Your Monday Moment of Noir

"All at once he flung his cigarette down, with a long overhand shoulder-roll that had in it both exasperation and final, wearied capitulation. Even the paper of the cigarette had been a little soggy, made it difficult to draw on it satisfactorily. Abruptly he struck out from the doorway, started walking the long diagonal toward his own doorway—and the figure waiting in it so complacently, so sure that in the end he would have to do just this."

Fright
By George Hopley (Cornell Woolrich)
(Rinehart, 1950)

Note: Now available as a sweet new paperback from Hard Case Crime under Woolrich's own name.