Double Indemnity
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James M. Cain
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • 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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Author
James M. Cain
Pages
128
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2011-01-05
ISBN
0307778428 9780307778420
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"As far as noir goes, this is fantastic. A very quick and dirty look at a planned murder that's as fun to read as anything else you can name. M. Cain is the man."
Andrew Greene
