DOUBLE INDEMNITY is among the finest of all American novels, regardless of genre or style

LA TIMES

Nobody has ever quite pulled it off the way Cain does, not Hemingway and not even Raymond Chandler. Cain is the master

- Tom Wolfe,

[A] fine idea for a series... They already have a superb noir backlist.. but adding Philip K Dick's Minority Report and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? improves the mix.

SCOTSMAN

A true crime masterpiece, and highly acclaimed 1940s movie'DOUBLE INDEMNITY is among the finest of all American novels, regardless of genre or style' LA TIMES'Cain is the master' Tom WolfeDOUBLE 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 . . .
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From the moment they met it was murder...'DOUBLE INDEMNITY is among the finest of all American novels, regardless of genre or style' LA TIMES
DOUBLE INDEMNITY is among the finest of all American novels, regardless of genre or style
[A] fine idea for a series... They already have a superb noir backlist.. but adding Philip K Dick's Minority Report and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? improves the mix. - SCOTSMAN
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780752864273
Publisert
2005
Utgiver
Vendor
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Vekt
131 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
144

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

James M. Cain was born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1892. Having served in the US Army in World War 1, he became a journalist in Baltimore and New York in the 1920's. He later worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Cain died in 1977.