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Here is Cain at his peak, in a new novel that dealt. inevitably, with violent emotions and violent deeds. Here passion and murder are the ingredients of the tale, and what Cain does with them makes this his most terrific adventure in suspense. The hero is a young Confederate spy in Virginia City, the great mining town, at the height of its boom period. The woman for whom he conceives a wild and desperate infatuation is one of the camp’s sporting girls — in every way a dangerous creature, greedy, conscienceless, and utterly irresistible. The story of his fight to possess her, set against that brawling and turbulent scene, produces another unlaydownable book. Mr. Cain writes: “I have tried to put real human beings before the reader, to explain, as plausibly as I can, how a gunman got that way, what the prostitute was doing there, why the mine-owner was a bit of a heel, and so on. Also, I have tried to present the life of the time as it was, and as few people nowadays seem to realize it was.”

DRAW ONE— That’s waitress lingo. Means a cup of coffee. It’s a part of a language that Carrie Selden had spoken for a long time. Carrie was a hash-slinger. Lots of big business men ate at Karb’s just to watch her trim figure moving by their tables. Grant Harris was one of them — he watched, waited and was married by Carrie. The millionaire and the waitress. It was a newspaper field-day. In spite of everything she was called, Carrie felt she had to set the record straight. This is her candid story — the intimate details of the life of Carrie Selden Harris, who asks you to pass judgment on her only after you’ve read her story.

Galatea may seem strange Cain to those who link him with California and violent stories out of the West. But to those who knew him earlier, particularly his origins in Annapolis and his life in the counties near by, it will hardly come as a surprise. Cain returned to southern Maryland to find it startlingly changed. Cogitating this transformation from oxcarts, scrub woods, and plug tobacco to grand boulevards, lumber, and big auction rooms, he found himself inventing a novel about it. The result is Galatea, the story of Holly Valenty, a girl who is a product of the old dispensation, but who succumbs to the temptations of the new, a story with all the Cain magic — brutal, shocking, yet tender and believable.

От любви до ненависти один шаг. Герои романов Кейна знают это не понаслышке. Ради новой счастливой жизни они готовы поддаться ослепляющей страсти и нарушить все табу общественной морали – даже если требуется убить человека. Но приведет это решение к долгожданной свободе или к краю пропасти? «Почтальон всегда звонит дважды» и «Двойная страховка» – истории о любви, предательстве и коварном бумеранге судьбы, ставшие классикой жанра нуар.

A beautiful Hollywood movie star, her glamor girl sister, and a handsome sheriff who has an eye for a pretty woman, provide the explosive triangle around which James M. Cane has built this latest story of violence and desire. The first appear in print of this exciting and provocative novel is literary treat you will not want to miss and in only the usual two or three dollars, it is priced to the range of everyone. The flood of vigorous emotions, of love so deadly that it slays, packs “Sinful Woman” from start to smashing finish. You can’t lay it down once the striking Sylvia Shoreham, vivid movie star, hits the Reno gambling halls for a show-down with Baron Adlerkkreutz, her hot-blooded, woman-killer husband. You’ll be gripped by Sheriff Lucas as his mad desire for Sylvia runs head-on into his oath to uphold law and order; you’ll be caught by the Hollywood conniving of Dimmy Spiro, Sylvia’s producer, and by the colorful impact of Cain’s with other boldly drawn characters. And throughout the whole book you’ll be held at fever pitch by the deadly puzzle of Sylvia’s sister Hazel, whose knockout beauty underlines every scene with the tension of a fast-ticking bomb.

James M. Cain, acclaimed as one of the modern masters of mystery, has once again woven a forceful tale that challenges people’s basic morality with temptations they are powerless to resist.　 Davey Howell is content in his rural Ohio solitude; the static broadcasts of the country radio stations are his only steady contact with the “outside” world. But then a hijacker plummets into his life, along with $100,000 cash ransom and a beautiful stewardess as hostage. Suddenly, Davey’s sense of “the good life” faces its toughest challenge — with the hijacker dead, who would know if the money were lost or stolen? RAINBOW’S END bears all the trademarks that have made James Cain one of our most influential writers. The money: $100,000 is more than Davey dreamed of making in his entire lifetime. The woman: the worldly stewardess is like none Davey has ever known. The momentum: Cain is the master, whirling hours into instants and back again. And finally, the man alone: Cain isolates Davey, leaving him to make his own decisions within this hoard of temptation. This is the dramatic force of James M. Cain, named by Camus as “the greatest American writer.”

