The Black Quintet: My Favorites of Cornell Woolrich's Crime and Weird Novels--What are Yours?

In the two decades between 1940 and 1960 Cornell Woolrich published 16 crime or weird novels, with the quality great tapering off, by common consensus, in the second decade. These are:The Bride Wore Black 1940The Black Curtain 1941Black Alibi 1942Phantom Lady 1942 as William IrishThe Black Angel 1943The Black Path of Fear 1944Deadline at Dawn 1944 as William IrishNight Has a Thousand Eyes 1945 as George HopleyWaltz into Darkness 1947 as William IrishRendezvous in Black 1948I Married a Dead Man 1948 as William IrishSavage Bride 1950Fright 1950 as George HopleyStrangler's Serenade 1951Death Is My Dancing Partner 1959The Doom Stone 1960 (episodic novel)What are your favorites? I know it's unoriginal, but I still go with The Bride Wore Black as my favorite, it's just such a fine crystal sacrificial dagger of a book. I need to reread it, but I think the fantastical, fatalistic Night Has a Thousand Eyes runs it close. For tensity I've always loved Phantom Lady and Black Alibi. I think I'll…