Double Indemnity is a detective novella by James M Cain. It was originally published as part of a set with two other stories, called Three of a Kind, in Liberty Magazine. Cain is considered to be one of the founders of the “hard-boiled” genre of detective fiction, which developed during the Prohibition Era in the United States (). First published in , this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir. From the Back Cover 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/5(). Double Indemnity is an impressive novel. It doesn't have the heat of The Postman always Rings Twice, but, except for super-evil Phyllis, is largely more believable. The dialogue, especially, is excellent: clipped screenplay word-bites, with not a thing too much bltadwin.ru: James M. Cain.
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Double Indemnity. (novel) Double Indemnity is a crime novel by American journalist -turned- novelist James M. Cain. It was first published in serial form in Liberty magazine in and later republished as one of "three long short tales" in the collection Three of a Kind. The novel later served as the basis for the film of the same name. Double indemnity, James Mallahan Cain Double Indemnity is a crime novel, written by American journalist-turned-novelist James M. Cain. Walter Huff, an insurance agent, falls for the married Phyllis Nirdlinger, who consults him about accident insurance for her unsuspecting husband. JAMES M. CAIN James M. Cain might be most famous for his novels, such as Double Indemnity, but he actually got his start in journalism. Born in in Maryland, Cain graduated from Washington College and worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun newspaper before he enlisted in the army. While in service in France, he worked as an editor for The.
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