Double Indemnity by James M. Cain Asian Literature and crackling with tension

and crackling with tension

a reclusive community of women

" - Elif Shafak

or too ambivalent

Double Indemnity by James M. Cain Asian Literature and crackling with tensionJames 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.