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Double Indemnity

James M. Cain

A true crime masterpiece, and highly acclaimed 1940s movie

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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.

 

'[A] fine idea for a series... They already have a superb noir backlist.. but adding Philip K Dick's Minority Report and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? improves the mix.'

SCOTSMAN

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Double Indemnity

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£6.99
Paperback
144 pages
198 x 129 mm
ISBN-10: 0752864270
ISBN-13: 9780752864273
Publication: March 2005
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