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Packed and Loaded: Conversations with James M. Cain by James M Cain 9781608880478
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608880478Author James M CainFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Nimble BooksPublisher Nimble... -
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: $21.43Booksplease 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: $21.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887480454Author David MaddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University... -
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 by James M. Cain 9780679723219
Booksplease Price: $24.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679723219Author James M. CainFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher... -
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... -
The Complete Crime Stories by James M. Cain 9781504011327
Booksplease Price: $42.43Seventeen hardboiled crime stories from the "poet of the tabloid murder" and author of Double Indemnity (Edmund Wilson). They call him Lucky-but he has never had a lucky day in his life. A... -
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: $14.22'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 Voice of James M. Cain: A Biography David Madden 9781493048120
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $35.67James M. Cain was among the prominent member of the "hard-boiled" school of writing that characterized the 1930s and 1940s, one of the masters of the genre that included Dashiell Hammett and Raymond... -
James M. Cain: Hard-Boiled Mythmaker by David Madden 9780810881181
Booksplease Price: $129.85James M. Cain wrote some of the grittiest novels in American literature, including such classics as The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce. James M. Cain: Hard-Boiled... -
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Special Edition) by James M. Cain
Booksplease Price: $18.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593311912Author James M. CainFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Vintage Crime/Black... -
Characters and Plots in the Fiction of James M. Cain by Robert L. Gale 9780786459698
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $60.49A pioneer in ""hard-boiled fiction,"" James Mallahan Cain achieved fame with his first novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice. His Double Indemnity and Mildred Pierce soon followed, as did successful... -
Three by Cain: Serenade, Love's Lovely Counterfeit, The Butterfly by James M. Cain 9780679723233
RRP: $40.95Booksplease Price: $31.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679723233Author James M. CainFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher... -
The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories by James M Cain 9780375414381
Booksplease Price: $50.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375414381Author James M. CainFormat HardbackPage Count 632Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random... -
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs 9780802144348
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144348Author William S. BurroughsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic... -
Tough Luck by Jason Starr
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Mickey Prada is a nice kid. Perhaps too nice. He works in a neighbourhood seafood market in Brooklyn putting fish on ice. He's got a nice girlfriend. He even delayed college a year, to look after his... -
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: $31.20Booksplease Price: $19.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679723226Author James M. CainFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Double Indemnity Richard Schickel 9781805750215
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.11Richard 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 9781496817983
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $146.52Best 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... -
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... -
Double Indemnity: The Complete Screenplay by Billy Wilder 9780520218482
RRP: $44.85Booksplease Price: $38.43On every level - writing, direction, acting - "Double Indemnity" (1944) is a triumph and stands as one of the greatest achievements in Billy Wilder's career. Adapted from the James M. Cain novel by... -
The American Roman Noir: Hammett, Cain and Chandler by William Marling 9780820320816
RRP: $62.30Booksplease Price: $58.27In this text, William Marling reads classic hard-boiled fiction and film in the contexts of narrative theories and American social and cultural history. His theories for the origins of the dark... -
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... -
Philosophy and Fiction: An Introduction to Thinking Through Literature by Schuy R. Weishaar 9781476688473
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $49.12Fiction lies in order to tell the truth and seeks reality through shadows. Philosophy attempts to dispel false realities; it pursues clear understanding of things as they are. While the relation of... -
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 Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir by M. Abbott 9780312294816
RRP: $194.98Booksplease Price: $194.24This book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. The descendent of Nineteenth-century frontier and western heroes, the figure... -
Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks And The Masters Of Noir by Geoffrey O'Brien 9780306807732
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.41Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane, James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, David Goodis , these are a few of the masters of noir responsible for the great lurid paperbacks of the thirties,... -
In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity Frank Krutnik 9780415026307
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.60Taking issue with many orthodox views of Film Noir, Frank Krutnik argues for a reorientation of this compulsively engaging area of Hollywood cultural production. Krutnik recasts the films within a... -
The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir by M. Abbott 9781349387878
RRP: $175.48Booksplease Price: $157.40This book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. The descendent of Nineteenth-century frontier and western heroes, the figure... -
Crazy Love You by Lisa Unger 9781668034460
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668034460Author Lisa UngerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon &... -
Vantage Point: A MacNeice Mystery by Scott Thornley 9781487003326
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.89The highly anticipated fourth instalment in the critically acclaimed MacNeice Mysteries series finds MacNeice and his team on the hunt for a sophisticated serial killer who draws his inspiration from... -
The Cinema of the Coen Brothers: Hard-Boiled Entertainments by Jeffrey Adams
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $37.71The 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... -
Stories for Men: An Anthology by Charles Grayson
RRP: $66.28Booksplease Price: $62.05Can the reading public imagine a less likely but more needed book than Stories for Men - a seventy-five-year- old anthology edited by Charles Grayson - written in an age when such a title would... -
Shock Treatment by James Hadley Chase 9781471903380
Booksplease Price: $23.93Terry Regan, who'd dropped into the Delaneys' cabin up at Blue Jay Lake to sell them a TV set, took in the situation at a glance. Gilda was young and stunningly attractive. Jack Delany was a vicious,... -
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...