Double Indemnity, Paperback

Descriere

James M. Cain, virtuoso of the roman noir, gives us a tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful story in Double Indemnity, an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. 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.

Despre autor

James M. Cain

romancier american, scriitor de nuvele, jurnalist (1892–1977)

James Mallahan Cain a fost un autor și jurnalist american de origine irlandeză. Deși Cain s-a opus vehement acestei etichetări, el este de obicei asociat cu Școala Americană de roman noir de ficțiune polițistă și este văzut ca fiind unul dintre creatorii acestui „roman noir”. Câteva dintre romanele sale polițiste au stat la baza scenariilor unor filme de mare succes.