MILDRED PIERCE is the story of a determined and ambitious woman who, after her feckless husband abandons her, builds a successful business through hard work and sacrifice in order to ensure the future of her pampered and selfish daughter. But she isn't prepared for the intrigues and devastating betrayals of those closest to her.
James M. Cain Book order (chronological)
Three Complete Novels
The Postman Always Rings Twice/Double Indemnity/Mildred Pierce
- 399 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Three of the best novels of James M Cain, all in one volume, stories that encompass suspense, human lust, greed, and self-absorption, they are The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity and Mildred Pierce.
Goldmann Krimi: Doppelte Abfindung
- 156 pages
- 6 hours of reading
The torrid story of Frank Chambers, the amoral drifter, Cora, the sullen and brooding wife, and Nick Papadakis, the amiable but inconvenient husband, has become a classic of its kind, and established Cain as a major novelist with a spare and vital prose style and a bleak vision of America.
Das Mädchen, das vom Himmel fiel.
- 125 pages
- 5 hours of reading