The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred

The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories (Everyman's Library Classics)

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)These three classics from the master of the noir novel, along with five otherwise unavailable short stories, are electric with the taut narrative voice, the suspense, and the explosive violence and eroticism that were James M. Cainâ€™s indelible hallmarks.The Postman Always Rings Twice, Cainâ€™s first novelâ€“the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston, the inspiration for Camusâ€™s The Strangerâ€“is the fever-pitched tale of a drifter who stumbles into a job, into an erotic obsession, and into a murder. Double Indemnityâ€“which followed Postman so quickly, Cainâ€™s readers hardly had a chance to catch their breathâ€“is a tersely narrated story of blind passion, duplicity, and, of course, murder. Mildred Pierce, a work of acute psychological observation and devastating emotional violence, is the tale of a woman with a taste for shiftless men and an unreasoned devotion to her monstrous daughter. All three novels were immortalized in classic Hollywood films. Also included here are five masterful storiesâ€“â€œPastorale,â€ â€œThe Baby in the Icebox,â€ â€œDead Man,â€ â€œBrush Fire,â€ â€œThe Girl in the Stormâ€â€“that have been out of print for decades.

The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories (Everyman's Library Classics)