Cornell Woolrich published the book "The Bride Wore Black" in 1940 in the USA and in 1948 the complete translation was released in Italy. This work is a mystery novel (belonging to the thriller genre). Regarding the cover, I chose to feature the Italian one.

A beautiful young woman roams around the USA and in each of the places she stops, she kills a man, for unknown reasons, pursuing a mysterious plan. Each chapter is divided into three parts named as follows: "The Woman", the name of the murdered man, and "Post-Mortem". In the first part, "The Woman", a woman is presented, now blonde and short, now brunette and tall, now reddish and of medium stature, who will commit the murder. In the second part, the murder of the victim and the escape of the murderess are narrated (the murderer uses always different methods to eliminate the victims). In the third part, "Post-Mortem", Detective Wanger will try to discover the identity of the murderess, who none of the witnesses have ever seen. At the end of the chapter, Wanger writes the report to his superior. Little by little, he realizes that the death of these men has a logic, which Wanger will discover too late (or almost) to save all four men murdered up to that point, now it will be up to him to try to save the fifth.

During this journey, the reader will wonder why all these murders happen, supporting Detective Wagner, who, in the end, manages to unravel the mystery and the identity of the murderess, with a truly astonishing solution. There is no lack of twists, driven by the will for revenge of Julie Kileen, a murderess who acts because she has suffered an intense pain: her personality is one of a great novel character.

The writing, very enigmatic, instills a lot of suspense in the reader, who, murder after murder, will increasingly be gripped by fear, but also by the hope that Wanger finds the solution. I, for example, when I read it (I was still very young), the night I hadn't finished reading it yet, didn't close my eyes, because I feared she would come, that woman...

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