CARD-GAMBLING AND LOVE GAMBOLING IN THE CITY OF GAY DIVORCEES Jane Delavan had dark, red hair and plenty of shape of a nice, refined kind. To Ed Horner she was only a little fancy flirtation under the Nevada moon, but he found some peculiar circumstances developing when Jane’s husband, Tom Delavan, himself came to town, followed very shortly afterwards by his first wife, the beautiful but jealous Lady Sperry. Ed wondered what kind of game Jane Delavan was playing with him, leading him on as she was? And why should Lady Sperry take a heated interest in him of a sudden? What were the cause of secret midnight callers roaming at will through hotel bedrooms? Suddenly Ed Horner found himself slowly being ringed about by a group of hard-hating, highly emotional people who all had motives that involved them in a case of murder and the JEALOUS WOMAN. Adding to the fast growing list of James M. Cain novels, JEALOUS WOMAN is fiction that rates high for tight-packed action and a set of colorful, trigger-tense characters — a sure guarantee of the reader’s interest to the final smashing climax.

This is a distinguished publishing event. Career in C Major and Other Fiction is the final anthology of previously uncollected short fiction by James M. Cain, the renowned author of Mildred Pierce, The Post matt Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and many other works. Cain died in 1977 at age eighty-five. Cain's novels made him, along with Hammett and Chandler, one of the best-selling American writers of the twentieth century. This is a book filled with delights. Included are the first hardcover reprint of Career in C Major, the classic Cain comic novel that has been out of print for many years; short fiction from Redbook, Liberty, and Esquire; and dramatic dialogues from The American Mercury. Career in C Major is just the main course of a feast that includes page after page of marvelously entertaining stories and dialogues. The selections have been chosen and illuminated with insightful commentaries by Roy Hoopes. Career in C Major and Other Fiction will occupy a place on bookshelves for many years to come.

Here are the swift pace, the hard, crisp prose, the almost unbearably tense dramatic situations which are typical of James Cain. But here also are a deeper view of life, a bigger subject, and a group of characters closer to the average reader’s experience than Mr. Cain has ever given us before. Here, in other words, is his most substantial and most ambitious novel. It is the story of a woman, her daughter, and her two husbands. At twenty- eight she was a “grass widow” without a cent. She learned to work; she created a business and built it into a notable success. Along the way she acquired two lovers, one of whom became her second husband. But none of that was important. What was important was her daughter Veda — the lovely, haughty, greedy, cruel child who knew what she wanted and got it. The relations between mother and daughter, between mother and husband and lover, between husband and daughter, intermingle and fuse into a shattering climax. Nine years have passed, and in this terrific moment all the characters are at last stripped and revealed, all the motives — good and evil — hared, all the ways of life finally chosen. It is a scene no one will easily forget.

