Recommended reading - The Black Path of Fear

 

The Black Path of Fear

by Cornell Woolrich.

Filmed as The Chase (1946), directed by Arthur Ripley.

ASIN: B000TZ32I8
Published by Ace.
Published 1944.
Mass Market Paperback.
 
Description:
 

The Black Path of Fear (1944) tells of a man who runs away to Havana with an American gangster's wife, followed by the vengeful husband, who kills the woman and frames her lover, leaving him a stranger in a strange land, menaced on all sides and fighting for his life.

 

“A fiendishly ingenious plot … thrilling episodes.” – New York Times.