Double Indemnity

Name: Double Indemnity
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: James Cain
ISBN: 9780060854546

Author: James Cain

Narrator: James Naughton

Unabridged: 3 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/31/2005

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Hard-boiled, Suspense & Thriller, Crime

Synopsis

Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1936, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir.Performed by James Naughton

About James Cain

One of the most celebrated and notorious crime writers of all time, JAMES M. CAIN launched his career with the publication of two back-to-back masterpieces—The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity—selling millions of copies worldwide and inspiring classic movies. Cain continued with an unmatched run of noir novels including Mildred Pierce which inspired both the Academy Award-winning film starring Joan Crawford and the Emmy-winning HBO miniseries starring Kate Winslet. Cain died in 1977.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper on September 05, 2012

What is it with this James Cain? First, I tried reading The Postman Always Rings Twice to prepare for my civil service exam, but it was all about murder and didn’t have anything at all about postal regulations. Then I read Double Indemnity to try and become an insurance agent and once again, it’s no......more

Goodreads review by Alejandro on August 14, 2015

Double as good! BOOK TO FILM I watched the film adaptation of Double Indemnity and I loved it! I think that the look of the actress Barbara Stanwyck is the very definition of a femme fatale. I am aware of other great examples like Rita Hayworth in Gilda, Lana Turner in The Postman always rings......more

Goodreads review by Glenn on March 23, 2023

The novel begins with first person narrator Walter Huff reflecting back on the sequence of events that started when he remembered a renewal over in Hollywoodland. We read: "That was how I came to this House of Death, that you've been reading about in the papers. It didn't look like a House of Death......more

Goodreads review by Emily May on March 28, 2021

Just as good as everyone always says it is.......more