Critics consider American writer Cornell Woolrich the Edgar Poe of the 20th century. He is the author of works of a mystical-detective nature on themes of fear and despair, the action of which takes place in a world controlled by devilish forces. In the novel “The Bride Wore Black”, four mysterious murders are committed one after another with fatal inexorability. The killer is a young beautiful woman who disappears without a trace after each crime. What motivates her to kill her victims in the most sophisticated ways?

Translation from English by V. B. Postnikov.