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  • Foyles

    ‘It is truly an astonishing style, rippling and easy in a nervous sort of way, the people talking as such people would talk, the writing vivid and direct.’ - John K. Hutchens, The New York Times, 1935 Following 1934 hit The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain struck noir gold again the following year with Double Indemnity, originally published with two companion novellas. Inspired by a real-life crime case, Cain weaves the murky tale of insurance agent Walter Huff, who finds himself inexorably drawn to Phyllis Nirdlinger, a woman with plans to murder her husband and reap handsomely from his life insurance. Both commit to the scheme, but the deed done, clouds gather, principally in the form of Huff’s claim manager Barton Keyes smelling a rat. Soon, Huff finds himself in an invidious position, realising the risk of Nirdlinger’s knowledge. The only solution is to kill her too, but Huff is unwittingly little match for fiction’s ultimate femme fatale…

  • TheBookPeople

    DOUBLE 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 ...THE AUTHOR 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.

  • BookDepository

    Double Indemnity : Paperback : Orion Publishing Co : 9780752864273 : 0752864270 : 24 Mar 2005 : 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

  • 0752864270
  • 9780752864273
  • James M. Cain
  • 24 March 2005
  • Orion
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 144
  • Read a Great Movie
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