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Double Indemnity

By James M. Cain

By James M. Cain

By James M. Cain

By James M. Cain

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Paperback $16.00

May 14, 1989 | ISBN 9780679723226

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Jan 05, 2011 | ISBN 9780307778420

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    About Double Indemnity

    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. 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 everything he had ever lived for.

    About Double Indemnity

    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. 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 everything he had ever lived for.

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    About James M. Cain

    James M. Cain was a first-rate writer of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Born in Baltimore in 1892, Cain began his career as a reporter, serving in the American Expeditionary Force in World War I and writing for the newspaper of… More about James M. Cain

    About James M. Cain

    James M. Cain was a first-rate writer of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Born in Baltimore in 1892, Cain began his career as a reporter, serving in the American Expeditionary Force in World War I and writing for the newspaper of… More about James M. Cain

    Product Details

    Category: Noir Mysteries | Crime Mysteries

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    May 14, 1989 | 128 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679723226

    Category: Noir Mysteries | Crime Mysteries

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Jan 05, 2011 | 128 Pages | ISBN 9780307778420
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