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Serenade by James M. Cain
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43'Cain has established a formidable reputation of furious pace, harsh and masterful realism, tough, raw speech right out of the mouths of the people' SATURDAY REVIEWSerenade is the story of the... -
Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64A true crime masterpiece, and highly acclaimed 1940s movie'DOUBLE INDEMNITY is among the finest of all American novels, regardless of genre or style' LA TIMES'Cain is the master' Tom WolfeDOUBLE... -
James M. Cain by David Madden
RRP: $31.10Booksplease Price: $21.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887480454Author David MaddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint < -
Cocktail Waitress by James M. Cain 9781781160343
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.80Following her husband's death in an accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet. At the job she encounters two men who... -
Mildred Pierce James M. Cain 9780752882789
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64'Cain was not just a great hard-boiled novelist but a great novelist, period ... To read MILDRED PIERCE now is to experience a double vision, in which we confront both how much and how little things... -
James M Cain Cookbook by Roy Hoopes 9780887480478
RRP: $31.10Booksplease Price: $20.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887480478Author Roy HoopesFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint -
James M. Cain and the American Authors' Authority by Richard Fine
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70The 1940s offered ever-increasing outlets for writers in book publishing, magazines, radio, film, and the nascent television industry, but the standard rights arrangements often prevented writers... -
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain 9780752864365
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.34'One of the great crime novels of all time' Tony Parsons, Express'Nobody has ever quite pulled it off the way Cain does, not Hemingway, and not even Raymond Chandler' Tom Wolfe'It is no accident that... -
The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories by James M Cain 9780375414381
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $48.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375414381Author James M. CainFormat HardbackPage Count 632Imprint -
Dirty Tricks by Michael Dibdin
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Karen and I on the sofa, Karen and I in the back seat of the BMW, Karen and I at the river, up the alley, down the garden, round the corner, in the pub. Our movements are furtive, frantic and... -
Double Indemnity by J. Cain
RRP: $33.15Booksplease Price: $19.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679723226Author James M. CainFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Double Indemnity Richard Schickel 9781805750215
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.52Richard Schickel's study of Billy Wilder's 1944 noir classic Double Indemnity traces in fascinating detail the genesis and realisation of the film: its literary origins in James M. Cain's hard-boiled... -
Kill My Mother: A Graphic Novel Jules Feiffer 9781631491061
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $29.09The legendary Jules Feiffer presents his first noir graphic novel. Spiced with the deft humour for which Feiffer is renowned, Kill My Mother centres on five formidable women linked fatefully and... -
The Films of Douglas Sirk: Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions by Tom Ryan 9781496822376
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Best known for powerful 1950s melodramas like All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, The Tarnished Angels, and Imitation of Life, Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) brought to all his work a distinctive... -
Hunter's Trap by C. Smith 9780875651620
Booksplease Price: $37.23In Hunter's Trap, Smith's fifth novel, he creates a brooding tale of psychological suspense set on the film noir landscape of James M. Cain and Jim Thompson. On the night of the vernal equniox 1930,... -
The Fight for Space by Roberto Ontiveros 9781622882267
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.53In his debut collection, The Fight for Space, Roberto Ontiveros explores the modes of art and obsession with eleven stories that run from fabulist comedy to surrealist noir. The tales-focusing on... -
Christian Petzold by Jaimey Fisher
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.48In eleven feature films across two decades, Christian Petzold has established himself as the most critically celebrated director in contemporary Germany. The best-known and most influential member of... -
The Cinema of the Coen Brothers: Hard-Boiled Entertainments by Jeffrey Adams
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $38.10The films of the Coen brothers have become a contemporary cultural phenomenon. Highly acclaimed and commercially successful, over the years their movies have attracted increasingly larger audiences... -
Mission to Venice by James Hadley Chase
Booksplease Price: $29.70Sudden death lurks along the canals of Venice ...That's what Don Micklem, millionaire American playboy on the trail of a disappearing one-time British agent, discovers the hard way. Has his quarry... -
From the Moment They Met It Was Murder: Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir by Alain Silver 9780762484935
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $30.21The behind-the-scenes story of the quintessential film noir and cult classic, Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity-its true crime origins and crucial impact on film history-is told for the first time in... -
Want to Stay Alive? by James Hadley Chase
Booksplease Price: $27.28Poke Tohola, a Seminole Indian, is on to a smart racket. His formula is that fear is the key that unlocks the wallets and handbags of the rich. But Chuck, a cop-killer at 18, and Meg, beddable but... -
