IT HAD TO BE MURDER - The short story behind Hitchcock's Rear Window

The novel upon which Hitchcock based the film

"Rear Window".

The chilling and riveting story of a man immobilised in his apartment, observing the minutiae of life - and death - through his rear window. Most of Hal Jeffries's daily observations run to the mundane, until he plays back certain events in his mind and realises that they point to a murder.

What do you fancy doing?

- Read the short story "It had to be murder" by Cornell Woolerich, 1942 (13 pages).

- Listen to it on BBC Radio Reading.

- Watch Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)

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