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  The Postman Always Rings Twice

  by James M. Cain

  Cain's first novel, banned in Boston, was an instant sensation and established him as a master of the mystery/suspense genre.
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  Mildred Pierce

  by James M. Cain

  Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter. Out of these elements, James M. Cain created a novel of acute social observation and devastating... (more)
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  Double Indemnity

  by James M. Cain

  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 noir.
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  Pulp Masters

  Six masters of pulp fiction at its most powerful and suspenseful best -- John MacDonald, James M. Cain, Donald Westlake, Lawrence Block, Mickey Spillane, and Harrington Whittington -- distinguish this new anthology compiled by the award-winning editors of its two popular predecessors, American Pulp and Pure Pulp. Like them, Pulp Masters culls its tales -- in this case, six classic novelettes and one complete novel... (more)
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  The Butterfly

  by James M. Cain

  James Cain's novel about coal mining, illegal spirits, and incest set in the Appalachian Mountains. A hard boiled novel about family dysfunction.
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  Past all Dishonor

  by James M. Cain

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  The Postman Always Rings Twice / Double Idemnity

  by James M. Cain

  THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE & DOUBLE INDEMNITY. First Edition assumed for Franklin Library. Franklin Library, PA 1988. Good/None dust jacket condition as issued.