ジェームズ・M・ケイン

『郵便配達は二度ベルを鳴らす』は、1934年に出版されたジェームズ・M・ケインの小説である。彼の初めての小説になる。 共謀して夫を殺した妻とその愛人の関係を描いているが、過激な性の暴力の描写が話題になった。実際の事件が元になっているという。 …

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. A riveting classic of …

Mildred Pierce is a 1941 hardboiled novel by James M. Cain. It was made into an Academy Award-winning 1945 film of the same name, starring Joan Crawford, and a 2011 Emmy Award-winning miniseries of the same name, starring Kate Winslet.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)These three classics from the master of the noir novel, along with five otherwise unavailable short stories, are electric with the taut narrative voice, the suspense, and the explosive violence and eroticism that were James M. Cain’s indelible hallmarks.The Postman Always Rings Twice, …