Double Indemnity
by Cain, James M
James Mallahan Cain (1892 - 1977) was a first-rate writer of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Born in Baltimore, the son of the president of Washington College, Cain began his career as a reporter, serving in the American Expeditionary Force in World War I and writing for The Cross of Lorraine, the newspaper of the 79th Division. He returned from the war to embark on a literay career that included a professorship at St. John’s College in Annapolis and a stint at The New Yorker as managing editor before he went to Hollywood as a script writer. Cain’s famous first novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, was published in 1934 when he was forty-two, and became an instant sensation. It was tried for obscenity in Boston and was said by Albert Camus to have inspired his own book, The Stranger. The infamous novel was staged in 1936, and filmed in 1946 and 1981. The story of a young hobo who has an affair with a married woman and plots with her to murder her husband and collect his insurance, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a benchmark of classic crime fiction and film noir. Two of Cain’s other novels, Mildred Pierce (1941) and Double Indemnity (1943), were also made into film noir classics. In 1974, James M. Cain was awarded the Grand Master Award by the Mystery Writers of America. Cain published eighteen books in all and was working on his autobiography at the time of his death.
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ASE # 766 / Includes Double Indemnity, Career in C Major, and The Embezzler. Designed to fit in a soldier's pocket, distributed to US servicemen during WWII. Printed across two columns to make reading under battlefield conditions easier. Paperback, stapled on the short side. Item Price
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DOUBLE INDEMNITY.
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New York : Avon Book Co., [ca. 1945]. An early reissue of the story on which the famous 1944 Billy Wilder film (scripted by Raymond Chandler), with Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson was based. New Avon Library No. 60. Foolscap 8vo (17cm). [vi],(11)-191,[v]pp. Original pictorial wrappers; some rubbing and light wear; slight scratch to upper wrapper; mild… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Avon Book Company, 1947. Paperback. Avon 137. Slant and heavy fading to spine. A good copy.; Small octavo.
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Double Indemnity
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Random House, 1978-04-12. Paperback. Acceptable. 0.4000 in x 5.7000 in x 4.0000 in. Vintage Books. Rnadom House. 1978. Mass Market Paperback. 125 pages. Some edge wear to cover. Previous owners name is written inside. Pages are yellowed but otherwise good. Item Price
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Double Indemnity
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Double Indemnity
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NY: Avon Book Company. VG. 1943. 1st Printing. Paperback. Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #16, 1943. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2" digest bound in pictorial wrappers. First separate edition of this short novel. A Ver y Good copy. Damp stain on the front cover's upper right corner which affects the first fourteen pages. Thumbnail crease at the front cover' s lower… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: New Avon Library, 1943. Softcover. Fair. 1943 Reprint. Softcover. Fair. Wearing on the covers and spine. Yellowing in the interior. Inscribed by previous owner. Ink mark on copyright page. 191p. Item Price
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Double Indemnity
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Vintage. Very Good. 1989. Paperback. 0679723226 . A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Rubbing and slight creasing to wrapper, slight bruising to top and bottom of spine and edges of wrapper, slight tipwear. ; 7.6 X 5.0 X 0.5… Read more about this item Item Price
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Double Indemnity
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St Helens: Ted Smart. Very Good. 2002. Book Club Edition. Paperback. Trade PB . Light reading creases and shelf wear, slightly slanted spine. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; 136 pages; The classic tale of an evil woman motivated by greed who corrupts a weak man motivated by lust. Together they plot the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Double Indemnity
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Double Indemnity
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Double Indemnity
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Double Indemnity
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DOUBLE INDEMNITY(CRIME MASTERWORKS EDITION)
by JAMES M. CAIN
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LONDON: ORION BOOKS/TED SMART(The Book People). Paperback. Classic crime thriller. First published in 1936. This is a 'Crime Masterworks' edition. Slight wear on cover edges. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Location: STC117 . Very Good. Paperback. First Thus. 2002. Item Price
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Double Indemnity
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Double Indemnity
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Double Indemnity
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