The Postman Always Rings Twice
A drifter, a roadside diner, a wife, and a plan that was never going to hold.
Frank Chambers drifts into a roadside diner in California, takes a job, and within pages he and the owner’s wife are planning to kill him. Cain tells it in a hundred-odd pages of first-person narration so lean it reads like a confession, which structurally it is. Banned in Boston on publication in 1934 and never out of print since.
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Max Allan Collins
Cain examines the lines between lust and love, and greed and murder, and does so while creating a lean prose style second to none.
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