Waking nightmare in print

I just finished reading "MOMENTUM," a.k.a. "Murder Always Gathers Momentum," by the king of noir writers, CORNELL WOOLRICH.
First published in Detective Fiction Weekly on Dec. 14, 1940, the story concerns a debt-ridden man who almost accidentally commits a murder.
From that point, murder follows murder follows murder, as the police close in and the reluctant perpetrator staggers through a waking nightmare.
Sometimes called "the Hitchcock of the written word," Woolrich was uncanny in his ability to place his protagonists in the most nightmarish of situations.
The reader squirms as the character falls deeper and deeper into a cul-de-sac of trouble.
It's no surprise Woolrich's work made it onto film -- including the celebrated ALFRED HITCHCOCK classic, "Rear Window."
Woolrich's stories bristle with tension and the plot twists always leave me laughing at their audacity.