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Double Indemnity (Crime Masterworks)

Double Indemnity (Crime Masterworks)

by JamesM.Cain (Author)

Synopsis

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 ...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 144
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 21 Mar 2002
ISBN 10: 0752847694
ISBN 13: 9780752847696
Book Overview: #6 in the Crime Masterworks series - a library of the finest crime novels and thrillers ever written. Cain's masterpiece, and the basis of the greatest Hollywood thrillers of the 1940's, with Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson. 'Nobody has ever quite pulled it off the way Cain does, not Hemingway and not even Raymond Chandler. Cain is the master' - Tom Wolfe The basis of Billy Wilder's classic film noir starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred, MacMurray and Edward G. Robinson.

Author Bio
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