Author: jamesmcain
Following her husband’s death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of regaining custody of her young son. At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer who makes her blood race and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her … rewards her for her attentions with a $50,000 tip and an unconventional offer of marriage…The last, lost crime novel by one of the greatest noir novelists of all time,…
A classic work of noir fiction! When a beautiful woman conspires with a young drifter to murder her husband, nothing goes as planned… “A good, swift, violent story” (Dashiell Hammett) with over 6,600 five-star Goodreads ratings.
A “rip-roaring… classic” tale (Publishers Weekly): In 1930s Los Angeles, Mildred strives for a better life — but her love for her selfish daughter could be her undoing. “Nobody has quite pulled it off the way Cain does” (Tom Wolfe).
James M. Cain, virtuoso of the roman noir, gives us a tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful story in Double Indemnity, an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. Walter Huff was an insurance salesman with an unfailing instinct for clients who might be in trouble, and his instinct led him to Phyllis Nirdlinger. … him to Phyllis Nirdlinger. Phyllis wanted to buy an accident policy on her husband. Then she wanted her husband to have an accident. Walter wanted Phyllis. To get her, he would arrange the perfect murder and betray…