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After-Dinner Story
1944 short story collection by Cornell Woolrich
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]