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Country United States Publication date 1940 Followed by The Black Curtain | 3.9/5 Goodreads Language English Originally published 1940 Genre Crime Fiction Publisher Simon & Schuster | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback and paperback) Adaptations The Bride Wore Black (1968) Similar Cornell Woolrich books, Crime Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Bride Wore Black is a 1940 American novel written by Cornell Woolrich. In 1967, it was adapted into a film of the same name by the French director François Truffaut.
The novel opens with a quote from Guy de Maupassant's short story, "Le Horla" (in English as "The Diary of a Madman"): "For to kill is the great law set by nature in the heart of existence! There is nothing more beautiful and honorable than killing!"
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