MIGNON is James M. Cain’s first novel in nearly ten years. Readers of previous bestsellers such as The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce will find Mignon Fournet, the heroine of the new novel, as remarkable a creation as the women in those two celebrated books. Mignon is a beautiful young widow who, with her father, has come to New Orleans at the close of the Civil War in the hopes of improving their war-reduced fortunes. But the risky trade in contraband cotton has landed her father in jail and Mignon at the hotel room door of Bill Cresap. Cresap, recently discharged from the Union Army for wounds received in battle, has arrived in New Orleans to start a business with a friend. Reluctantly, but irrevocably, Cresap is drawn into the intrigues and dangers which engulf the irresistible Mignon. Also moving among the dark events of those tough, troubled times is a fascinating variety of richly drawn characters. There is Adolphe Landry, Mignon’s enigmatic father; Frank Burke, Landry’s unscrupulous partner; Gippo, Burke’s henchman, more animal than human; and Marie Tremaine, the beautiful, rich, and powerful chatelaine of a notorious New Orleans gambling house. From gaudy New Orleans, the scene shifts up-river to the bloody Red River battle. There, the personal and military dramas are joined. Cresap, in the turbulent actions which follow, finds himself not only involved in the intrigues of desperate men, but the passions of two beautiful women. In an explosion of violence and tragedy, the novel reaches its inevitable climax. Of MIGNON, Mr. Cain says: It is a continuation, in theme, of a previous book, Past All Dishonor, in which the hero is tempted, by his love for a girl, so slight his duty — not much, just a little bit. In MIGNON, Mr. Cain depicts the bafflement of large numbers of men, even in high places, who must wrestle the rules of war and slight them — not much, but a little bit. “Treason,” says Mr. Cain, “doesn’t invite my interest, at least as a narrative theme, being so stark it defies exploration. But its close relative, cheating just little bit, fascinates me. Sometimes, as in Mignon, it even manages to seem quite praiseworthy, which is where the trouble really starts.”

Джеймса Кейна наряду с Дэшилом Хэмметом и Раймондом Чандлером некоторые критики называют одним из основателей «крутой» школы в классическом американском детективе. В настоящем издании собраны «засветившиеся» в списках бестселлеров романы Кейна «Почтальон всегда звонит дважды», «Двойная страховка», «Серенада», «Бабочка» и «Растратчик», а также ряд рассказов. «Все беды от женщин» — так можно было бы охарактеризовать сюжетную схему, которую автор использовал в большинстве своих книг. Однако у Кейна никогда до конца не ясно, кто кого искушает, ангел перед нами или демон в ангельском обличье. Любовные отношения между героями романов Кейна — это всегда огонь, страсть, кровь и… предательство.

Любители детективов найдут в романах Кейна захватывающую интригу, напряженное действие и возможность проявить свои дедуктивные способности; поклонники любовных романов погрузятся в пучины темной страсти; не оставят равнодушными произведения Дж. Кейна и увлекающихся психологической — «серьезной» литературой.

Роман «Почтальон всегда звонит дважды» публикуется в новом переводе.

СОДЕРЖАНИЕ:

Почтальон всегда звонит дважды.

Двойная страховка.

Серенада.

Растратчик.

Бабочка.

Рассказы:

— Младенец в холодильнике,

— Труп на рельсах,

— Девушка под дождем,

— Побег,

— Пастораль.

In The Moth James M. Cain has produced a novel of broad dimensions which will delight and surprise his vast following. It is his largest canvas. His background is the United States from coast to coast. His period spans the last quarter-century. His characters are as diverse as a cross section of the American people. In their story he at last reveals the promise of happiness for a man and his woman. The Moth is the story of John Dillon. It begins in the days when he amazed church congregations with the beauty of his boyish soprano. His rapid development into manhood and his subsequent career are striped with violence and passion. As a young man Dillon fell in love with a very young girl. Accused of leading her astray, he fled his home, losing himself in depression America. He experienced the life of a panhandler and hobo, the terror of a thief, the aching weariness of a fruit-picker, the pride of a successful oilman. He encountered a selfish and beautiful woman. After action in World War II, he was invalided to this country, where at last he found the girl whose image had never left him. The tremendous pace and swift action of Dillon s existence are related in that tightly packed style for which Cain is famous. But the brutality of much of his life is relieved on the unforgettable occasions when-signifying for him what was fine and good — the luna moth appeared before him. It is this symbol which gives us both the title and the theme of James ML Cain’s most important novel.

Mandy Vernick is a girl with a problem. She is abused by her stepfather (with her mother’s tacit approval), and discovers that her mother is having an affair. With nowhere to turn, Mandy runs away from home, hoping to find her father in Baltimore. Vernick denies that he is Mandy’s father. Desperate and confused, the voluptuous six- teen-year-old becomes involved in a bank robbery that ends with three men dead. The Enchanted Isle has a bittersweet ending but, before Cain allows us to relax and share in Mandy’s joy, he strips the facade from a family’s carefully built house of lies and in the process keeps the reader wondering what will happen next... and to whom.