Rear Window / Three O'Clock Author:Cornell Woolrich A Cornell Woolrich classic which was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954, Rear Window tells the story of a news photographer who is confirmed to his room with a broken leg. With little else to do than look out his rear window, he becomes well acquainted with the habits and routines of the persons living on the other side of the courtyard.&n... more »bsp; It is a break in this routine that convinces him that a murder has been committed in one of the rooms opposite, and he sets out to solve the crime from his armchair.
In Three O'Clock the central character is a clockmaker, who decides to use his skill to construct a bomb in order to blow up his wife, whom he believes is being unfaithful. But his plan goes badly astray when he finds himself locked in the basement with his own bomb set to go off at three o'clock!« less