Phantom Lady Author:Cornell Woolrich Phantom lady, I was with you for six hours last night, but I can't remember what you look like, or what you wore -- except for that large orange hat. We sat shoulder to shoulder at a little bar in the east Fifties. We ate dinner together, saw a Broadway show together, shared a cab together. The bartender, the waiter, the usher, the cab ... more »driver -- none of them remembers you. The police say I was home strangling my wife at the moment I met you. You are the only one who can prove my story -- but I don't know your name, or where you live. And I can't search for you from a jail cell....« less
Cornell Woolrich is one of the best at the noir game and this may be his best. Fast paced with enough plot twist the confuse the mind and hide the killer.