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Book SynopsisA 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
''Cain is the master'' Tom Wolfe
DOUBLE INDEMNITY is the classic tale of an evil woman motivated by greed who corrupts a weak man motivated by lust.
Walter Huff is an insurance investigator like any other until the day he meets the beautiful and dangerous Phyllis Nirdlinger and falls under her spell. Together they plot to kill her husband and split the insurance. It''ll be the perfect murder . . .
Trade ReviewDOUBLE INDEMNITY is among the finest of all American novels, regardless of genre or style * LA TIMES *
Nobody has ever quite pulled it off the way Cain does, not Hemingway and not even Raymond Chandler. Cain is the master -- Tom Wolfe
[A] fine idea for a series... They already have a superb noir backlist.. but adding Philip K Dick's Minority Report and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? improves the mix. * SCOTSMAN *
