After-Dinner Story

After-Dinner Story
First edition cover
AuthorCornell Woolrich (as William Irish)
LanguageEnglish
PublisherLippincott
Publication date
1944
Publication placeUnited States

After-Dinner Story is a 1944 short story collection by American crime writer Cornell Woolrich under the pseudonym William Irish. It comprises six stories, and includes two of Woolrich's best known works, novella Marihuana and Rear Window (originally published in Dime Detective Magazine under the title "It Had to be Murder"),[1] which was made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954.[2]

  1. ^ "Rear Window". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2017-10-28.
  2. ^ Hitchcock, Alfred (September 1954), Rear Window, James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, retrieved 2017-10-28