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How Cain Mastered Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction

James M. Cain is an internationally acclaimed American novelist whose lurid, violent, sexually charged and relentlessly paced melodramas about crime...

The Mark of Cain: The Effect of Hardboiled Noir on American TV and Film

Bitter, seedy, brooding, cynical — all words that can be used to describe the unforgettable Double Indemnity, a giant of...

Cain’s femme fatales

James M. Cain had a talent for creating compelling characters in his stories. They are intelligent, ambitious, impulsive, and inscrutable....

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The Los Angeles Times published 14 things you may not know about James M. Cain, in honor of his birthday...

Rare James M. Cain Story ‘Blackmail’ Published for First Time

In May 2023, literary detective and editor-in-chief of the Strand Magazine, Andrew Gulli, announced the discovery and release of an...

The Search for Cain’s lost novel: The Cocktail Waitress

Cain worked on his final novel, The Cocktail Waitress, up until his death in 1977 but it was never published....

The Wit, Wisdom, and Noirs of James M. Cain

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Recent News

How Cain Mastered Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction

The Mark of Cain: The Effect of Hardboiled Noir on American TV and Film

Cain’s femme fatales

14 Things You May Not Know About James M. Cain

Rare James M. Cain Story ‘Blackmail’ Published for First Time

The Search for Cain’s lost novel: The Cocktail Waitress

The Wit, Wisdom, and Noirs of James M. Cain

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