James M. Cain worked lot of time as a journalist until he wrote groundbreaking noir novel Double Indemnity. Drawing inspiration from real life cases he was researching in his papers he compiled thrilling story of love, betrayal and corruption. Thus he started new genre of crime fiction, so called 'roman noir' where bad guys aren't always punished and nothing is black and white. Unlike so many modern novels stretching over four hundred pages this one has only hundred and twenty, so it's a quick read, but not in a 'page turner' sense. Each chapter has to be read carefully. Of course many of you have already seen movie adaptation by Billy Wilder but it is different story when you read this book, and ending is quite different.
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