James M. Cain
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English
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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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Hard case crime ; HCC-109
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English
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A rerelease of a classic tale by the New Yorker journalist and author of The Postman Always Rings. Following her husband's death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of regaining custody of her young son. At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer who makes her blood race and a...
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English
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"Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter. Out of these elements, Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devastating emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions...
4) Cloud nine
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English
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A twisted tale of heinous crimes and hidden motives by the legendary author of Double Indemnity.
Graham meets Sonya outside of his real estate office. She is sixteen, beautiful, and drops a bombshell-she's there because Graham's half-brother, Burl, raped her, leaving her frightened, pregnant, and very much alone.
All she wants is the $1,111 it will cost to hide out for the next few months in a convalescent home before she gives the baby up for...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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While searching for her real father, a runaway stumbles into a deadly mess in this gritty noir novel by the author of The Postman Always Rings Twice.
With just seventy-four bucks in her pocket, Mandy packs her things and buys the bus ticket that will get her away from the stepfather who's been abusing her for years-and the mother who lets it happen. She plans to head to Baltimore and find her biological father-someone she hopes will finally stand...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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"Vintage Cain . . . it's all here-the big money, the unusual circumstances, the spare, tight style, and the staccato dialogue." -The Miami Herald
Since his father died, every Saturday night has been the same for Dave and his mother. She starts to talk, weaving aimless, weird fantasies about get-rich-quick schemes that never amount to anything. But when, finally, she is silent, Dave becomes afraid. Because his mother has a way of getting very close...
7) Sinful Woman
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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In this novel by "one of the greats of American noir," a starlet comes to Reno to start a new life-and end her old one forever (The Guardian).
Sylvia Shoreham's Hollywood dreams came true long ago. Critically beloved for her beauty, talent, and style, she was on her way to international stardom when a bad contract committed her to seven years of trashy comedies and half-baked melodramas. Her marriage to her producer husband has become a rotten,...
8) A Bad Woman
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BookBaby
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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A Bad Woman (originally titled Sinful Woman) is James M. Cain's little gem of a hard-boiled novel, set in the post-War 1940s of Reno, Nevada. Film star Sylvia Shoreham is wowing the dusty gambling town and is hell-bent on divorcing her conniving user of a husband, a foreigner with a slick tongue and a heavy accent. But the husband has other ideas, threatening to marry Miss Shoreham's neurotic sister if she divorces him. Hollywood bigwigs want to
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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For the love of a beautiful waitress, a meat salesman will turn butcher in this crime thriller by "one of the greats of American noir" (The Guardian).
Clay Lockwood. is a top distributing executive with Grant's Meats, and the contract with the Portico restaurant chain is only the latest in a long line of boardroom coups. He arrives at the Portico for lunch, and eats his fill of his company's beef, but leaves with an entirely different hunger gnawing...
10) The Institute
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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An academic looking for money finds a seductive woman-and trouble-in this suspenseful tale by the Edgar Award–winning crime writer.
Professor Lloyd Palmer loves a good biography. His fantasy is to start an institute to teach young scholars the biographical arts, and it will take old money to make his dreams come true. In the Washington area, the oldest money is found not in the District, but in Delaware, a land of wealth so astonishing that even...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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From a famous tough-guy writer, a collection of shockingly funny stories
Ever since she got married, Doris has regretted giving up her singing career. After years of domestic drudgery, she decides to take one last crack at becoming an opera singer, even if it means sacrificing everything for the sake of her dream. Her contractor husband is fully supportive, having no idea that the family’s true musical genius isn’t Doris—it’s...
Ever since she got married, Doris has regretted giving up her singing career. After years of domestic drudgery, she decides to take one last crack at becoming an opera singer, even if it means sacrificing everything for the sake of her dream. Her contractor husband is fully supportive, having no idea that the family’s true musical genius isn’t Doris—it’s...
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Deadtree Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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Back when going to the movies meant a whole afternoon or evening's entertainment not just the one movie. Audiobook radio is proud to be home to the Hollywood Double Bill. Adapted for radio with all the frills including the big stars and hosted by Roger Prior.
14) Mignon
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Dial Press
Pub. Date
1962.
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English
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In the New Orleans of 1864, a Union Army veteran is drawn into the contraband cotton trade by an irresistible young widow.
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Holt, Rinehart & Winston
Pub. Date
[1981]
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English
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A collection of stories, both early and late, that show how James M. Cain made his name There is a hungry tiger loose in the house, and that is not good news for anyone. A jealous husband let the animal out of his cage hoping he would eat his wife alive, but tigers aren't used to taking orders. This jungle cat will get his meal, and he doesn't care where it comes from. "The Baby in the Icebox" begins with a murdered wildcat and ends with a dead human-and...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1946.
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English
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Early in the Civil War, the Confederacy sends Roger Duval to Sacramento, to keep an eye on the situation in California in hopes of turning the Western territory towards the Southern cause. It's a plush assignment, well out of the line of fire, but Duval hasn't been there long before he comes into mortal danger. On a swim in the Sacramento River, he gets knocked on the head by a paddleboat, and is drowning in the muck when Morina, a quick-witted woman...
Author
Series
Publisher
Deadtree Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Back when going to the movies meant a whole afternoon or evening's entertainment not just the one movie. Audiobook radio is proud to be home to the Hollywood Double Bill. Adapted for radio with all the frills including the big stars and hosted by Roger Prior.
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1969-41]
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English
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THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE: Cain's first novel - the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston and the inspiration for Camus's The Stranger - is the fever-pitched tale of a drifter who stumbles into a job, into an erotic obsession, and into a murder; MILDRED PIERCE: Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s America with two...
