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  • af James M. Cain
    108,95 kr.

    'Nobody has ever quite pulled it off the way Cain does, not Hemingway, and not even Raymond Chandler' Tom Wolfe'A sensational achievement' News Chronicle

  • af James M. Cain
    108,95 kr.

    'Cain was not just a great hard-boiled novelist but a great novelist, period ... To read MILDRED PIERCE now is to experience a double vision, in which we confront both how much and how little things have changed' LA TIMES

  • af James M. Cain
    108,95 kr.

    A true crime masterpiece, and highly acclaimed 1940s movie'DOUBLE INDEMNITY is among the finest of all American novels, regardless of genre or style' LA TIMES

  • af James M. Cain
    173,95 kr.

    James M. Cain, virtuoso of the roman noir, gives us a tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful story in Double Indemnity, an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. 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.

  • af James M. Cain
    173,95 kr.

  • - kriminalroman
    af James M. Cain
    138,95 kr.

    Walter Neff er forsikringsagent med rent mel i posen indtil han ved et salgsbesøg støder ind i den forførende Phyllis - femme fatale og i øvrigt gift med den mand, han forsøger at sælge en forsikring.Som hemmelige elskere indleder de to et rænkespil af dimensioner, hvor de vil myrde manden og indkassere hans livsforsikring. Det skal ligne en ulykke, og gerne en togulykke, for i så fald får man dobbelt dækning.Dobbelt dækning er James M. Cains krimi-klassiker fra 1936, der som et katalog i amoral viser, hvor kynisk mennesker kan opføre sig, når det handler om at tilfredsstille trangen til lyst og penge. Romanen er filmatiseret i den berømte opførelse Kvinden uden samvittighed fra 1944 af Billy Wilder med filmdivaen Barbara Stanwyck i hovedrollerne. Den blev nomineret til syv Oscars og har opnået kultstatus som noir-film.

  • af James M. Cain
    132,95 kr.

    "When Frank, an amoral young drifter, gets thrown off a hay truck in the California desert, he ends up at a diner run by Cora and her inconvenient husband, Nick. This chance meeting puts them all on a sure path to perdition. 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." -- provided by publisher.

  • af James M. Cain
    173,95 kr.

    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.

  • af James M. Cain
    113,95 kr.

    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...

  • af James M. Cain
    245,95 kr.

    Seventeen hardboiled crime stories from the "poet of the tabloid murder" and author of Double Indemnity (Edmund Wilson). They call him Lucky-but he has never had a lucky day in his life. A nineteen-year-old hobo just starting to ride the rails, he is hiding in the coal car when the railroad detective comes through. They get into a scuffle, and Lucky's hand finds a railroad spike. Before he knows it, he has smashed the investigator's head and shoved him out of the car. If he hurries, if he's lucky, he will get back to Los Angeles in time to establish an alibi, burn his clothes, and avoid the electric chair. But as Lucky will discover, the deadliest threat is lurking within his own mind. "Dead Man" is just one of the outstanding stories included in this volume. The author of some of the most hard-boiled prose ever written, James M. Cain understood fear in all its forms-and knew better than anyone the terror of a killer on the run.

  • af James M. Cain
    108,95 kr.

    'Cain has established a formidable reputation of furious pace, harsh and masterful realism, tough, raw speech right out of the mouths of the people' SATURDAY REVIEW

  • - roman
    af James M. Cain
    138,95 kr.

    SERENADE er fortællingen om den amerikanske sanger John Sharp, der med et sparsomt spansk ordforråd forsøger at begå sig i Mexico, hvor han opholder sig fordi stemmen – og dermed sangkarrieren – har svigtet ham i USA. Mødet med den betagende Juana Montes giver imidlertid Sharp mulighed for at genoptage karrieren i Hollywood og New York. Her forstyrres den skrøbelige orden, som John og Juana opbygger sammen, af dirigenten Winston Hawes pludselige tilbagekomst i Sharps liv.JAMES M. CAIN (1892-1977), amerikansk forfatter og en af hoved­skikkelserne bag den hårdkogte litteratur, der opstod i 1920’ernes og 30’ernes USA og tæller forfattere som Dashiell Hammett og Raymond Chandler.Cain fik sit litterære gennembrud med debutromanen Postbuddet ringer altid to gange fra 1934 med en rammende skildring af menneskets mørke sider. Cain forargede sin samtid med tabuer i alle afskygninger. Han lod således én af sine mandlige hovedpersoner optræde som biseksuel og udforskede i sine romaner dybt kontroversielle temaer som seksuel besættelse og grænseløs vold.

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