James Mallahan Cain Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Narrato con tensione e un'incredibile suspense, "La morte paga doppio" offre una visione penetrante della colpa, della duplicità e di quel tipo di amore ossessivo e privo di affetto che devasta tutto ciò che tocca. Walter Huff è un venditore di assicurazioni con un istinto infallibile per i clienti in difficoltà, e il suo istinto lo porta a Phyllis Nirdlinger. Phyllis desidera acquistare una polizza contro gli infortuni per suo marito. Poi desidera che suo marito abbia un incidente. Walter desidera Phyllis. Per ottenerla, organizzerà l'omicidio perfetto e tradirà tutto ciò per cui ha mai vissuto.

A collection of stories, both early and late, that show how James M. Cain made his name There is a hungry tiger loose in the house, and that is not good news for anyone. A jealous husband let the animal out of his cage hoping he would eat his wife alive, but tigers aren’t used to taking orders. This jungle cat will get his meal, and he doesn’t care where it comes from. “The Baby in the Icebox” begins with a murdered wildcat and ends with a dead human—and what comes in between is some of the most striking prose James M. Cain ever put to paper. It is one of the first stories this master of crime fiction ever wrote, and it shows all the hallmarks of the novels that would later make him famous—namely Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice . The tales in this collection are short, but Cain never needed more than a few pages to thrill.

Detektivní román Pošťák vždycky zvoní dvakrát vyšel poprvé v roce 1934 v Bostonu a vzápětí byl zakázán pro přemíru násilí a erotiky. Přesto se jeho autor stal uznávaným prozaikem s osobitou vizí, popisující odvrácenou stranu Ameriky a románem Pošťák zvoní vždycky dvakrát se inspiroval Camus při psaní svého románu Cizinec.

This 1982 edition is published by Avenel Books, distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc., by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

John Sharp had just flopped in Rigoletto, down in Mexico, when he first saw Juana. Somehow, the beautiful Mexican-Indian prostitute offered him a way back, a chance to rebuild his career in New York and Hollywood. But then, like the snake in the garden, Winston Hawes, the prodigiously accomplished conductor, came back in to Sharp's life and an eternal, and lethal, triangle was formed.

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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, 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.