Stated first trade edition bound in aqua colored cloth and orange boards. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket.

The baby in the icebox and other short fiction

Literature & Fiction

CAÍN, James M.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

A final volume of previously uncollected short fiction and dramatic dialogues includes the long out-of-print short novel, "Career in C Major"

Career in C Major and Other Fiction

United States

McGraw=Hill

Offers the first collection of Cain's shorter fiction work, the sketches and dialogues originally written for journalistic publication, nine short stories, and a novella

The Baby in the Icebox and Other Short Fiction

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Viking Pr

Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter. Out of these elements, James M. Cain created a novel of acute social observation and devastating emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.

Mildred Pierce (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Vintage

The Postman Always Rings Twice

PAN BOOKS LTD (ENGLAND)

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,Cain’s first novel–the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston, the inspiration for Camus’s The Stranger–is the fever-pitched tale of a drifter who stumbles into a job, into an erotic obsession, and into a murder. Double Indemnity–which followed Postman so quickly, Cain’s readers hardly had a chance to catch their breath–is a tersely narrated story of blind passion, duplicity, and, of course, murder. Mildred Pierce, a work of acute psychological observation and devastating emotional violence, is the tale of a woman with a taste for shiftless men and an unreasoned devotion to her monstrous daughter. All three novels were immortalized in classic Hollywood films. Also included here are five masterful stories–“Pastorale,” “The Baby in the Icebox,” “Dead Man,” “Brush Fire,” “The Girl in the Storm”–that have been out of print for decades.

The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories (Everyman's Library Classics)

Everyman"s Library

DOUBLE INDEMNITY.

MURDER MYSTERY MONTHLY. NY 1943

Black Lizard Books

Double Indemnity

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.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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