On the Ropes: A Novel James Vance 9780393351224
Booksplease Price: $27.48Kings in Disguise (ISBN 978 0 393 32848 6) won two Eisner Awards and was hailed by The Guardian as one of the ten best graphic novels of all time. This highly anticipated sequel tells the story of a... -
The Gravediggers' Bread by Frederic Dard
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.10Putting dead bodies in the ground for a living could give anyone ideas... Blaise is out of work and down on his luck when a chance encounter with a beautiful blonde has him hooked. He'll do... -
The Best American Noir of the Century by James Ellroy
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45A magisterial anthology of American noir writing in the 20th century by the best-selling author of the LA Quartet: The Black Dahlia. The Big Nowhere , LA Confidential and White Jazz. In his... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 1 Philip Gourevitch 9781841959252
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49From William Faulkner's famous reply, 'The writer's only responsibility is to his art,' to James Salter's confession 'What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish', the... -
Lost Gay Novels: A Reference Guide to Fifty Works from the First Half of the Twentieth Century by Anthony Slide
Booksplease Price: $110.92Searching for an introduction to the shadowy, intriguing world of early 20th century gay-themed fiction? In Lost Gay Novels, respected pop culture historian Anthony Slide resurrects fifty early 20th... -
The Price of Truth: The Journalist Who Defied Military Censors to Report the Fall of Nazi Germany by Richard Fine 9781501765940
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $42.24In The Price of Truth, Richard Fine recounts the intense drama surrounding the German surrender at the end of World War II and the veteran Associated Press journalist Edward Kennedy's controversial... -
American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street by Paula Rabinowitz 9780691173382
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.21"There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes."--a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad (1951) American Pulp tells the story of... -
When Stories Travel: Cross-Cultural Encounters between Fiction and Film by Cristina Della Coletta 9781421403656
RRP: $106.28Booksplease Price: $81.04Adapting fiction into film is, as author Cristina Della Coletta asserts, a transformative encounter that takes place not just across media but across different cultures. In this book, Della Coletta... -
The Getaway by Jim Thompson
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Classic crime novel by acclaimed author Jim Thompson - 'the best suspense writer going, bar none' NEW YORK TIMESThe story of a bank robbery and its aftermath, of cross and double-cross, told with the... -
The Grifters Jim Thompson 9780752879598
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Reissue of a true classic - 'One of the toughest crime novels ever' (Newsweek).'Jim Thompson is the best suspense writer going, bar none' NEW YORK TIMESRoy Dillon is young, good-looking and... -
POP. 1280: As seen on Between the Covers by Jim Thompson 9781398720992
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64With a new introduction by Charlie Higson'Fantastic ... in my book Jim Thompson is still the greatest crime writer' Jo Nesbo'The best suspense writer going, bar none' NEW YORK TIMES'Jim Thompson... -
Waikiki Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture Patrick Moser 9780252045912
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $157.01Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships with Native Hawaiians. Surfing became a central part of what emerged... -
The Killer Inside Me Jim Thompson 9780752879581
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64THE KILLER INSIDE ME has been a cult classic since its first publication in 1952. Also a major motion picture starring Casey Affleck, directed by Michael Winterbottom.'Probably the most chilling and... -
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Sirens by Joseph Knox 9781784162146 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $4.56'Brooding, blistering. Sirens is a remarkable literary thriller, perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and James Lee Burke' AJ Finn, author of The Woman in the WindowWATERSTONES THRILLER OF THE MONTHI... -
Manana by William Hjortsberg 9781497680739
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $28.26The life of an American hippie in Mexico is upended by a gang of ex-cons in this thriller full of "wild surprises" (Carl Hiaasen). All Tod remembers when he wakes up next to a dead prostitute is that... -
Lake County: A Novel by Lori Roy 9781662519932
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $35.02Set in the 1950s, this thriller by Edgar Award-winning author Lori Roy reimagines the life of Marilyn Monroe, tying her fate to a dreamy teenager whose boyfriend runs afoul of the mob.Desperate to... -
River Clyde by Simone Buchholz
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.22Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley travels to Scotland to face the demons of her past, as Hamburg is hit by a major arson attack. Queen of Krimi, Simone Buchholz, returns with the emotive fifth... -
Pimp by Ken Bruen 9781783295692
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $12.95DEALING...PRODUCING...ALL IN A DAY'S WORK FOR A DRUGLORD. OR IN HOLLYWOOD.Ruined and on the lam, former drug kingpin Max Fisher stumbles upon the biggest discovery of his crooked life: a designer... -
My Clavicle: And Other Massive Misalignments Marta Sanz 9781836750017
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06'I'm going to tell you what happened to me and what didn't happen to me. The possibility that nothing happened to me is what's giving me the shakes.' Marta believes she is dying. With the onset of...