Recommended reading - Double Indemnity (1943)

Double Indemnity (1943).

by James M. Cain.

 

Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard.

Paperback.

 

ISBN-10: 9780679723226

ISBN-13: 978-0679723226

 

Description:

“An American masterpiece.” – Ross Macdonald.

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.

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.

“No one has ever stopped reading in the middle of one of Jim Cain’s books.” – Saturday Review of Literature.