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“Rear Window” by Cornell Hopley-Woolrich, better known as William Irish, was originally published as “It Had to be Murder” in Dime Magazine in February 1942. It is the story of a man convalescing in a wheelchair who spends his days looking out his rear window at the apartments across the courtyard. He believes a man has murdered his wife in one of the apartments, but cannot get anyone to believe him.
The story was made into the Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window in 1954, starring Grace Kelly, James Stewart, and Raymond Burr. This story and other short stories can be found here at Faded Page in the collection After-Dinner Story. Other William Irish crime and suspense short stories include Hot Water, Death in the Air, and Dilemma of the Dead Lady.
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