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A young vagrant and the sexy, bored wife of a restaurant owner plan to murder her husband, with unexpected results. One of the master works of hard-boiled detective fiction now reformatted for a much broader audience.

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Following her husband's death, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet. At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome schemer and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions with a $50,000 tip and an offer of marriage...

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A true crime masterpiece, and highly acclaimed 1940s movie
'DOUBLE INDEMNITY is among the finest of all American novels, regardless of genre or style' LA TIMES

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'Cain was not just a great hard-boiled novelist but a great novelist, period ... To read MILDRED PIERCE now is to experience a double vision, in which we confront both how much and how little things have changed' LA TIMES

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'Cain has established a formidable reputation of furious pace, harsh and masterful realism, tough, raw speech right out of the mouths of the people' SATURDAY REVIEW

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'One of the great crime novels of all time' Tony Parsons, Express
'Nobody has ever quite pulled it off the way Cain does, not Hemingway, and not even Raymond Chandler' Tom Wolfe

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This collection features three classics from the master of the noir novel--each of which was made into a classic Hollywood film--along with five otherwise unavailable short stories. Ribbon marker.

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"Seventeen gripping tales from one of the toughest authors in the history of crime fiction." -- Provided by the