A lost short story by James M. Cain, the so-called “poet of the tabloid murder,” was just published for the first time — and this tale of greed, redemption and lust was almost certainly written in ...

NEW YORK — The characters are pure noir: Pat, a “dark, heavily handsome thick-shouldered” young man; Myra, a “cheesecakey” woman whose “thick blonde hair” fell “off her bare head to brilliant brassy ...

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At just 115 pages, James M. Cain’s Double Indemnity is noir distilled down to its darkest, deepest reduction. The story, originally serialized in 1936 and published as a novel in 1943, strikes the ...

James M. Cain Biography James Mallahan Cain (1892–1977) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is considered one of the founders of the hardboiled crime genre.