by Cornell Woolrich · Longman ELT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780003707359
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«Rear Window» is the suspense story by Cornell Woolrich, published in 1991 by Longman ELT in paperback (80 pages, in English).
Hal Jefferies, convalescing in his apartment with a broken leg, watches the lives of his neighbours from his rear window. When a woman disappears and her husband behaves strangely, Jefferies believes she has been murdered; the problem is that he has no proof.
It belongs to the Collins English Library graded readers series. The original story was published as «It Had to Be Murder» in 1942 and inspired the film Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock.
For students of English as a foreign language who want to practise reading with a classic of suspense.
Cornell George Hopley Woolrich was an American novelist and short story writer. He sometimes used the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley. His biographer, Francis Nevins Jr., rated Woolrich the fourth best crime writer of his day, behind Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler.
