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What if you woke up to discover everyone thought you were somebody else? Pregnant and abandoned, all Helen Georgesson has is five dollars and a one-way ticket to San Francisco. Then she is involved in a train crash, and regains consciousness only to discover that she has given birth - and, in a bizarre twist of fate, has been mistaken for somebody else. Helen decides to claim this opportunity to make a new life for herself and her son. But eventually her past will catch up with her, in terrible ways...

Die Sammlung bietet spannende Einblicke in die düstere Welt des Verbrechens, mit Geschichten, die sowohl psychologische als auch gesellschaftliche Themen behandeln. In "After-Dinner Story" sind sechs Männer nach einem Aufzugunfall gefangen, und ein mysteriöser Mord wird als Selbstmord abgetan. "Die Nacht enthüllt" thematisiert das Misstrauen eines Versicherungsagenten gegenüber seiner Frau, die als mögliche Brandstifterin verdächtigt wird. Zudem enthält das Buch bekannte Werke wie "Marihuana" und "Rear Window", die beide filmisch adaptiert wurden und Woolrichs meisterhafte Erzählkunst demonstrieren.

"When Quinn first meets Bricky, she's working as a partner-for-hire at a dancehall and he's struggling to shake the anxiety of his guilty conscience. Earlier that day, the young man took advantage of a found key and used it to rob a stranger's home and now, with tthe purloined money in his pocket, Quinn is unable to escape the memory of his wrongdoing. When the club closes, he and Bricky--now linked by a budding romance--return to the scene of the crime intending to restore the stolen fortune, only to discover, upon arrival, that the owner of the property has been murdered. There's evidence present that links Quinn to the crime, and he expects that, as soon as day breaks and the authorities learn of the gruesome scene, he will be arrested straight away.Which mean that he and Bricky have only a few short hours to find the true killer and clear Quinn's name for good." -- Book jacket

Estos dos apasionantes relatos policíacos demuestran la maestría de Cornell Woolrich en el manejo del suspense y la intriga. En El ojo de cristal, un muchacho ingenioso y valiente sigue el rastro de un asesino, mientras que en Charlie saldrá esta noche un capitán de policía presiente que su propio hijo es un peligroso atracador.