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| Author | Cornell Woolrich |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | J. B. Lippincott Co. |
Publication date | 1942 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Phantom Lady is a 1942 crime novel written by American author Cornell Woolrich under the pseudonym "William Irish". It is the first novel Woolrich published under the William Irish pseudonym.
A man is first accused, and then convicted, of murdering his wife. As his execution date approaches, his friends and a sympathetic detective frantically search for his alibi, a woman with whom he'd gone to a Broadway show the night of the murder. None of the people who saw them together recall the woman.
In 1944, the novel was adapted to film, as Phantom Lady .
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