James M. Cain

The Postman Always Rings Twice starring Lana Turner by James M. Cain
The sign outside the roadside diner says "Man Wanted." Drifter Frank Chambers knows the sign has more thanone meaning when he eyes pouty, luminous Cora, the much-younger bride of the diner's proprietor.

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Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
"A poet of the tabloid murder."--Edmund Wilson

Taughtly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-Ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published i ... read more

Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain
Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning ... read more

The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
"A good, swift, violent story." -- Dashiell Hammett

An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.

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