Double Indemnity
About this book
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 fo
Where to buy
No purchase options available at this time.
More by James M. Cain
A Century of Great Suspense Stories
Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, Max Allan Collins, Marcia Muller, Harlan Ellison, Margaret Millar, Donald E. Westlake, John Lutz, Jeffery Deaver, Robert Bloch, Reginald Hill, James M. Cain, John D. MacDonald, Evan Hunter, Ed Gorman, Jeremiah Healy, Sharyn McCrumb, Mickey Spillane, Ed McBain, Lawrence Block, Robert Barnard, Bill Pronzini, Ruth Rendell, Tony Hillerman, Anthony Boucher, Lisa Scottoline, Rex Stout, Georges Simenon, Janwillem van de Wetering, Michael Malone, Ross Macdonald, Fredric Brown, Stanley Ellin, Steve Martini, Erle Stanley Gardner, Ellery Queen, Patricia Highsmith, Anna Katharine Green
Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s
James M. Cain, Cornell Woolrich, William Lindsay Gresham, Robert Polito, Kenneth Fearing, Horace McCoy, Edward Anderson
HARD BOILED
Faye Kellerman, Margaret Maron, Elmore Leonard, Leigh Brackett, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, John D. MacDonald, Chester Himes, Evan Hunter, Ed Gorman, Mickey Spillane, Lawrence Block, Bill Pronzini, Ross Macdonald, James Ellroy, Jim Thompson, Norbert Davis, Robert Sampson, Dashiell Hammett, Andrew Vachss, James Reasoner, David Goodis, Gil Brewer, Helen Nielsen, Paul Cain, Jonathan Craig, W.R. Burnett, Brett Halliday, Raoul Whitfield, Frederick Nebel, Michael Kerr, William Coe, James Hannah, H.A. DeRosso, Benjamin Appel, Daniel Mainwaring, David Alexander
Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics
Walter Mosley, Naomi Hirahara, Leigh Brackett, Margaret Millar, Denise Hamilton, Raymond Chandler, Yxta Maya Murray, James M. Cain, Chester Himes, Ross Macdonald, Kate Braverman, James Ellroy, William Campbell Gault, Joseph Hansen, Paul Cain, Jervey Tervalon