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Violence
Some
Moderate; noir violence including murder investigations
Language
Barely any
Mild period language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild adult content in the noir tradition
Substance Use
Some
Significant; mid-century noir world involves conspicuous drinking
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate; the fatalist psychology of noir — the sense that disaster is always incoming
What this book is about
Cornell Woolrich — one of the greatest American noir writers, whose work inspired dozens of films including Rear Window — is represented in this collection by stories featuring female protagonists navigating the shadowy world of mid-century American crime. Woolrich's female characters are rarely passive victims; they are caught, like all his protagonists, in the machinery of fate and circumstance that is his distinctive subject.
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Noir crime content
Mid-century period perspectives on women
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