"It Had to Be Murder" and Other Stories

Bibliography

Most of Woolrich's books are out of print, and new editions were slow to come out because of estate issues. However, new collections of his short stories were issued in the early 1990s. As of February 3, 2020, the Faded Page has seven titles available as ebooks in the public domain in Canada; these may be still under copyright elsewhere. In 2020 and 2021, Otto Penzler's "American Mystery Classics" series released new editions of Waltz into Darkness and The Bride Wore Black in both hardcover and paperback.

Woolrich died leaving fragments of an unfinished novel, titled The Loser; fragments have been published separately and also collected in Tonight, Somewhere in New York (2005).

Novels

Year Title Author Credit Notes
1926 Cover Charge Cornell Woolrich
1927 Children of the Ritz Cornell Woolrich
1929 Times Square Cornell Woolrich
1930 A Young Man's Heart Cornell Woolrich
1931 The Time of Her Life Cornell Woolrich
1932 Manhattan Love Song Cornell Woolrich
1940 The Bride Wore Black Cornell Woolrich
1941 The Black Curtain Cornell Woolrich
1941 Marihuana William Irish Published in paperback only
1942 Black Alibi Cornell Woolrich
1942 Phantom Lady William Irish
1943 The Black Angel Cornell Woolrich
1944 The Black Path of Fear Cornell Woolrich
1944 Deadline at Dawn William Irish Also published as an Armed Services Edition
1945 Night Has a Thousand Eyes George Hopley
1947 Waltz Into Darkness William Irish
1948 Rendezvous in Black Cornell Woolrich
1948 I Married a Dead Man William Irish
1950 Savage Bride Cornell Woolrich Published in paperback only
1950 Fright George Hopley
1951 You'll Never See Me Again Cornell Woolrich Published in paperback only
1951 Strangler's Serenade William Irish
1952 Eyes That Watch You William Irish
1952 Bluebeard's Seventh Wife William Irish Published in paperback only
1959 Death is My Dancing Partner Cornell Woolrich Published only in paperback
1960 The Doom Stone Cornell Woolrich Published only in paperback
1987 Into the Night Cornell Woolrich (Posthumous release, manuscript completed by Lawrence Block)

Short story collections

Year Title Author Credit Notes
1943 I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes William Irish Also published as an Armed Services Edition.
1944 After-Dinner Story William Irish Includes his noted 1941 novella "Marihuana". Also published as an Armed Services Edition.
1946 If I Should Die Before I Wake William Irish Published in paperback only.
1946 Borrowed Crime William Irish Published in paperback only.
1946 The Dancing Detective William Irish
1948 Dead Man Blues William Irish
1949 The Blue Ribbon William Irish
1950 Somebody on the Phone William Irish AKA Deadly Night Call
1950 Six Nights of Mystery William Irish Published in paperback only.
1956 Nightmare Cornell Woolrich Includes both previously published & unpublished stories.
1958 Violence Cornell Woolrich Includes both previously published & unpublished stories.
1958 Hotel Room Cornell Woolrich
1959 Beyond the Night Cornell Woolrich Published in paperback only.
1965 The Dark Side of Love Cornell Woolrich
1965 The Ten Faces of Cornell Woolrich Cornell Woolrich
1971 Nightwebs Cornell Woolrich
1978 Angels of Darkness Cornell Woolrich
1981 The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich Cornell Woolrich
1983 Four by Cornell Woolrich Cornell Woolrich
1984 Rear Window Cornell Woolrich
1985 Vampire's Honeymoon Cornell Woolrich
1985 Blind Date with Death Cornell Woolrich
1985 Darkness at Dawn Cornell Woolrich
1998 The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus Cornell Woolrich
2003 Night and Fear Cornell Woolrich
2005 Tonight Somewhere in New York Cornell Woolrich
2010 Four Novellas of Fear Cornell Woolrich
2011 Love and Night Cornell Woolrich

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