Trade paperback edition in very good condition.
“I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn’t have the money and I didn’t have the woman.”
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.
Walter Huff was an insurance salesman with an unfailing instinct for clients who might be in trouble, and his instinct led him to Phyllis Nirdlinger. Phyllis wanted to buy an accident policy on her husband. Then she wanted her husband to have an accident. Walter wanted Phyllis. To get her, he would arrange the perfect murder and betray everything he had ever lived for.
*Challenged due to its depiction of adultery, murder, and a miscarriage of justice.
Trade paperback edition in very good condition.
“I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn’t have the money and I didn’t have the woman.”
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.
Walter Huff was an insurance salesman with an unfailing instinct for clients who might be in trouble, and his instinct led him to Phyllis Nirdlinger. Phyllis wanted to buy an accident policy on her husband. Then she wanted her husband to have an accident. Walter wanted Phyllis. To get her, he would arrange the perfect murder and betray everything he had ever lived for.
*Challenged due to its depiction of adultery, murder, and a miscarriage of justice.
ISBN 978-0-679-72322-6
James Cain
1936
