Double Indemnity

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published: 05/14/1989
ISBN: 9780679723226
Pages: 115
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.22w x 0.34d

Review Citations: Booklist 06/01/2000 pg. 1853
Entertainment Weekly 06/24/2011 pg. 77