There seems to be no connection between the playboy who fell to his death at his engagement party and the lonely bachelor found poisoned in his apartment…except for the reported sighting of a beautiful stranger just before each incident. And when another man suffocates in his closet after a visit from an unknown young lady, Detective Wanger sets out to track down the mystery woman. A stylish noir novel first published in 1940, The Bride Wore Black launched the career of an author the New York Times called "the supreme master of suspense"!