After-Dinner Story

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After-Dinner Story
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First edition cover
Author Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish)
LanguageEnglish
Publisher Lippincott
Publication date
1944
Publication placeUnited States

After-Dinner Story is a 1944 short story collection by American crime writer Cornell Woolrich under the pseudonym William Irish. It comprises six stories, and includes two of Woolrich's best known works, novella Marihuana and Rear Window (originally published in Dime Detective Magazine under the title "It Had to be Murder"), [1] which was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954. [2]

Contents

Story Summaries

Adaptations

After-Dinner Story and The Night Reveals were both adapted for the Suspense radio show in October [3] and March [4] 1943 respectively.

Rear Window was adapted into the highly acclaimed 1954 movie by director Alfred Hitchcock and starred James Stewart and Grace Kelly. A television adaptation of Rear Window was also released in 1998.

Publication History

After-Dinner Story was first published in the United States in 1944 by Lippincott. It was reprinted in paperback in 1948 under the title "Six Times Death."

References

  1. "Rear Window". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
  2. Hitchcock, Alfred (September 1954), Rear Window, James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, retrieved October 28, 2017
  3. "The After Dinner Story by Suspense". Relic Radio. October 22, 2016. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
  4. "Escape and Suspense!: Suspense - The Night Reveals". www.escape-suspense.com. Retrieved October 28, 2017.