Phantom Lady
First edition
AuthorCornell Woolrich
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime novel
PublisherJ. B. Lippincott Co.
Publication date
1942
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)

Phantom Lady is a 1942 crime novel written by American author Cornell Woolrich under the pseudonym "William Irish". It is the first novel Woolrich published under the William Irish pseudonym.

Plot introduction

A man is first accused, and then convicted, of murdering his wife. As his execution date approaches, his friends and a sympathetic detective frantically search for his alibi, a woman with whom he'd gone to a Broadway show the night of the murder. None of the people who saw them together recall the woman.

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

In 1944, the novel was adapted to film, as Phantom Lady.


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