Four Complete Novels
- 651 pages
- 23 hours of reading
This 1982 edition is published by Avenel Books, distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc., by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
James Mallahan Cain Books
James M. Cain was an American journalist and novelist, typically associated with the hard-boiled school of American crime fiction and considered a progenitor of "roman noir." Cain’s work delves into the darker aspects of human nature, focusing on passion, violence, and the corrupting influence of desire, all rendered in a famously lean and direct prose style. His narratives often explore moral ambiguity and the inescapable grip of fate, creating taut, suspenseful stories that continue to captivate readers with their raw intensity and psychological acuity.
Cocktail Waitress
- 283 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Following her husband's death, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet. At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome schemer and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions with a $50,000 tip and an offer of marriage...
Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1935, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir.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.
The sultry young wife of a diner owner conspires with an aimless drifter to murder her husband
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.
Il bambino nella ghiacciaia
- 140 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Due assassini, la testa della loro vittima e un ruscello ghiacciato... Lucky, il vagabondo, architetta l'alibi perfetto... Il tigre in cucina, il bambino nella ghiacciaia... Questi sono gli elementi di tre racconti caratterizzati da una prosa snella, trame concise e una voce unica che distinguono anche i romanzi classici di James M. Cain, come "Double Indemnity" e "The Postman Always Rings Twice". Le storie brevi, schizzi e dialoghi, e una novella in questo libro sono pieni di persone intrappolate nella morsa a sangue freddo della passione e del destino. Ogni pagina è scritta nello stile incisivo, veloce e causticamente ironico che ha reso James M. Cain un maestro della narrativa hard-boiled.
Latest American short stories. Jüngste amerikanische Kurzgeschichten.
- 135 pages
- 5 hours of reading
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Il postino suona sempre due volte
- 156 pages
- 6 hours of reading
De oplichter
- 101 pages
- 4 hours of reading
Wanneer een bedrijfsleider in een klein bankfiliaal onderzoek moetverrichten, wordt hij niet alleen verliefd op de vrouw van een collega, maar ontdekt hij ook dat deze collega heel wat geld verduisterd heeft.
Noir - 5: La femme du magicien
- 243 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Dans quel guêpier s'était-il fourré ? Pourtant, dès le début il avait vu clair dans son jeu. Tout de suite, il s'était dit : " Tu sais ce qu'elle veut... Pour toi, c'est terminé. Ne revois jamais cette fille ! " Mais il l'avait revue. Comme par hasard, le vieux était mort. Et il était sûr que c'était elle qui l'avait tué. Maintenant c'était à lui de tuer le mari. Il s'était porté volontaire et il ne pouvait plus reculer. Le tout était de s'y prendre intelligemment...
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.
