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The sightseers would have been disappointed, as the real thing always makes a poorer show than the fake. (I'm Dangerous Tonight)

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The sightseers would have been disappointed, as the real thing always makes a poorer show than the fake. (I'm Dangerous Tonight)

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About Cornell Woolrich

Cornell George Hopley Woolrich ( WUUL-ritch; December 4, 1903 – September 25, 1968) was an American novelist and short story writer. He sometimes used the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley.
His biographer, Francis Nevins Jr., rated Woolrich the fourth best crime writer of his day, behind Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler.