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Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity( )
Author: Cain, James M.
Series title:Crime Masterworks
ISBN:978-0-7528-5249-2
Publication Date:May 2002
Publisher:Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Imprint:Orion
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $39.99
Book Description:

DOUBLE INDEMNITY is the classic tale of an evil woman motivated by greed who corrupts a weak man motivated by lust.

Walter Huff is an insurance investigator like any other until the day he meets the beautiful and dangerous Phyllis Nirdlinger and falls under her spell. Together they plot to kill her husband and split the insurance. It ll be the perfect murder

THE AUTHOR James M. Cain was born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1892. Having served in the US Army in World...
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Book Details
Pages:144
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled
Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):14 x 20.5 x 1.5 cm
Book Weight:0.253 Kilograms
Author Biography
Cain, James M. (Author)
Mystery writer James Mallahan Cain was born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1892. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Washington College, and served in the military as editor-in-chief of the official newspaper of the 79th Division, American Expeditionary Forces.

Cain worked as a staff reporter for the Baltimore Sun; he became a professor of journalism in the 1920s; he worked as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1930s and 40s. Many of his stories, including Double Indemnity (1943), have been made into successful films. Joan Crawford won an Academy Award in 1945 for her portrayal of Cain's Mildred Pierce (1941).

Cain's first novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), was said to have inspired Albert Camus' The Stranger, but offended sensibilities in the U.S. and was even tried for obscenity in Boston. The novel was eventually made into a movie in 1946, starring Lana Turner and again in 1981, with Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange. In all, Cain authored eighteen books.

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