(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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.
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In 1997 The Library of America's "Crime Novels: American Noir" gathered, in two volumes, eleven classic works of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s--among them David Goodis's moody and intensely lyrical masterpiece "Down There," adapted by Francois Truffaut for his 1960 film "Shoot the Piano Player." Now, The [...]
Collects:
CRIME NOVELS: AMERICAN NOIR OF THE 1930s & 40s
"The Postman Always Rings Twice" by James M.?Cain
"They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" by Horace McCoy
"Thieves Like Us" by Edward Anderson
"The Big Clock" by Kenneth Fearing
"Nightmare Alley" by William Lindsay Gresham
"I Ma[...]