Dark Passage

Darker and more obsessional than anything written by Hammett - Woody HautThe mystery man of hardboiled fiction... poet of the losers... If Jack Kerouac had written crime novels, they might have sounded a bit like this. - Geoffrey O'BrienNo writer before or since has had such magnificent obsession with the shadows cast by the victim, the failure, the drop-out, the has-been... his world touches the stark and mysterious realism of Weegee's street snapshots. - Mike WallingtonVince Parry, sentenced to life in San Quentin for the alleged murder of his wife, escapes in an attempt to prove his innocence by discovering just who framed him. Harboured by a woman he doesn't trust, a fugitive from justice in the depths of despair, Parry is forced to take a nightmarish gamble in an attempt to hide his identity from the Law...First published as a serial in the Saturday Evening Post, Dark Passage was filmed in 1947 by Delmer Daves. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall - a classic of the noir genre.With a new introduction by Geoffrey O'BrienCover shows a detail from the Dark Passage film poster.