Murder, Obliquely

Murder, Obliquely

Cornell Woolrich wrote a novelette for Shadow Mystery Magazine's April-May issue of 1957 titled "Death Escapes the Eye". According to Francis M. Nevins Jr., the preeminent biographer of Woolrich, this was the last story Woolrich ever wrote in first person from a woman's perspective, and Nevins says "one of his finest."<br /><br />However, when Woolrich was contracted to create a collection of new short stories for Dodd Mead in 1958, Woolrich actually revised older stories and included them in the collection titled "Violence". "Murder, Obliquely" is the revised version of "Death Escapes the Eye".