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Wanneer een bedrijfsleider in een klein bankfiliaal onderzoek moetverrichten, wordt hij niet alleen verliefd op de vrouw van een collega, maar ontdekt hij ook dat deze collega heel wat geld verduisterd heeft.

This 1982 edition is published by Avenel Books, distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc., by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

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...

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 .

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An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve. First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside, and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger.

John Sharp had just flopped in Rigoletto, down in Mexico, when he first saw Juana. Somehow, the beautiful Mexican-Indian prostitute offered him a way back, a chance to rebuild his career in New York and Hollywood. But then, like the snake in the garden, Winston Hawes, the prodigiously accomplished conductor, came back in to Sharp's life and an eternal, and lethal, triangle was formed.

Detektivní román Pošťák vždycky zvoní dvakrát vyšel poprvé v roce 1934 v Bostonu a vzápětí byl zakázán pro přemíru násilí a erotiky. Přesto se jeho autor stal uznávaným prozaikem s osobitou vizí, popisující odvrácenou stranu Ameriky a románem Pošťák zvoní vždycky dvakrát se inspiroval Camus při psaní svého románu Cizinec.

Due assassini, la testa della loro vittima e un ruscello ghiacciato... Lucky, il vagabondo, architetta l'alibi perfetto... Il tigre in cucina, il bambino nella ghiacciaia... Questi sono gli elementi di tre racconti caratterizzati da una prosa snella, trame concise e una voce unica che distinguono anche i romanzi classici di James M. Cain, come "Double Indemnity" e "The Postman Always Rings Twice". Le storie brevi, schizzi e dialoghi, e una novella in questo libro sono pieni di persone intrappolate nella morsa a sangue freddo della passione e del destino. Ogni pagina è scritta nello stile incisivo, veloce e causticamente ironico che ha reso James M. Cain un maestro della narrativa hard-boiled.

Dans quel guêpier s'était-il fourré ? Pourtant, dès le début il avait vu clair dans son jeu. Tout de suite, il s'était dit : " Tu sais ce qu'elle veut... Pour toi, c'est terminé. Ne revois jamais cette fille ! " Mais il l'avait revue. Comme par hasard, le vieux était mort. Et il était sûr que c'était elle qui l'avait tué. Maintenant c'était à lui de tuer le mari. Il s'était porté volontaire et il ne pouvait plus reculer. Le tout était de s'y prendre intelligemment...