pseudonym. Now, the idea is
commonplace. You've read a dozen books and seen a hundred movies with the same
plot idea, but this is where it began.
A condemned man, due to be executed for a crime he didn't commit, watches and
feels the weeks and days and hours slip away as the moment of his execution
approaches.
In case anyone reading the book doesn't quite get it, doesn't quite understand
what it means to be able to count the hours before certain death, Irish begins
each chapter with a time check. The first chapter is headed: "The Hundred and
Fiftieth Day Before the Execution." Chapters 16, 17, and 18 state "The Eighth
Day Before the Execution," "The Seventh," and "The Sixth." There are no other
words in those chapters because nothing happens. But Scott Henderson is in jail
and, so help me, the reader by now feels nearly the same tension that the poor
guy must have been feeling. He didn't kill his wife, and he knows he didn't, and
we know he didn't, but no one else knows. Oh, yes, one other person knows. The
killer knows.
If you can't stand the suspense, don't read this book. If not knowing what is
going to happen next, or in the end, makes you too tense, don't read this book.
You won't be able to stand it. --Otto Penzler
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