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Author(s) : James M. Cain | ||
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| Brief Tautly 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 in 1935, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noirRead More |
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| Mildred Pierce (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) | |||
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Author(s) : James M. Cain | ||
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| Brief 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 devotion to a ...Read More |
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| The Postman Always Rings Twice | |||
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Author(s) : James M. Cain | ||
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| Brief 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.First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, <...Read More |
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| Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s: The Postman Always Rings Twice / They Shoot Horses, Don't They? / Thieves Like Us / The Big Clock / ... a Dead Man (Library of America) (Vol 1) | |||
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Author(s) : Robert Polito, Horace McCoy, Kenneth Fearing, William Lindsay Gresham, Cornell Woolrich, James M. Cain, Edward Anderson | ||
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| Brief The first collection in a two-volume set celebrating American crime fiction contains classic novels of the 1930s and 1940s, including The Postman Always Rings Twice, Thieves Like Us, Nightmare Alley, The Big Clock, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, and I Married a Dead Man. "...Read More |
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| Packed and Loaded: Conservations with James M. Cain | |||
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Author(s) : John McAleer, James M. Cain | ||
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| Brief In these never-before-published interviews, the author of Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and Mildred Pierce discusses his first notions to be a writer, his newspaper days, his Hollywood years, and Marilyn Monroe with brutal honesty and in a tone and vernacular that only a master l...Read More |
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| The Cocktail Waitress (Hard Case Crime) | |||
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Author(s) : James M. Cain | ||
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| Brief 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 ...Read More |
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| Characters and Plots in the Fiction of James M. Cain | |||
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Author(s) : Robert L. Gale | ||
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| Brief A pioneer in "hard-boiled fiction," James Mallahan Cain achieved fame with his first novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice. His Double Indemnity and Mildred Pierce soon followed, as did successful movie versions of all three novels. With his seventeen other novels and numerous short stories, Cain re...Read More |
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| James M. Cain: Hard-Boiled Mythmaker | |||
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Author(s) : David Madden, Kristopher Mecholsky | ||
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| Magician's Wife | |||
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Author(s) : James M. Cain | ||
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| Three by Cain: Serenade, Love's Lovely Counterfeit, The Butterfly | |||
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Author(s) : James M. Cain | ||
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| Brief All three books are written with an enduring view of the dark corners of the American psyche. Cain hammered high art out of the crude matter of betrayal, bloodshed, and perversity.From the Trade Paperback edition....Read More |
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