The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Postman Always Rings Twice
Author: James M. Cain
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2010-11-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307772942

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The bestselling sensation—and one of the most outstanding crime novels of the 20th century—that was banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, and acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger. The basis for the acclaimed 1946 film. 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, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger.

The Voice of James M. Cain

The Voice of James M. Cain
Author: David Madden
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2020-02-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1493048139

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James M. Cain was among the prominent member of the "hard-boiled" school of writing that characterized the 1930s and 1940s, one of the masters of the genre that included Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. His novels became such popular film noir classics as The Postman always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce, and his 1937 novel Serenade boldly portrayed its hero as a bisexual. Cain also taught journalism at various colleges in Maryland, wrote editorials for the New York World, and was for a brief time managing editor at The New Yorker. This is the first biography of James M. Cain written with the full cooperation of the late novelist's family.

The Cocktail Waitress

The Cocktail Waitress
Author: James M. Cain
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2012-09-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 178116035X

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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 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, author of Mildred Pierce, Double Indemnity, and The Postman Always Rings Twice. Now published for the very first time - including an afterword by editor Charles Ardai!

Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce
Author: James M. Cain
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2010-12-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307772934

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In Mildred Pierce, noir master James M. Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devasting emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable. 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 monstrous daughter.

James M. Cain

James M. Cain
Author: Paul Skenazy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1989
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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Serenade

Serenade
Author: James Mallahan Cain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1938
Genre:
ISBN:

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Hårdkogt amerikansk roman fra 30'erne om en sanger, der indvikles i intriger, hver gang han mister stemmen

The Embezzler

The Embezzler
Author: James Mallahan Cain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1944
Genre: California
ISBN:

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Sinful Woman

Sinful Woman
Author: James M. Cain
Publisher: Overamstel Uitgevers
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2013-01-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9049982263

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A starlet comes to Reno to start a new life—and end her old one forever Sylvia Shoreham’s Hollywood dreams came true long ago. Critically beloved for her beauty, talent, and style, she was on her way to international stardom when a bad contract committed her to seven years of trashy comedies and half-baked melodramas. Her marriage to her producer husband has become a rotten, loveless sham, so Sylvia’s silver screen life verges on a nightmare. To escape her celluloid hell, she’s got only one option: Forget Hollywood. It’s time for a Reno vacation. She comes to Nevada hoping for a divorce from her husband, Vicki, and an end to her contract, but the ugly side of the business follows her. To protect herself from Vicki, she enlists Nevada’s biggest Sylvia Shoreham fan. He’s six feet tall, strong as a mule, and just happens to be Reno’s sheriff. When her divorce turns into a war, this Hollywood icon will be glad to have him on her side.

The Butterfly

The Butterfly
Author: James Mallahan Cain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1947
Genre: Authors, American
ISBN:

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More Better Deals

More Better Deals
Author: Joe R. Lansdale
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2020-07-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316479926

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From the Edgar Award-winning author of the Hap and Leonard series, a hard-boiled novel set in 1960s Texas in which a no-nonsense car salesman faces a tempting decision, a dangerous deal, and an alluring affair. Ed Edwards is in the used car business, a business built on adjusted odometers, extra-fine print, and the belief that "buyers better beware." Burdened by an aging, alcoholic mother constantly on his case to do something worthier of his lighter skin tone and dreaming of a brighter future for himself and his plucky little sister, Ed is ready to get out of the game. When Dave, his lazy, grease-stained boss at the eponymous dealership Smiling Dave's sends him to repossess a Cadillac, Ed finally gets the chance to escape his miserable life. The Cadillac in question was purchased by Frank Craig and his beautiful wife Nancy, owners of a local drive-in and pet cemetery. Fed up with her deadbeat husband and with unfulfilled desires of her own, Nancy suggests to Ed -- in the throes of their salacious affair -- that they kill Frank and claim his insurance policy. It is a tantalizing offer: the girl, the car, and not one, but two businesses. Ed could finally say goodbye to Smiling Dave's, and maybe even send his sister to college. But does he have what it takes to see the plan through? Told with Joe Lansdale's trademark grit, wit, and dark humor, More Better Deals is a gripping tale of the strange characters and odd dealings that define 1960s East Texas.