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First edition cover
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| Author | Cornell Woolrich |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
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1940 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback and paperback) |
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!"