by James M. Cain · Goldmann · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442059102
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«Doppelte Abfindung» is the suspense novel by James M. Cain, published by Goldmann in 2001 in paperback and in German.
Walter Huff, an insurance salesman, lets himself be drawn in by the beautiful and calculating Phyllis Nirdlinger. Together they hatch a criminal plan: that her husband die in a train accident so they can collect $50,000 from an accident policy. What they hadn't foreseen is that feelings would end up wrecking everything.
This edition is a new translation of «Double Indemnity», the original novel by James M. Cain adapted to film by Billy Wilder in 1944.
For readers of classic crime fiction and for those who want to discover the novel on which Billy Wilder's movie «Double Indemnity» is based.
James Mallahan Cain was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is widely regarded as a progenitor of the hardboiled school of American crime fiction.
